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Wednesday's stronger-than-expected data on durable-goods orders (up 3.4% in February, but from a January number that had been revised downward) was a "slim silver lining on the horizon," UniCredit Research economist Harm Bandholz wrote in a note to clients. But, he was quick to point out, "investment and exports continue to plummet." (Read "How to Know When the Economy Is Turning...
...housing industry is comatose, yet even that has a silver lining. We have a moment to pause and reflect before we begin building again. When big-time real estate development resumes, we can move beyond the incoherent, anything-goes paradigm of the postwar era and produce more places to live along the lines of the towns and cities everyone instinctively loves, communities designed to become true communities. "The days where we're just building sprawl forever," Obama said in February in South Florida, "those days are over. I think that Republicans, Democrats - everybody recognizes that that's not a smart...
...Others look beyond the bare facts and see the silver lining. Reading about nude hikers, says the tourist board's Kanel, "is so much more fun than reading about the Swiss banks...
...captain Emily Cross, a 2008 Olympic silver medalist with Team USA, won 21 out of 24 matches to qualify for the semifinal in the foil division. Cross lost a gritty 8-7 match to eventual champion Doris Willette of Penn State to finish in third place and earn her third career All-American selection. Cross also represented the fourth Crimson fencer of the tournament to make an event final four, setting a new Harvard fencing record...
...Amid this unease, some see the recently passed federal stimulus package as a much-needed silver lining, promising to pump billions of dollars into scientific research...