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...When the feds let the Post and the Rocky merge business operations in 2001, the latter was officially designated the "failing paper." After that, the Rocky tried to stage a comeback, even winning a few Pulitzer Prizes. But its circulation, like the Post's, dwindled. By the time Scripps pulled the plug, the subscriber rolls stood at 210,000, about even with the Post...
...recession is still at a stage where for every person hired in the economy, ten may be fired. The liberating aspect of this is that companies now know that the markets for almost all goods and services will be down for a very long time. There are few illusions left that economic activity will be robust again in the second half...
...accumulated over their evolutionary history clash with their modern environments, according to Professor of Anthropology Daniel E. Lieberman ’86, who gave a speech at the Geological Lecture Hall last night. Audience members lined up along the hall’s back wall as Lieberman took the stage and began his lecture, “Survival of the Swiftest, Smartest or Fattest? Human Evolution 150 Years After Darwin.” “What happened in human evolution? Are humans now evolving? What will happen in human evolution?” Lieberman asked his captive audience...
...some 26%, however, there is no help. David Young, 58, a trucker from North Carolina, is one of them. Since a 2007 diagnosis of stage IV kidney cancer, a rare disease, Young is struggling to maintain his employer-based insurance through a COBRA program - his premiums are now $1,332 a month, which consumes most of his Social Security disability benefits of about $1,500 a month, benefits that are too high to qualify for Medicaid. "I will be honest with you," Young says. "I've got a lot of friends who are so good to my family...
Clinton is setting the stage for Obama's first visit to Europe as President next month, which includes a meeting with all 27 E.U. leaders in Prague as well as a London summit of the G-20, which gathers the world's major economies, and NATO's 60th anniversary summit in Strasbourg and Baden-Baden. "There is an overarching theme to the trip to Brussels, which is the reconnection of the United States with Europe and really a sense of consolidating this enormous political goodwill on both sides of the Atlantic," interim Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Daniel...