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Last fall the nation's 12,000 camps worried that enrollments would plummet, as parents vowed to keep kids home. Trying to ease the panic by calling camps a "safe haven," the industry now hopes that most of last summer's 6.5 million campers will return...
...most bruising power struggle of his career as he tries to secure his legacy by placing his protEgEs on crucial perches before he retires at a year-end Party Congress. Having sold himself as a statesman, he risks tarnishing that image if relations with the world's only superpower plummet like a downed spy plane. "If Jiang can show that relations with the U.S. are in good shape, it will enable him to appoint more of his own men to the top positions," says Cheng Li, a political scientist at Hamilton College in New York State...
...giant asteroid or comet struck the earth, spewing huge amounts of dust and debris into the air. That dust, according to a widely accepted theory first proposed by Nobel laureate Luis Alvarez, was circulated by the winds and enshrouded the earth for months, blocking sunlight and causing temperatures to plummet. As a result, the dinosaurs, and 70% of all other terrestrial species, were wiped...
...panic over bovine spongiform encephalopathy, commonly known as "mad cow" disease, spread all the way to Japan last year, where a handful of cases caused beef sales to plummet. The good news was that researchers using a mathematical model estimated that the brain-wasting BSE variant in humans may max out at 100 cases per year in Britain, ground zero for mad cow, and kill no more than a few thousand people in the coming decade. Feel any better...
...confusion with alcohol in the eveningssometimes. This made sense; or at least it seemed to make more sense than the policies of her top banking firm that asked her to take accounting tests in the immediate days after the attack. In a state of desperation, she watched her scores plummet...