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...Predictions: You’ll do poorly on your first midterm. You’ll be shocked. You might even cry. And then you’ll wave goodbye to your childish dreams of a perfect GPA. You will be happy to see your parents on Freshman Parents Weekend, and even more excited to see them go home...
...President Mubarak, who has run an iron-fisted police state since 1981 and is meeting President Obama in Washington on Tuesday, is now 81 years old, and the press is buzzing with speculation about imminent succession - most likely by his son, Gamal. While some see the Nile Delta strike wave as nothing more than a fight for daily bread, others say they're a portent of what's to come. (See TIME's video: "Cairo Readies for Obama...
...innovation, like electricity, say, or suitcases with wheels. Yet when Aquino led a sea of yellow-clad supporters to reclaim an election that had been stolen by strongman Ferdinand Marcos, not even the clearest-eyed political sage could have predicted that her actions would be the first crest in wave after wave of citizen-led, nonviolent movements that would reshape the world. (Read "People Power's Philippine Saint: Corazon Aquino...
...interest of goosing the economy and helping automakers, the current program requires new-car purchases and doesn't mandate huge jumps in gas mileage. Happily, the first wave of buyers opted for cars more fuel-efficient than the law demands. The top three sellers in the first week were the Ford Focus, Toyota Corolla and Honda Civic (all made in the U.S. but with lots of foreign parts). Now the turned-in vehicles (the Ford Explorer led the list) are headed for the scrapyard, but only after their engines are snuffed with a solution of liquid glass (sodium silicate...
Just as Americans did with their houses, casino owners borrowed way too much money to build hotels that were way too big. Economists like Yale's Robert Shiller have warned that the next big wave of failures in the U.S. recession will be in commercial real estate - and once again, Las Vegas is headlining. Even worse, the bottom fell out as casino owners were building, so a number of them couldn't replace construction loans with the financing that was once readily available to complete and open hotel-condo-casino projects. Deutsche Bank foreclosed on the $3.9 billion Cosmopolitan Hotel...