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...understandable. All the adorable photos now taking over your friends' Facebook pages can't mask the fact that kids are expensive. TIME's Nancy Gibbs recently estimated that it costs parents an average of $221,000 to raise a child to age 17. That large economic investment is one reason that birth rates have historically fluctuated with the economy - the U.S. experienced significant dips during the Great Depression and in the inflationary years of the 1970s.(Read "The Economic Benefits of Marriage: A Closing...
...huge force on the field.” Another key contributor in yesterday’s game was sophomore goalkeeper Austin Harms, who recorded his third shutout of the season. Harms broke into the starting 11 last year as a freshman and has been a major reason for the undefeated start to the year. Harms made three saves to preserve the victory. But Harms was far from alone in keeping New Hampshire off the scoresheet. The Crimson has allowed only two goals this season and has retained the philosophy that a stellar defense will win games. Harms did not face...
...Christians? That's it. [Megachurch pastor] Bill Hybels was right two years ago when he released a study about the people coming into his church. It turned out he had been great at recruiting people, but they hadn't grown and matured once they were there. He had every reason to be really concerned about the methodology of his own church. If you go to his church now, you'll see a lot more teaching going on, a lot more discipleship...
...nation, had no requirements under that pact - and rarely seemed interested in stepping up to its responsibilities within the U.N. climate-change process. While the standoff between the U.S. and China - over who needed to cut carbon emissions and who needed to pay for it - has been the main reason for the deadlock in global climate negotiations over the past few years, both countries deserved blame for failing to take the lead internationally...
...legitimacy of the regime. "Stoking nationalism by demonizing foreign pressure worked [for Ahmadinejad] before," says a French Foreign Ministry official who asks not to be named, "but this time Ahmadinejad is getting nothing - either on the nuclear issue or by blaming foreign powers for the antiregime protests." For that reason, the official shares Moisi's view that domestic unrest in Iran is more likely to weaken Tehran's defiance of international calls to end its uranium-enrichment program than it is to rally support. And at the end of the day, he notes, any contrast between Obama and Sarkozy...