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...Japan's grew by 2.2% in March from the month before, leading Merrill Lynch economists to speculate that "it is possible that exports are bottoming." Most importantly, China's exports rose 7.6% in March from February, after six straight months of contraction. "While exports growth is likely to remain weak in the coming months," Goldman Sachs economists Yu Song and Helen Qiao commented about China, "we believe the worst sequential slowdown probably is behind...
...however, says that so far the virus appears to have stayed relatively stable during the chains of transmission, so it may not be mutating much. Still, the virus's current relatively weak state does not guarantee that it won't return later, much more virulent - which is exactly what happened in the 1918 flu pandemic that killed at least 50 million people worldwide. As the flu season comes to an end in the northern hemisphere, it may lead to a natural petering out of new swine-flu cases in the U.S. But the strain may continue to circulate aggressively...
...many fears about the swine flu outbreak. It is not simply that it could cause the death of thousands or in the case of a pandemic, perhaps millions. Other fears are economic in nature based on the reality that tens of millions of very sick people would drive a weak global economy into a depression...
...will know whether the swine flu news caused both the physicians working for the government and the homeland security experts to look once again at what else a weak economy could survive. There is an answer and it is that the economy can't take much more...
Forty-three years ago, this magazine published a stark cover with the words "Is God Dead?" stamped in red against an inky black background. The accompanying article predicted that secularization, science and urbanization would eliminate the need for religious belief and institutions before long; in modern society, only the weak and uneducated would persist in their faith. Yet rumors of religion's demise turned out to be premature. Over the past few years, neo-atheists like Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens have taken up the cry again, encouraged by studies showing that the percentage of Americans who report no religious...