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North America's largest building-trades union, the United Brotherhood of Carpenters is a half-million members strong. For tens of thousands of its members, and the millions of Americans who depend on the construction business to make a living, it is a winter of anxiety and discontent. Tim Ahern of Carpenters Local 210 in Fairfield, Connecticut sums up the plight of the construction trades across the nation. "I only worked 20 hours the whole year...
...first half, the love story is pleasantly engaging. Tatum has the body of a football player and the rosebud lips of a perfect new baby; he's tough pretty. As an actor, he has the right air of secrecy to play an intriguing guy with an old knife wound under his eye. In Big Love you think of Seyfried as the smart girl tormented by the polygamy mess her dolt of a father has gotten her mother into, not the pretty girl. But she's seriously glamorized here: with her hair falling in golden waves she's a Breck girl...
...estate, derivatives and bonds. That all came crashing down in the fall of 2008, when the tumbling housing market and rising mortgage defaults caused the credit markets to seize up. In all, Lehman lost more than $32 billion from proprietary trading and principal transactions during the year and a half leading up to the financial crisis and since, according to a TIME analysis of Securities Exchange Commission filings and bankruptcy-court documents. That's nearly double the $18 billion in common equity the firm had in late 2006, just before mortgage bonds started going sour in the beginning stages...
...Miles, Ph.D., an associate professor of exercise sciences at Montana State University, the risk of being infected with the flu virus or a cold will drop with moderate exercise. Another study, done at Appalachian State, found that those who walked at moderate pace for 40 minutes a day reported half the number of sick days taken off from work than those who didn’t exercise at all. It is still cold in Cambridge, so the flu is still a threat on campus, and it seems that regular exercise is key to staying in the classroom...
...confirmed, Hakimullah's death would represent a major victory for both Washington and Islamabad. Pakistan's most wanted man had claimed responsibility for the Dec. 30 suicide bombing by a Jordanian triple agent who killed half a dozen CIA personnel on a base in Afghanistan's Khost province. He had also claimed credit for a series of high-profile terrorist attacks in Pakistan and the ongoing wave of violence across the country that has killed more than 600 people since October...