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...more tempting than ever to say yes. But whereas even a year ago, folks could tap their home equity to pay off credit card bills, declining home values have cut off that safety valve for many consumers. The result: a recent uptick in customer defaults. Meanwhile industry profits have risen from $27.4 billion in 2003 to $40.7 billion in 2007, according to RK Hammer...
...cruelty at Hallmark/Westland was institutionalized, but its causes were economic. The $133 billion American meat processing and packaging industry has expanded rapidly, as the world’s meat consumption has risen fourfold in the last 50 years. The result is slaughterhouses that mandate a kill every three seconds, and an inspection regime that can’t keep up. Shapiro points out that the simplest way for individuals to stop abuses like those at Hallmark/Westland is to eat less meat. An uncomfortable thought perhaps, but less so than re-watching the video...
This is perhaps most obvious at No. 1, where sophomore Colin West has risen to the challenge of leading his team, putting up a 6-2 record—with his only defeats coming against the Tigers and the Bantams—despite playing against many opponents with more experience...
...thus deepened existing animosity towards America and reinforced the mandate of international jihad. Indeed, according to MIPT data, acts of jihadist terrorism on Western citizens and interests outside of Afghanistan and Iraq have risen by 25 percent since the invasion—a statistic that provides compelling evidence for correlation between America’s heedless interventionism and the recent boom in global terrorism...
...remarks. Simmons—who chairs the School Committee as mayor, a position chosen by the city council from among its own members—pledged to improve communication between the two. “I am looking to certainly close the gap and level of acrimony that has risen between those bodies,” she said. In other business, sophomore school committee members Patricia M. Nolan ’80 and Luc D. Schuster made a motion to discuss at later date the possibility of integrating an International Baccalaureate (IB) program into the Cambridge school system...