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...prices of more than $10 a barrel on June 6; China's Shanghai stock market plunged 7.7% on June 10, its steepest drop in a year. While investors and economists are worried about a number of economic headwinds, rising oil prices, said Merrill Lynch in a recent report, "pose the major growth and inflation risk for Asia going forward...
...China in recent years that caters to factory owners anxious to disguise breaches of clients' codes of conduct - illegal overtime, say, or a lack of fire extinguishers on the factory floor. Unscrupulous consultants offer quick fixes before a factory is audited; for a price, they can even pose as a fake management team to convince auditors that a sound leadership structure is in place. Factory owners can also buy computer software that presets the times when workers punch in and out, so no illegal overtime shows up on time cards. Lower-tech tactics, employed across Asia, include keeping double books...
...biggest threats seiches pose is to people walking on piers: surging water may sweep them away. That's what happened on June 26, 1954, when a 10-foot seiche swept eight Chicago fishermen away in what meteorologists say remains the most destructive seiche recorded here. The Great Lakes are particularly vulnerable to seiches because they are the largest enclosed bodies of water in the U.S. Edward Fenelon, an NWS meteorologist in Romeoville, Ill., however, says fewer than three seiches are reported at each of the Great Lakes each year...
...given up on difficult endeavors. Within a week of the publication of this article, I’ll drive to Louisiana to join Teach for America as a high school English teacher in the New Orleans public school system. I am certain that my job will pose an almost infinite number of challenges and require a fair amount of determination. But now that I’ve discarded perseverance as an ideology—sticking it out for the sake of sticking it out—I can see the deeper factors that might justify temporary struggle. In New Orleans...
Everyone knew the 2007 season would pose some unique challenges, but no one foresaw the early-season struggles the Crimson endured, starting with just the third loss to Holy Cross in Murphy’s tenure after Crusader quarterback Dominic Randolph connected on a 40-yard touchdown pass with 19 seconds remaining to steal a 31-28 victory...