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...almost twice the euro-zone average. "Since Spain entered the euro zone, its high inflation rate has been consistently weakening its competitiveness," says the o.e.c.d.'s Giorno. Largely as a result, Spain's net foreign balance has dived over recent years. There's no easy solution in sight. Higher interest rates would reduce inflation, but could at the same time greatly endanger the already stretched household budgets of Spanish consumers. Some 90% of Spanish mortgages are variable-rate loans, so an interest hike would cause real pain. Squaring that circle would be a difficult task for any central bank...
...sight of an elderly person with a stoop sets people to wondering, "Will that happen to me?" Up to now, there has been no way to answer that question. Though osteoporosis afflicts about 25 million Americans, most of them women, the disease offers no early symptoms. Usually it is not diagnosed until after age 50, when a victim suffers a fracture. But that may soon change. Last week a team of Australian scientists reported that they have identified a single gene that appears to put people at very high risk of developing osteoporosis...
...just a very gifted and optimistic and friendly person.”On the second day of freshman week, Cuse met Christiane Hart ’81, who was walking up to her room in Grays Hall two floors above his.“It was love at first sight,” Cuse says of Christiane, whom he married four years after graduation. According to Christiane, they began dating freshman year up until the end of that summer. The two rekindled their relationship after graduation.Christiane recalls how she and Cuse once decided on a whim in the spring...
...promising naval officer, Holman lost his sight at age 25 after a mysterious illness. That was, to say the least, a calamity. Braille had not been invented yet. The blind were institutionalized and infantilized, expected to lead celibate lives mooching or begging or doing menial work. None of which appealed to our hero. Seeking a cure (not only for his blindness but also for agonizing rheumatism), he set off alone for southern France...
...traveled, he made a strange discovery: he felt better. Soon he realized he wouldn't, maybe couldn't, stop traveling. He never got his sight back, but when he was on the move he felt different--healthy, dignified, whole. "I see things better with my feet," he said, with characteristic good humor...