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...recovery from recession has been fragile and slow - the bloc is only forecast to grow by an anemic 0.7% this year. José Manuel Barroso, the European Commission President, warns that Europe risks a "lost decade" of stagnation and decline if it does not act boldly now to modernize its model of socially inclusive capitalism. The Europe 2020 plan focuses on honing the E.U.'s technological edge, especially in green industries, and on improving higher education. And it sets key targets for E.U. member states, including raising the overall employment rate from 69% to 75%, boosting investment in research...
...hosts encourage us to cackle at the fashion foibles of celebrities, and the same nebulous schadenfreude motivates the compiling of countless Worst Dressed Lists. TV cameras are masterfully positioned to capture deliciously revealing reaction shots; there’s nothing quite like the strained smile of someone who just lost an Oscar...
...inhumane capture and slaughter of dolphins in Taiji, Japan, it uses the methods of fiction storytelling to narrate the filmmakers’ investigation into these abuses. It’s when nonfiction films forget that they owe the audience a narrative that they encounter trouble, a fact that seems lost on many critics and is responsible for the fact that Quick Flix’s documentary shelf remains disproportionately full...
...lost your dorm key again and got a new one made, only to stick your foot in your boot a couple days later and find—what’s this?—the original culprit. What should you do with the extra? Give it to the Harvard Office of Sustainability, which already has raised $75 in that program we told you about back in January...
...little hockey game. Forget about what was at stake; that in Canada, hockey ties together the nation in way that no other sport can even dream of uniting all Americans; that a Canadian win would give the country 14 gold medals, a record haul; that if Canada lost to its overbearing neighbors to the south, on home soil, the streets of Vancouver could have turned perilous...