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...global rise in swine flu has showed few signs of slowing. Now in 11 countries, the H1N1 flu virus was confirmed on Thursday in the Netherlands and Switzerland; in Canada, cases rose to 27 and in the U.S., the caseload increased to 109 in 11 states, with hundreds of school closures that sent some 160,000 students home. Meanwhile, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said that a new flu pandemic is imminent, yet some pharmacies (in New York City at least) are temporarily running short of the antiviral Tamiflu. So, no one would blame you for feeling scared about...
...benefits of student’s time spent under the Crimson must exceed the costs—both the direct financial cost of attending, pegged at $48,868 for next year, and the indirect opportunity cost of four years that could have been spent working. With tuition continuing to rise faster than the rate of inflation, and no sign of a slowdown in sight, Harvard students should ask the question: how much is their designer degree really worth after their hats are thrown in Tercentenary Theatre...
...political solemnity, Tsotsi and Rendition. The new movie has a sharper look and a smarter film sense, because Hood is surrounded by the sort of artist-technicians who can lend cinematic swank to almost any action picture. But that's now par for the course, and Wolverine doesn't rise above the level of familiar competence...
...Times, develops a few themes: free trade is good. Infrastructure is unsexy but vital. Capital cities are best kept small (making rioting less likely). For the most part, though, he tosses evidence on the table, then walks away. Debunking the supposed link between the Protestant work ethic and the rise of modern capitalism, Beattie notes that "the reality is much more complex"--that any sort of society can choose economic success. He just never says exactly...
...companies have been hit harder by the severity and suddenness of the global economic crisis than Asia's manufacturers. With unemployment on the rise, credit tight, and uncertainty high after the financial meltdown on Wall Street, consumers in the U.S. - Asia's most important customers - slashed their purchases of the toys, blue jeans and flat-panel TV sets churned out by the region's factories. The consequences have been disastrous. Every major economy in the region, from Japan to Singapore, has seen exports contract sharply, usually by eye-popping double-digits. Taiwan registered year-over-year declines of more than...