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...notes Christakis. Compare those figures with the 100 people who are killed yearly by lightning, the 45,000 who die in car crashes and the 1,300 who are killed in gun accidents. As a society, Christakis says, our priorities have become seriously skewed, and it's largely a result of fear. "My interest is in understanding [the reaction to nut allergies] as a spread of anxiety," he says...
...last budget. America’s trade has increased by 60 percent under President Bush, following a more than quadrupling of the number of free trade agreements in place since Bush took office. The president has done an admirable job under trying worldwide economic circumstances, and as a result America’s 2008 Gross Domestic Product growth was higher than that of the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, or Japan, as well as the average for advanced economies, according to International Monetary Fund projections. President Bush has also made an unprecedented effort to reach beyond our borders...
...Jantzen and Caputo and a technical fall from Peppelman (13-6) as Minnesota dominated the top two weights to seal a win.MIDLAND CHAMPIONSHIPSCaputo, Jantzen, Peppelman, and Desena traveled to Northwestern’s Ryan-Welch Arena, taking on the nation’s best grapplers.Caputo enjoyed the best result for Harvard and a personal-best fourth place at Midlands, but the small squad struggled to make an overall impact, settling for 21st in the 47-team field.“[The Championships] could have gone better,” Caputo said. “Overall, we?...
...Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) announced 1,000 new audits of employers suspected of employing illegal immigrants. This followed a July announcement of audits of 654 companies, which included reviews of more than 85,000 employee records and the discovery of more than 14,000 suspect documents. As a result of the crackdown, thousands of undocumented workers were fired from their jobs. (Read a report card on Obama's first year in office...
...Israeli military officials tell TIME that one soldier was killed and some 30 Israelis were wounded. Half the injuries were the result of an Israeli mine-clearing operation that went awry. Other soldiers were hurt in mortar fire from Hamas militants. Palestinian sources say 30 locals have been killed since the beginning of the ground offensive on Jan. 3. That brings the death toll to 485 Palestinians and four Israelis since Dec. 27, when Israel began its aerial strikes in an effort to deter militants from launching more missiles into southern Israel. (See pictures of the beginning of Israel...