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...perspectives varied according to geography. "The U.S. economy is on steroids," said a worried Pascal Blanque, chief economist at the French bank Credit Agricole. Blanque fears an America bulking up on dangerous deficits, a lax monetary policy and the falling dollar. "The European economy is on tranquilizers," retorted Laura D'Andrea Tyson, dean of the London Business School and former chair of the Council of Economic Advisers in the Clinton Administration. She argues that Europe is both too complacent about its weak growth and strong common currency, and too slow to boost its international competitiveness in response to surging...
...over the Big Red (10-15, 6-8 Ivy), but the visitors from Ithaca played spoiler to Harvard’s plans by battling back and capturing the match, 3-2 (20-30, 28-30, 30-26, 30-28, 19-17) in an extended fifth game. Seniors Suzie Trimble, Laura Mahon, and Mimi Hanley all had big days while wearing their Crimson uniforms for the last time. Trimble recorded 24 kills on 43 attempts with only three errors to post a dazzling .488 hitting percentage, while Mahon notched 22 kills and Hanley added 16 of her own. Game...
...idea was born because so many fans left instructions before they died to have their ashes scattered on the playing field of La Bombonera (the "candy box," as the Boca football stadium in the city of Buenos Aires is known)," says Boca press officer Laura Acosta. Inspiration also came from a widespread custom of club fans of adorning the gravesites of relatives in other cemeteries with Boca-inspired decorations...
...will attempt suicide before age 20. Should you opt for an experimental medical treatment that might prevent it? Parents of children whom experts call gender variant are faced with just that question. If a child doesn't identify with his or her biological sex, the onset of puberty, says Laura Amato, a youth-suicide counselor who runs an online transgender support group, can make that child feel like "part of a real-life horror story ... because the wrong parts are changing...
Betty Ford Former First Lady and founder of the renowned drug-addiction treatment facility in California In light of her recent trip to the United Arab Emirates to raise breast-cancer awareness, Laura Bush is a natural candidate for me. In signing the Memorandum of Understanding with the Health Authority of Abu Dhabi and the Susan G. Komen foundation, she has opened doors for women's health and emphasized the need--and possibility--for all women to be informed about breast cancer...