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At the same time, I have also seldom seen the Chinese government and business community more unsettled and uncertain. Theirs is an arrogance borne of insecurity. The global financial chaos and China's rocketing global status threw off the meticulous national development schedules carefully crafted by the risk-averse and...
Or take jobs. In early December, the Labor Department's monthly report surprised on the upside - and brought lots of upbeat headlines - with employers reporting only 11,000 jobs lost and the unemployment rate dropping from 10.2% to 10%. A month later, the surprise was in the other direction - unemployment...
Warner walked away at the right time. Though he hasn't implied that injuries drove his decision to retire - Warner will stop playing with a year left on a $23 million contract - he is no doubt thinking about his long-term health. In December, Warner, who has suffered five concussions...
But those high-altitude observations need occasional reality checks from scientists down on the surface. It was during one such on-the-ground research expedition last fall that David Barber, an Arctic climatologist at the University of Manitoba, got an unwelcome surprise. (See pictures of the Arctic.)
In a season when men’s basketball tickets are hot commodities and game results are followed nationally, it may be no surprise that school spirit at Harvard has picked up substantially. But who’s the Crimson’s biggest fan?