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...home, a significant impact of the European slowdown is likely to be a rise in unemployment. The number of jobless in the E.U. dropped sharply between 2005 and 2007 and then flattened out at 25-year lows. But the latest statistics from France, Ireland, the U.K. and some other countries show that the unemployment rate is starting to pick up again. The IMF, which has slashed its growth forecast for the euro-zone countries for 2009 to a negligible 0.2%, predicts that the percentage of jobless in those 15 countries will jump above 8%. Worst hit will be Spain, where...
...Lowdown: With its diversity of perspectives and voices, this collection provides a uniquely intimate glimpse into a disease that is either sterilized by statistics or ignored altogether. Each story reveals a government and culture that, like so many other nations, still denies HIV's impact. Yet even with its pages filled with so much injustice and pain, the book also contains its fair share of triumphant moments. An HIV-positive doctor who fought for - and won - his constitutional right to marry a "negative" woman; a group of HIV-positive children who found a home when no one else would take...
...badly the real economy is hit: how many people will lose their jobs, how many businesses will close, how many banks will fail. Everyone from Paulson on down acknowledges that those numbers will rise dramatically in the coming months. But the latest plan is meant to lessen the impact. As Paulson said this morning, "Today's actions are not what we ever wanted to do, but today's actions are what we must do to restore confidence in our financial system...
...Because local officials have wide latitude in interpreting election laws that vary from state to state, misunderstandings - or misinformation - could have an even greater impact this year than in 2004, given the anticipated bulge in student turnout. Most of the trouble comes from nailing down where college students should be counted as residents if they attend school in one state but go home to another during the holidays. The Supreme Court's position is clear: a 1979 ruling found that all students have the right to vote where they attend college. But local officials often make students travel a rocky...
...further complicated by a legal dispute between abortion opponents and supporters over the relative meanings of the Illinois legislation and a similar federal law that President Bush signed in 2002. The federal law was unopposed by pro-choice groups, because they did not believe it would have any legal impact on abortion availability, which is generally governed by state law. "There was never any federal abortion law," explains Sutherland. "So when they passed that law, it did not change anything. It was just a statement...