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...Often people are confused about the severity of getting the flu because the term is thrown around to describe a bad cold. The reality is more sobering: Flu symptoms can last weeks and are generally much more severe and incapacitating than common colds...
...current love-in with the state will be short-lived. Every time there has been a perceived crisis of capitalism in recent decades, the government's economic role has swelled. But inevitably, this process gets thrown into reverse and the free market stages a rousing comeback. That's because governments can screw up economies just as effectively - in fact, more effectively - than free markets...
...Since that year, though, there has apparently been exactly one stimulating pre-Game corroboree, which came in 2005. The Crimson recap quotes football coach Tim Murphy as stunned that disinterested undergraduates had thrown together the event, and generally conveys a confused introduction to school spirit in all its Caligulan, stuffed-bulldog-shredding fervor. Justin H. Haan ’05, then fun czar, was triumphal, proclaiming his organization as “all about…reviving a Harvard tradition...
...news from China in recent weeks has been dire. Strikes and protests - some of them violent and involving as many as ten thousand people - are reported almost daily. Millions of workers are being thrown out of their jobs, and economic indicators seem to presage more gloom, with electricity production for industry falling 4% in October, the first time it has declined in a decade. Even the country's seemingly insatiable thirst for oil to fuel its decades' long boom seems to be fading: China's national oil company said late in November that demand had declined "sharply" in recent months...
...said in an interview after the show that some students had crawled under the stage to get out of the crowd and were not hurt. In an effort to control the crowd, organizers took the stage repeatedly, asking students to step back—only to have glow sticks thrown at them. Pararas at one point included expletives in his call for students to move away from the stage. Gillis ended up curtailing his performance because of the failed attempts to control the crowd. After the announcement that the concert was ending, the DJ apologized and said that...