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...lost in February, the biggest decline in four years, after economists predicted a gain of 25,000 $200 billion Amount the U.S. Federal Reserve pledged to inject into the banking system, prompting a March 11 market rally that saw the Dow Jones industrial average surge 417 points - its biggest one-day gain in five years...
...vehicle is the new and helter-skelter Twenty20. For those not enamored of cricket, the game comes in three forms: stupefying (the traditional Test match, which can last five days and still not produce a result); slightly less stupefying (one-day cricket, in which scoring rates are quicker and matches continue into the night); and passably exciting (Twenty20, in which batsmen are pretty much obliged to try to belt every ball out of the park). An odd thing about the IPL is that, until recently, Indians didn't much like Twenty20 and were leading the way in trying to jazz...
...PBHA offers 72 different programs to undergraduates, according to the organization’s Web site. Fraternities and sororities have social service arms, and even some final clubs are hopping on the “comm serve” bandwagon, adding various one-day service events into their social calendars...
...This past fall,” she says, PBHA “did a Day of Service, a university-wide project day with a lot of different projects, including a field day at Mission Hill and river cleanup. When a graduate student council member approached PBHA, they wanted to do those one-day, feel-good, paint-a-mural type projects, and we got back to them and said, ‘That’s not really what we’re about...
...it’s not only the one-day projects that have this problem. Long-term service programs can cause equal harm. Tutoring programs in particular can be risky because students sometimes sever ties with children they have tutored for a semester or year...