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...Henderson also had the bad luck to have several deals blow up in his face. Entrepreneur Roger Penske walked away from an agreement to buy Saturn because he couldn't find anyone to supply him with cars, forcing GM to close the division...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Fritz Henderson Is Out as GM's CEO | 12/2/2009 | See Source »

Looking to turn its luck around, the Crimson will have extra motivation to defeat the Bears. Although Harvard and Brown tied both their regular season matches last year, the Bears have had a recent history of comebacks against the Crimson. Last March, Brown went into ECAC playoffs with a 13-game losing streak, but managed to shut out fifth-seeded Harvard...

Author: By Lauren S. Packard, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Looks To Snap Drought | 12/1/2009 | See Source »

...Public Health thinks should receive priority for vaccinations to get one. Pregnant? Under 18? Have a kid that's younger than 6 months old or a chronic medical condition? Work in healthcare or emergency services? Unless you fit at least one of these categories, you're out of luck...

Author: By Sanghyeon Park, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Swine Flu Vaccines Are Here! For Some People... | 12/1/2009 | See Source »

...group of explorers passing through lost 15,000 pesos where the town now stands. The place was called 15,000 because that's what the explorers would ask for every time they came back to search for the cash. The town's name has become a synonym for bad luck. But malevolence may be at the origin as well. Fernando Farro, a local farmer, says Quince Mil takes its name from the amount of money the Peruvian government gave Russian fortune-seekers at the turn of the 20th century to eliminate Amazonian tribes and open the area for sugar plantations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How a Little Town in Peru Is Becoming a Hotspot | 11/26/2009 | See Source »

What Went Wrong So here's the big question: Why? Why did so much bad stuff happen in this decade? Was it just rotten luck or something more? Sure, some of it was simply randomness, but I think a strong case can be made that it was more than just chance that got things so bollixed up. (See TIME's special "Out of Work in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The '00s: Goodbye (at Last) to the Decade from Hell | 11/24/2009 | See Source »

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