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...raincoats, it turns out, have holes in them. With the chances for a global recession increasing, it's becoming clear that not even the world's fastest-growing major economy can avoid a pronounced slowdown. Any remaining hopes to the contrary were dashed recently when China's National Bureau of Statistics released the country's latest economic data: in the third quarter, GDP growth had slipped to 9%, the slowest quarterly pace since 2003. Meanwhile, estimates for 2009 growth are being slashed to as low as 8%, which would be a dramatic deceleration from last year's 12% rate...
...first varsity eight placed sixth overall and third among collegiate crews with a time of 17:36.954 for the 5K race.“I think we were hoping to place a little better than we had, but that being said, for the 1V…this is the fastest we’ve done the course,” lightweight captain Rebekah Kharrazi said. “The conditions were kind of rocky at points, which means we’re getting faster, getting better, and that’s pretty exciting.”The Crimson...
...Michelle Guerette’s race the day before [ours],” Howard said. “It was such a great race to watch.”At the mid-point of the course Guerette was in fifth place, but her last two splits were the fastest of all the competitors, bringing her to within a hair’s breadth of the Bulgarian victor with a time of 7:22.78.Behind her success lies another story of accomplishment. For Butt, this was not the first time advising an Olympic athlete. He has coached athletes in each...
...mobile telephones are almost as likely to survive home-budget cuts as cable TV - who stands to gain more market share than Google? Mobile search queries are just starting to explode, said Schmidt. Though he declined to give numbers, he said: "the compound growth rate is one of the fastest-growing things in the company." That's a pretty big statement at Google. And remember that we're at the earliest stages of this particular revolution. The first Google phone is just coming to market after...
...many Pentecostals are there? Pentecostalism is the fastest-growing Christian tradition, but it is also a diverse religious movement, so the numbers vary by definition. The World Christian Encyclopedia, however, estimates that 500 million Christians worldwide are Pentecostal, making the tradition second only to Catholicism in overall Christian numbers. Pentecostalism is now more dominant than Catholicism in South America, and it is rapidly spreading throughout Asia and Africa as well. In 30 years, Pentecostals have increased their share of the global Christian population from 6% to 25%. In the U.S., the Assemblies of God is the largest Pentecostal denomination with...