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...producers have already suffered tight margins for the past two years, according to Ward and Iverson. The price of feed skyrocketed amid a rally in the prices of agricultural products, up until the recent slump in demand for pork. For example, soybeans recently set their seven-month high in futures trading on the Chicago Board of Trade...
That may sound dramatic but consider this: in 2008, Italy's tourism revenues fell by 5%, the first drop in seven years. The slump has already translated into a loss of $5.2 billion and at least 150,000 jobs...
...anyone who may have come in contact with the country's first swine flu patient. By 5 p.m. on May 3, more than 100 passengers on the same China Eastern Airlines flight to Hong Kong had been located in Shanghai, Beijing, Guangdong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang and put under seven-day medical observation...
...evening at the movies was just that: an A feature and a B feature, buttressed by selected short subjects. In the first years of sound, dozens of vaudeville acts achieved their only immortality. Blacks rarely had prominent roles in feature films, but Ethel Waters, Bessie Smith and a seven-year-old Sammy Davis starred in shorts. TCM runs Robert Benchley and Joe McDoakes comedy shorts and Fitzpatrick travelogs. The weirdest series: MGM's early-'30s Dogville Comedies, one-reel movie parodies (The Dogway Melody, The Big Dog House, Trader Hound), in which pooches were dressed up and made to walk...
...Souter had been a federal appeals court judge in Boston for just three months when Bush plucked him out of relative obscurity. Before that he had spent seven years on the New Hampshire state supreme court and 10 in the state attorney general's office. Neither job gave him much opportunity to set down his views on divisive issues like abortion rights, affirmative action and gun control. When Justice Thurgood Marshall, another of the court liberals, was asked what he knew about Souter, all he could say was: "Never heard...