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...wife Svetlana (Victoria J. Benjamin ’12) decides not to wait idly in Russia while her husband embarks on an affair and instead pays a visit to the couple. Florence’s missing father vacillates between supposedly being alive and being presumed dead faster than you can say, “World Communist Conspiracy.” At one point, it is even implied that he may actually work...
Influenza is a disease of modernity: the faster people travel around the world, the easier it is for the virus to spread. There's no evidence of influenza among Native Americans until after Europeans visited North America. Pandemic outbreaks occur about once every hundred years, although it's hard track outbreaks that occurred before the 18th century due to incomplete medical records. The disease hits big cities first - because that's where people generally travel - and then spreads to surrounding areas. The last major pandemic occurred in 1918 when an Influenza A strain jumped from birds to humans and killed...
...without any set limits.”Records continued to fall on Saturday, highlighted by Pickard’s 400-yard individual medley swim. The sophomore cut 11 seconds off of her morning preliminary time to win the B final in 4:14.06. The time was nearly five seconds faster than the previous record. Mills notched her second record by taking first in the C final of the 100-yard butterfly, finishing in 55.04.“It was absolutely amazing to watch her,” Pickard said. “It’s great to know that...
...final trials, proved to be a bit of a wake-up call for the Crimson swimmers. Performing significantly worse than usual in its early rounds, the team’s potential Achilles’ heel was revealed. “One area we definitely need to improve is swimming faster in the morning,” senior Bill Jones said. “We had a big difference between our morning preliminary swims and then our finals.” Even with this weakness, the Harvard men managed to return to Cambridge with significant results, both on the team...
...more of a "monster under our bed," says Michael Pettis, a finance professor at Beijing University, something that people spend too much time worrying about. Economists like Pettis believe - and the data to date suggest - that both consumption and private investment in the U.S. are plunging at a faster rate than government spending is rising. And given that consumers have shut their wallets, the U.S. savings rate is almost certainly headed up as this recession deepens. The result, as former Treasury official Brad Sester points out, is that the overall U.S. demand for capital is diminishing - despite the government...