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...Then McNally finds Lin for the layup. What a game he's having. Crimson's largest lead of the game. Harvard 46, Yale...
...eight-hour drive south. Like so many other states over the past three decades, as the nation's prison population has exploded from 307,000 to 1.6 million, New York has come to see incarceration as a major source of employment. The corrections department is the state's largest agency, employing more than 31,000 people at 70 institutions; at $40,000 per inmate, the state spends $2.5 billion a year. (See pictures of crime in Middle America...
...warned this week that the U.S. recession is deepening and Japan's Prime Minister Taro Aso said there is "no bottom in sight" for his sinking country, many investors turned to China for a measure of hope. There have been glimmers of stability recently in the world's third-largest economy, and Asian stock markets briefly climbed midweek amid reports that Beijing would announce additional stimulus measures on top of the $586 billion it has already said it will spend to revive its slowing economy...
...says Ben Simpfendorfer, a Hong Kong-based China economist for the Royal Bank of Scotland. "Almost half of what it imports is related to export processing. A large share of the remainder is commodities. It imports little for its own consumption. That befits its status as the world's largest manufacturing center...
...money to be treated take the pregnancy to term. Although the fertility rate has fallen considerably in Brazil (from 6.1 children in 1960 to about 2 today), 1 in 3 pregnancies is unwanted, according to Dr. Jefferson Drezett, head of the Hospital Perola Byington, Latin America's largest women's health clinic. Meanwhile, 1 in 7 Brazilian women between the ages of 15 and 19 is a mother, and the average age at which women have their first child has fallen to 21, from 22.4 in 1996, according to a government-funded study. (See pictures of America's purity ball...