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...there are few signs that inflation will be rising anytime soon. The Consumer Price Index fell 0.2% in July and was down about 2% this past year. That's not inflation; that's the opposite. And while the economy seems to be recovering, it is still slow going. Unemployment continues to climb. Inflation, however, typically occurs when the economy is hot - the result of too many buyers for too few goods. Many think it will be months or years before the economy gains that much steam again. "Our prediction is that core inflation will not pick up until 2011," says...
...Rogers, an eighth grader at the K-12 Bronxville School in Bronxville, N.Y., was starting for the varsity boys’ soccer team, and some argued that it was too much, too soon. But with the Broncos down, 2-0, to North Salem in his first game, Rogers provided his rebuttal, seamlessly transferring a high pass from his chest to his foot and burying the ball in the bottom right corner...
...organization. One of his recent projects for the Center looked into the benefits of dispensing the common antiviral drug Tamiflu to individuals at high-risk of getting the H1N1 virus before flu cases begin coming in droves. “I hope that our results will soon be used to advise policy makers to make decisions,” Goldstein said. But the HSPH center aims to reach even farther, according to Lipsitch. He said that he hoped the Center will also actively educate the next generation of “data-savvy modelers” by offering graduate courses...
...Farrell and Munadi were captured by Taliban gunmen on Sept. 5 while reporting on the aftermath of a NATO air strike on two hijacked fuel tankers. The strike killed more than 90 Afghans and stoked outrage about the frequent deaths of Afghan civilians in coalition air attacks. Soon after the pair were grabbed, their newspaper opened up channels to Taliban commanders in Kunduz, the province in northern Afghanistan where the hostage-taking occurred. Officials from the International Committee for the Red Cross were in direct contact with the captors, according to a source familiar with the negotiations, as were sympathetic...
...Hours before the British raid, Munadi was allowed to place a cell-phone call to his worried parents to reassure them that he and Farrell would soon be released. When the British commandos made their surprise attack on the house where the pair were being held, the two men rushed out. Munadi died in the firefight, shouting, "Journalist! Journalist!" Farrell recounted to his Times colleagues in Kabul. "He was lying in the same position as he fell," Farrell said. "That's all I know. I saw him go down in front of me. He did not move. He's dead...