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That was the bittersweet assessment of TIME's European Board of Economists at its meeting in the Swiss banking center of Zurich. Hans Mast, a University of Zurich lecturer and executive vice president of Crédit Suisse, pointed to Western Europe's estimated trade surplus of $25 billion this year, compared with $10 billion a year ago, as evidence that an export boom is propelling most of the growth. Western Europe this year is expected to have a surplus of $30 billion in trade with...
...were going to fly the Palestinian flag at half mast in the Science Center yard both to commemorate [Arafat] and as a symbol of awareness of what is going on in Palestine,” said Erol N. Gulay ’05, who founded the group in 2002 and was in charge of organizing the event...
...American flag outside the Spee’s 76 Mount Auburn Street headquarters stood at half-mast last weekend, presumably mourning George W. Bush’s re-election. Yeah, totally—how could this country vote for such a cokehead? . . . In his new book I Am Charlotte Simmons, Tom Wolfe takes on the contemporary college culture of boozing, sex, hard drugs, and selfish hedonism at a campus that he says resembles “Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Duke and a few other places rolled into one.” Thanks for the shoutout...
...March 11, I expected to see and hear expressions of solidarity toward the Spanish. Acknowledgement of what had happened that morning—a moment of silence at the beginning of class, flags at half-mast, something. At least at Harvard, we had no moment of silence, no mention of the tragedy, no American flag at half-mast. Only Schoenhof’s, the foreign bookstore on Mount Auburn St., made a gesture by draping their Spanish flag at half-mast. So much for international community—only a foreign bookstore had taken the time to acknowledge 200 dead...
...most likely culprits this time around are the glial cells, whose job is to nourish and communicate with the neurons. Researchers have discovered that glial cells can also act a lot like the mast cells of the skin, producing inflammatory cytokines that call additional immune cells into action. "The glial cells are trying to return the brain to a normal state," explains Linda Van Eldik, a neurobiologist at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. "But for some reason, in neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's, the process seems to be out of control. You get chronic glial activation, which...