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This time around, both the U.S. and German economies are flatlining, while that of Japan continues its slow, downward spiral. The Japanese unemployment rate has risen to 5%, while the Nikkei stock market index last week touched lows not seen since 1984. The world's three most powerful engines are out of juice. Worry...
...started out studying the Milky Way and, along with Leo Blitz of the University of Maryland, discovered that our home galaxy is not just a simple spiral of stars and gas but rather a complex construction with warped edges and a bar of stars across the middle. Then he began thinking about dark matter, the invisible stuff that makes up most of the mass of the universe, and realized that Earth should feel a "wind" of particles as it orbits the galaxy--an idea that dark-matter hunters are now testing...
...anyone who could see would be requesting such a volume. Frankly, I hadn’t realized that the “book” I had to read for my internship with Art Education for the Blind would consist of a series of audio tapes and a spiral bound notebook of tactile drawings. Somehow, I had assumed that “Art History Through Touch and Sound” would be a practical guide to finding resources, not the resource itself. After two years of dealing with Harvard’s system of advising, that assumption seemed perfectly reasonable...
...denominated investments. That might help bonds and to a lesser degree stocks, but another consequence would be to thrust the greenback's value even higher, further debilitating manufacturing in the U.S., which has already lost 785,000 jobs in the past 12 months. The record U.S. trade deficit would spiral higher...
...denominated investments. That might help bonds and to a lesser degree stocks, but another consequence would be to thrust the greenback's value even higher, further debilitating manufacturing in the U.S., which has already lost 785,000 jobs in the past 12 months. The record U.S. trade deficit would spiral higher...