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...running. Last year, Halpern made her collegiate debut with four goals against the Crusaders, and came back this year to score a career-high six goals, all of which were unassisted, this time around. “Jess was driving all game,” junior tri-captain Sara Flood said. “She was taking on people left and right, really dominating the entire time.” Halpern scored the first two goals of the game, and freshman Katie Doherty put another tally on the scoreboard with 17:41 left in the first half, putting Harvard...
...governments around the world roll out trillions of dollars in stimulus spending to combat the global recession, debate is raging over whether the flood of money will provide much more than a short-term economic boost and whether much of the cash will ultimately be wasted. Vietnam, which like most Asian countries is being hammered by the downturn, is discovering that even the most direct form of stimulus spending - cash giveaways to citizens - can wind up in the wrong hands...
...There are a lot of people who swallowed their pride and decided they need a paycheck.' ARNOLD JACKSON, associate director for the U.S. Census, on the flood of applications for the 3.8 million jobs available to help conduct the 2010 population survey...
...Senate looks to be on track to pass a bill that sounds almost exactly like what President Barack Obama asked for last month. The measure - now heralded as $780 billion, down from $890 billion - will include about 40% in tax cuts and more than 80% of the spending will flood the faltering economy within the next 18 months. But with just three Republican votes, the bill falls well short of the bipartisan goal Obama worked hard to achieve...
More than 10 million hectares (25 million acres) of wheat, nearly half the country's total winter wheat cropland, are now suffering, the most widespread water shortage since 1951, according to China's Office of State Flood Control and Drought Relief. Beijing has not recorded precipitation since for over four months, the state-run Xinhua news service reported. And across the provinces of Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Anhui, Jiangsu, Shanxi, Shaanxi and Gansu, 4.3 million people and 2 million head of livestock are experiencing water shortages...