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...group fell 16% compared to 18-year-olds, and the rate of births also increased, by 4%. But the rate of second-trimester abortions rose 34% among this group, suggesting that girls who pursued abortions waited until their 18th birthday to sidestep the law - a result that may not cheer anti-abortion activists who might otherwise be heartened by the survey's findings...
...Crimson. Her top-shelf strike in the NCAA Final against Minnesota last spring was a game-tying laser beam. OLYMPIAN SIGHTINGSHarvard’s three inactive Olympians—Julie Chu, Caitlin Cahow, and Sarah Vaillancourt—were all on hand at Bright Center yesterday to cheer on their teammates. The trio took the year off from school to participate in the Games in Turin, but were on campus just days after their trip to Italy to lend support to the Crimson in its bid to keep its season alive against Clarkson. The squad, for its part, found their...
...from clear that energy consolidation benefits the European economy or the consumer. Yes, theoretically it's an improvement if energy suppliers can easily shift their gas or electricity around the region. But the market needs enough competitive players to make it work. So while Brussels might cheer consolidation in some sectors - cross-border banking, for example - in others, like utilities, it's more of a headache. Remember the deregulated U.S. market of the late '90s, when a handful of big utilities, Enron among them, were able to dominate, sending prices skyward? Kroes admitted last month that high industry concentration...
...became a priority. So for a firm like E.ON, already committed to keeping a lid on its reliance on Russian gas, teaming up with Endesa - which, analysts say, will gradually buy more gas as new gas-fired power plants are built in Spain - would offer its customers something to cheer. "The consumer benefits when the security of supply is increased," points out Nils Machemehl, energy analyst at investment bank M.M. Warburg in Hamburg. "And that would be the case here." Sounds great. But mergers have an odd way of not living up to their architects' expectations, and the energy sector...
Hanley and his crew sit behind a long table in the basement of the Loeb Drama Center. In the long stretches of idleness, they worry about turnout for "Chicago," although rumors that "everyone" was talking about their show in Annenberg seem to cheer the gang’s spirits...