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Read "Domestic-Terrorism Incidents Hit a Peak...
...people who carpool to giving away free croissants and newspapers on public transport - have had little effect. The government estimates that a typical rush hour has about 270 kilometers of traffic jams, although the GPS maker TomTom often records up to 1,000 kilometers of back-ups during peak hours. (See a TIME video of a GPS tour of the Berlin Wall...
...what are the sages saying now that 2010 is just around the corner? Plenty. Next year we'll see oil hit $90 a barrel (per Goldman Sachs), unemployment peak at 10.5% (Fitch Ratings), the value of the dollar with respect to the euro and yen hit bottom (Deutsche Bank), 10-year Treasuries yield more than 4% (Bank of America Merrill Lynch) and small-cap value stocks outperform all other categories (Richard Bernstein Capital Management). As for the stock market more broadly? Strategists at UBS expect gains well into the double-digits. The CEO of PIMCO sees a 10% drop...
...mixing with young people who are that the peak of their intellectual activity, and so I will [gain] a lot of intellectual energy from them, as well as giving them anything I can give them,” Pertile said. “It’s a marvelous prospect...
...popular, she is leaving the council partly because she is tired of the scandals that have rocked the city lately. Her departure is a significant moment in the history of Detroit, the largest majority-black city in America. In the 1950s, when Detroit's population reached its 2 million peak, nearly 1.6 million white people lived here. In 1990, though whites were still represented in several major elected posts, they comprised only about 20% of the population. Now, whites make up barely 8% of the city's estimated 912,000 residents. (See pictures of the remains of Detroit...