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Still, investors do seem to be more positive about the market. After what was one of the worst months on record, the market, as measured by the S&P 500, has risen 10% in the past week, and was up for most of the day Monday, before ending just a few points down. That's pretty incredible in face of such continued downers as the news Monday that car sales by U.S. automakers dropped by more than 30% in October...
...continue to improve and take the next step,” Donato says. “He’s certainly capable of being a big offensive force for us, and we have high hopes about what he can accomplish.” Though the stakes may have risen for Biega, one of Harvard’s brightest rising stars will still return to the strong work ethic and sense of focus that carried him so far last year. —Staff writer Robert T. Hamlin can be reached at rhamlin@fas.harvard.edu...
...other side of Auckland, Detective Sergeant James Watson has been won over by Key. In a year in which violent crime has risen by 12%, the would-be P.M. has played the tough guy to good effect, winning broad public approval for proposals including boot camp for young offenders and the scrapping of parole for hard-core criminals. "I'm not having, on my watch, people on the streets who've committed heinous crimes," Key told a national television audience. He's also made familiar right-of-center noises on education, foreshadowing national standards for literacy and numeracy, and plain...
...otherwise excellent column, Klein made a significant omission. The reason employer-based insurance is failing is not that employees fail to act in their enlightened self-interest or that employers are "slouching away from that responsibility." Costs have risen to the point that most employers cannot afford to provide insurance, and individuals cannot come up with the $27,000 a family must pay on average for annual coverage. The only long-term solution is to eliminate insurance companies through a national single-payer health plan, or "Medicare for all." Without the profit motive and with Medicare's demonstrated efficiency, enough...
...researchers found that tobacco companies have increased the nicotine content in some brands of moist snuff and have employed different approaches to making snuff more palatable. They also found that marketing efforts have increased, and that moist snuff usage among teens has risen...