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Also, despite the messes in the mortgage market and elsewhere, many remain optimistic that the financial industry in the U.S., unlike, say, auto-manufacturing, will rebound. As troubled large banks have shed employees, a number of smaller firms and international competitors have moved in to snap up workers. And Keith Leggett, chief economist of the American Bankers Association, says new banks are continuing to be formed, even as other fail...
...characteristics of strings three years ago, but ITF head of science Stuart Miller says he's not sure why. One theory is that far from "biting" the ball, as many players describe it, the strings are "slippery" - when the ball pulls the strings out of their gridded alignment, they snap back quickly, propelling the ball's rotation. (See pictures of Pete Sampras...
...weren’t able to put that together.” After losing the first game of the twinbill to eventual Ivy League champion Cornell, 3-0, in its Ancient Eight home opener, Harvard stormed back to edge the Big Red, 6-5, in the nightcap to snap Cornell’s 15-game winning streak. Harvard then split a pair with defending league champion Princeton the next day.The Crimson faltered in its Ivy North opener, getting swept by Yale, but responded by sweeping the Bulldogs two days later and picking up three crucial division wins against Brown...
...development and growth of technology has had some unexpected and unpleasant side effects. One is the death of privacy. People with cell phones snap pictures and take videos of strangers. Webcams make online dating harder. Those seeking romance find it much more difficult to lie about their ages...
...meeting the criteria for mental illness at some point in their lives—and those who were fine at the beginning of the study were not necessarily the ones who were doing well at the end of their lives. So those high-achievers who do all their reading, snap up all the departmental prizes and fellowships, and ruin your curve? They’re not set for life after...