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...other hope on the horizon is 2010. Right now, companies are anticipating raising salaries an average of 2.7% next year. Of course, if the fledgling economic recovery doesn't stick, that could change quickly. When Hewitt ran its survey in the summer of 2008, companies thought 2009 raises would come in at 3.8% - a far cry from the 1.8% we were left with...
...soundproof walls, a PowerPoint slide flashed the human toll of previous epidemic flus: more than 600,000 Americans died in the 1918 pandemic; 70,000 "excess" deaths resulted from the Asian flu in 1957; and there were 34,000 deaths after the Hong Kong flu hit in 1968. Next to the 2009-10 H1N1 pandemic, the screens showed nothing but a series of question marks. The punctuation was designed to make a larger point. As a senior official in charge of responding to the crisis later told TIME, "You are going to see a spike in deaths." (See pictures...
...because I was too distracted by all the trappings AT&T Park has to offer. In fact, it was the only game that I left before the end of the ninth because I was too interested in the surrounding scenery. Well that and the fact that the woman sitting next to me in the stands was wearing a mask. Swine flu? No thank...
Following the success of their truck (they have bookings for private parties into 2010), Case and Estreller are now at work developing their next architecturally inspired food project: perhaps an experimental supper club or even a line of Popsicles made to resemble famous buildings. "The name of our umbrella company is Farchitecture," says Estreller, who didn't study architecture but currently works in low-income housing development. "Coolhaus is just one of our projects. There will definitely be other projects." Future Frank Lloyd Wrights may want to take note: perhaps you should study food service instead...
...though relatively lulled - and most of it, say locals, is perpetrated by political parties that have militia forces and are not shy about using arms against their rivals. The parties, of course, mostly form along sectarian lines. On July 31, five Shi'ite mosques in Baghdad were attacked. The next day it was a Sunni mosque. (See a photographer's diary of the Iraq...