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...University of Texas at Austin. The more long term unemployed there are already competing for jobs with long résumés, the harder it is for first timers with no work experience to get the job, thereby tossing them into the pool and sustaining the high rate. (See "Great Depression 2.0: Tracing the Meltdown...
...judge from the spiking numbers, those efforts may be having an effect. Despite criticism from the right that the stimulus was a waste and risked adding to government jobs, not private-sector ones, the unexpected drop in overall rates came with only an additional 7,000 jobs in the government sector. But July's indications of improvements do little to ease some economists' fears about long-term unemployment now that 1 in 3 unemployed persons has been looking for work for 27 weeks or more. Galbraith of the University of Texas at Austin believes that some workers have intentionally left...
...ever since the first case of H1N1 flu was reported in Mexico last March, the Obama Administration has been girding for a difficult fall and winter, which may see millions getting sick, overwhelmed hospitals, rolling closures of schools, disruption of workplaces, canceled public events and a death rate no one can predict. "We just don't know the magnitude of this," says Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, who has been working throughout the summer to prepare schools. "The unknown - that's what you worry about...
...Amid an interior of beige and white, coolly accented by ebony tables and white onyx cutlery, French chef Laurent Gras gives seafood a new sense of immediacy with a menu as precisely executed as it is unconventional. His ingredients are global and first-rate: Maine codfish, Spanish octopus, deepwater snapper from Japan. His dishes are modest in size yet generous in potency. Shrimp tartare is sprinkled with edible pansies and gold dust; a trifle is composed of caviar, salt cod and potato. That snapper is smoked over cherrywood and glistens with apricot oil. See www.l2orestaurant.com. (See 10 things...
...capital punishment appears not to have had much effect. Kenya is so beset by crime that it can be unsafe to walk in Nairobi at night, and carjackings and violent robbery are common. "In Kenya, [the death penalty] has not stopped murder - indeed, the rate has been going up by leaps and bounds - nor has it discouraged violent robbery," The Daily Nation said in an editorial after the decision was announced. There are no current figures for the crime rate in Kenya, but the U.S. State Department says there is a "high rate of crime in all regions of Kenya...