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...happy times for U.S. workers. The unemployment rate is 6.1%, and cash-strapped companies have been asking workers still lucky enough to have jobs to pay more for health care. So the startling announcement last week that the American economy surged 7.2% in the third quarter--the most torrid rate of quarterly expansion since 1984--has many wondering whether this is, at last, the start of a sustained recovery that might pull workers out of their funk. Until that happens, strapped workers and the unemployed are wondering why, if the growth rate is so high, they feel...
...Bush Administration's treasury secretary, John Snow has HAD the job of selling the President's tax cut and trying to put the best face on rising unemployment. In a week of welcome news--that the economy grew a torrid 7.2% over the summer, the fastest pace since 1984--he spoke with TIME's Adam Zagorin about what lies ahead...
...aforementioned players, Giles and Choi are the best bets to keep up their torrid hitting pace throughout the year. Both players are young and are thought to have (by scouts and others in the know) top major league talent. That said, it is still highly doubtful that either will hit more than 30 home runs this season or finish the year hitting above...
...role in starting half of the Tigers’ pre-Ivy games. Snyder and the team’s returning starters, Wendy Bingham and Melissa Finley, have each posted .500 records thus far. At the plate, First Team All-Ivy first baseman Kristen Del Calvo is off to another torrid start with a .348 average, Finley is hitting a team-best .383 and Snyder has lit up opponents with a .326 pre-Ivy rookie campaign...
...Qaeda. "There are three or four isolated pockets of Ansar on very high ground. We're closing in on them from everywhere we can," says an American commando named Mark, who declines to give his rank or surname. The fire coming down from the craggy peak is torrid. Machineguns rattle from above. Ansar snipers pin down troops, their rounds pinging off rocks and buzzing past heads. In return, Kurdish artillery fires in from the flat plains about 2 miles below. Thick whistles sound uncomfortably overhead as a shell passes the Americans' position. It thwacks into the mountainside...