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...Canada lost 71,000 jobs in November, most of them in the province of Ontario, whose manufacturing sector has traditionally been a primary source of growth and prosperity. The single biggest monthly drop in a quarter-century is unlikely to be an isolated incident, and compares against 533,000 job losses for the same period...
...music to the ears of most New Yorkers: when the pilot study began in the Bronx, inspectors found active rat signs on 3,100 of the borough's 39,000 properties. Preliminary results now show that 1,250 of those properties are rat-free. That's a 40% drop-off in infestations...
...department is looking into “how we can basically get programs or faculty interested in students studying abroad so it becomes more a part of the undergraduate program.” The department has also altered its requirements, allowing thesis writers in the class of 2010 to drop one of their two junior tutorials. “We’ve been trying to think through how we can make it easier, especially for thesis writers, to go abroad,” Welch says. —Staff writer Noah S. Rayman can be reached at nrayman@fas.harvard.edu...
November broke some economic records, like the biggest drop in same-store sales, the largest decline in home values, and the longest decline in purchases since record keeping began. A record that probably drew less attention, though, was the one-day sales record for a computer game. In a month when, despite holiday shopping, retail sales actually fell 1.8 percent, Blizzard sold 2.8 million copies of their new World of Warcraft expansion, “Wrath of the Lich King,” at $40 a pop and in just...
...After his first semester as president, we had the highest drop-out rate I’ve ever seen,” Flores added, referring to the high turnover rate among UC representatives...