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...some pundits predicted, but the ranks of the long-term unemployed have swelled to levels not seen since 1997, and the number of people working part time because they're unable to find full-time employment has reached a new record. Although the pound has lost a quarter of its value against the dollar since 2008, Britain's global goods deficit actually widened in January, with exports declining 6.9%. A weaker pound means the U.K. has to pay more for imports like fuel, increasing fears of inflation. (See pictures of London...
...that is unexpected and slightly hard to process. (Only four years have passed since she was Fern in Charlotte's Web.) It's that she suggests an inner life for Currie that is both enigmatic and completely sympathetic. She underplays with mastery, revealing Currie as vapid, malleable, ordinary and lost, but at the same time riveting on- and offstage...
President Nicolas Sarkozy's future became a bit less sure following the first round of voting in France's regional elections. Sarkozy's Union for a Popular Movement party, which snagged a surprisingly low 26%, lost by a wide margin to parties on the left; a coalition composed of the Socialist, Europe Ecology and Leftist Front parties took a combined 47%. Pollsters expect a similar result in the second round of voting, which is scheduled for March 21. The elections, held in each of France's 22 regions, are the last contest before Sarkozy's expected 2012 re-election...
...asked that her last name be withheld, says her experience with statin side effects was harrowing. Margaret was in her early 50s and had high cholesterol and diabetes when her doctor put her on statins. Soon after, she says, she forgot how to do basic math and got lost driving to familiar places. But when she described the symptoms, she says, her doctor refused to believe they were related to the drugs. "I felt like I was going crazy," says Margaret, "but within a week or two of stopping the statins, my brain started to work again...
With two outs in the sixth, Sacred Heart’s Mike Drowne hit a high fly ball to left. Harvard junior Sam Franklin seemed to have it squared up, but he lost the ball in the sun and it hit the grass for a double...