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Those fears were abundantly evident in a recent Conference Board report showing that consumer confidence took an unexpected dip, sliding 11 points in February, and the present-situation index, which measures consumers' opinions on current economic conditions, plunged to its lowest level in 27 years. "People are scared," says Herzberg. (See the worst business deals...
...remarkable job of observing methane emissions from land, he says, but they're not very accurate over water. So while he considers Shakhova's data absolutely convincing, he's less convinced that these emissions are necessarily new. "In the context of the global methane cycle, has this been accelerating recently, or has it been going on for some time?" Heimann says. "It may be related to recent Arctic warming, but I don't know." (See the top 10 green ideas...
...first University student and youngest member to be elected to the Council in recent memory, Cheung also said he hopes to create more links between residents and students...
It’s beginning to look like the Fates had it in for Greece. Of all the eurozone countries, it has been hit hardest by the global recession. Even as the rest of the world begins to recover from the recent financial crisis, interest rates on Greek debt have skyrocketed. While the government continues to spend liberally, investors have lost faith that the country will emerge from its economic doldrums...
...writing in response to a recent Crimson editorial regarding remarks made by Martin Kramer, Visiting Fellow at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (“Weatherheading the Storm,” The Crimson Staff, Feb. 24, 2010). Kramer advocated that aid to the population of Gaza be cut in order to curb birthrates and “crack the culture of martyrdom which demands a constant supply of superfluous young...