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...here in Canada," says Jayson Myers, president of Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters, the country's largest trade and industry association. "Our manufacturing and export performance is the worst it's been since the end of World War II." He points to a 30% reduction in manufacturing orders over a six-month period ending in March 2009 and a loss of 221,000 manufacturing jobs in the past 12 months as evidence of the deepening crisis...
Even before the confirmation of a new term for President Ahmadinejad, it was always likely that Iran's response to the months-old invitations to talk from both President Obama and the six negotiating countries (China, France, Germany, Russia, U.K. and U.S.) would be wary and tough...
DIED French tennis player Mathieu Montcourt, 24, who was ranked 119th in the world, had just begun a six-week suspension--for betting on matches in which he did not play--when he was found dead July 7 in Paris. The cause of death was not immediately known...
...great band: Ron on guitar, Hermione on bass, Hagrid on drums (natch) and Harry up front. "We'd kind of been talking about the idea but never done anything," Paul remembers. Joe and Paul proceeded to become this band. In one day, the brothers wrote, rehearsed and performed six songs about life at Hogwarts. The set list included "Platform 9 and ¾" and "Wizard Chess." To solve the personnel issues, or possibly compound them, both brothers appeared as Harry. "We high-fived at the end of the day," Paul says, "and said, 'All right, we're Harry and the Potters...
...example, when Austin's semiconductor industry started tanking in 2000, ACC quickly stripped down its chip-development courses and soon repurposed clean rooms for emerging green technologies. These days, it generally takes about six months of weekend classes to get qualified to be a solar installer, a job that can pay up to $16 an hour. But starting in August, a compressed weekday program - catering to the recently unemployed - will allow students to cram the same courses into just two months. To earn an associate degree focusing on renewable energy - enough prep for a job as a solar-installation-team...