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...With its largest lead of the season, Leone decided to give playing time to the rest of the Harvard squad
...consumers' SUVs. But amid the recession, spending has shrunk dramatically, as debt-laden U.S. consumers are learning to save - and those factories have a lot less to do. During the downturn, the rates at which industrial capacity was being utilized in the U.S. and Japan, the world's two largest economies, plummeted to the lowest levels on record. In China, the world's workshop, tens of thousands of factories making mostly low-end merchandise have shut down...
...college sailing’s largest regatta, the Crimson co-eds were able to keep pace, finishing 13th in a field of 26 schools representing most of New England college sailing...
...recession has its silver linings. According to a forthcoming report by the International Energy Agency, sluggish trade, dwindling industrial output and greener government policies have put global carbon dioxide emissions on track to drop 2.6% in 2009, the largest slide in 40 years. Analysts hope the dip will bolster efforts to reach a new climate pact in Copenhagen in December. But so far, despite repeated calls for action, world leaders have made scant progress toward replacing the Kyoto Protocol, which expires...
...challenge for congressional leaders lies not only in the scope of the legislation, though it would be the largest undertaking by the government since at least 1965, when Medicare and Medicaid passed; it comes also from the delicacy involved in weaving together five separate pieces of legislation - two distinct Senate bills and three from the House. They must both satisfy the competing (and often conflicting) political and ideological interests within their party, and still produce a coherent bill that does not do more harm than good to a health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of the economy...