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...attractiveness as a reserve currency. Confidence in the health of the U.S. economy, and therefore the U.S. dollar, could plunge because of continued large U.S. current-account deficits, an unstable banking sector and a recession-busting, expansionist monetary policy. The budget deficit, which the Congressional Budget Office estimates will reach $1.8 trillion this fiscal year, or 13% of GDP, is reaching heights not seen since World War II. (See the top 10 worst business deals...
...doctors will one day be able to prescribe drugs or other treatments to alleviate persistent itch. "This would produce the relief from itching caused by scratching but without the damage caused by sustained scratching," says Giesler. And that - for those who have had an itch they can't quite reach - would be a minor medical miracle...
...game, only to be revived by freshman Whitney Shaw. As she did the day before, Shaw homered in the first inning of the second game to give the Crimson the lead. She outdid herself this time around, going deep again in the third to put the game out of reach. “I was just coming out, swinging hard,” Shaw said. “We wanted to pick ourselves up from the first game and just really prove to [Princeton] that we weren’t going to lay down and do what...
...double gave Princeton the 1-0 lead. Princeton scored again in the fifth inning, when Connor hit a solo home run to right field.The Crimson got on the board in the bottom of the fifth, when Rouches doubled in O’Hara, who had also doubled to reach base. But Harvard was unable to further close the gap.Princeton increased its lead to 3-1—the game’s final score—on a lead off home run in the sixth inning. Both Princeton’s David Palms and Harvard’s Brent...
...fact, it’s likely that international cooperation to extend humanity’s reach past Low Earth Orbit would help bring about peace here at home, especially given that the major space players would probably be our erstwhile enemies China and Russia. The International Space Station shows that international cooperation is possible, at least on a small scale. Rather than try to leapfrog so far past China that they’ll never catch us, we should instead co-opt them into our plans for planetary exploration and let them help cover costs. It?...