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...Brussels Plumbing a Downturn's Depths The economic crisis is hitting the E.U. even harder than its economists predicted in January. According to a new European Commission forecast, the "E.U. is not spared" from the "deepest and most widespread recession in the postwar era." European economies will continue to contract, with unemployment expected to reach nearly 11% by 2010. The report says that despite government bailouts and bank-stabilization plans, the E.U.'s economic situation is "exceptionally uncertain...
...than a conventional stopper - no struggling to hold the heavy bottle as you twist, no worrying that you'll take someone's eye out with the cork - but it still delivers that satisfying pop upon opening. It's a minirevolution in a region hitherto unswayed by the widespread embrace of screw caps and other deviations from cork closures...
...Hammonds for creating working groups with student representatives, I encourage the administration to think more broadly about student participation. Going forward, students are concerned that they will continue to be left out of the process as further cost-saving plans are announced, and the administration must publicly address the widespread belief that, over the summer, numerous additional cuts will be made to staff, faculty, and student life...
...costing $100 million, with $110 million for comprehensive sex education, for a net savings of $90 million. While the savings involved are small, the policy change is commendable. Abstinence-only sex education programs have been repeatedly shown to be ineffective, misleading, and even bigoted, while comprehensive programs have seen widespread success. Study after study has shown abstinence-only programs have almost no impact on teens’ sexual behavior. One, commissioned by Congress and conducted by Mathematica Policy Research over the course of nine years, found that students receiving abstinence-only education had sex no later than those...
...malnourishment is at the state and local level. Yesterday’s Washington Post reports how widespread layoffs and curtailment of services by state and local governments are accelerating in spite of the $135 billion dollar “stabilization fund” that is being funneled to the states from the stimulus package (a fund cut by more than $40 billion to win the support of the three Republican senators who voted for cloture). The worst is yet to come. The executive director of the National Governors Association has testified that states are facing a $200 billion deficit over...