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...Crimson will host Brown and Yale next weekend to resume its Ivy schedule. Anything other than a sweep would deal a grim blow to its chances of catching Penn. The Quakers have come close to falling in Ivy play before, as Yale and Dartmouth have both taken them to overtime, but the rest of the league has yet to figure out how to beat them in crunch time...
...sobering to note that more than 400 million people fall ill with malaria each year; of these, up to 3 million die, most of them children. With resistance to once effective antimalarials like chloroquine now widespread in Asia, Africa and South America, the prognosis could not seem more grim. "We're in a desperate situation," says Robert G. Ridley of the Swiss-based Medicines for Malaria Venture...
...news were this grim, at least we'd know where we stand: just haul out the dreaded R word. But our current economic plight isn't (at least yet) as simple as the two quarters of negative economic growth that define a recession. Instead, the indicators are like a glitchy traffic light, flashing red and green and yellow at the same time. The NASDAQ has plunged a portfolio-punishing 50% from its highs in March. But the Labor Department announced last week that new claims for state unemployment insurance were down sharply last month. The Conference Board's Consumer Confidence...
...grim news: Gritta predicts the buyouts will provide a few benefits to consumers in the form of "seamless international travel and more frequent flyer miles." But, he warns, the cons will far outweigh the pros in the long run. "And just try using any of those frequent flyer miles," Gritta says...
...guru, a manufacturer of lesser artists. "I don't know the meaning of life," he once said. "I don't know why we are here. I think life is full of anxieties and fears and tears. It has a lot of grief in it, and it can be very grim. And I do not want to be the one who tries to tell somebody else what life is all about. To me it's a complete mystery...