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WASHINGTON—Barack Hussein Obama was inaugurated as the 44th president of the United States yesterday before a record crowd of onlookers, taking his place in history as the first black commander-in-chief while calling on Americans to join together to confront the deepening financial crisis...
...record-breaking number of more than 29,000 students have applied for spots in Harvard’s class of 2013, up about 5 percent from last year’s 27,462 applicants, the admissions office announced today. With an increase in applicants but the same number of spots available, this year’s admissions season is poised to be even more competitive than last year?...
...troops in Afghanistan from both the U.S. and NATO, the Taliban insurgency, all but defeated in 2001, has grown in strength and capacity. More of the same is not going to be enough: the year 2008 was the mostly deadly for foreign soldiers since the war began, despite the record number of troops...
...traffic has increased markedly during that same period, growing from 310 million airline passengers in 1980 to a record 749 million in 2007, meaning the skies are more crowded for both birds and Airbuses...
...international intellectual-property law, which is currently grabbing public, not to mention legal, attention as many of the icons of the 20th century - from cartoon characters to rock 'n' roll artists - lose copyright protection in Europe. The issue generating the most publicity is Europe's briefer copyright period - record labels and publishing houses argue that it degrades copyright protection in the U.S. by allowing cheap and illegal European CDs and Internet downloads into the American market...