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...economy watched global demand slow down, Japan's Nikkei index fell to a 26-year low. Couple this with the appreciation of the yen - which some economists say could strengthen to an exchange rate of 80 to the dollar by the end of next year - and it's little wonder that corporate powerhouses like Toyota, Honda and Sony have seen profits dive. Royal Bank of Scotland Japan chief economist Junko Nishioka says that over the past two months, she has grown increasingly pessimistic. She sees Japan recording at least two years of negative growth, the first time that has happened...
...trickle into the net.“In [overtime], it’s sort of one and done—you don’t really have time to recover,” Clark said.The game ended with celebrations from Penn, while the Crimson players were left to wonder what went wrong.“We showed that we were clearly the better team,” Akpan said. “But in these games—with the championship on the line—it’s not about how you play or how it looks. It?...
...some economists wonder why buying up credit card and auto loan debt is any better or easier to do than buying up mortgage bonds. In fact, when it comes to credit card debt it could be riskier way to use taxpayer money. That's because credit card debt unlike mortgages is unsecured. If a borrower defaults, there is no house to repossess. What's more, credit card debt, unlike a mortgage, can be wiped away in bankruptcy. (Read "Four Steps to Ending the Foreclosure Crisis...
...suffering from them, your doctor is going to tell you that you've got to make informed decisions about what you eat. If you go and try to get this information in order to make these decisions, it's pretty much impossible. You've got to wonder why you have to do nuclear chemistry to get a very simple answer on how your food is made...
...patient behavior always a concern, I can’t help but think that the show might build ridiculous expectations for a system that is actually broken. Regardless, I’m going to miss Michael Crichton, his books, and “ER,” and I wonder who he got a seat next to in writer’s heaven. —Columnist Andrew F. Nunnelly can be reached at nunnelly@fas.harvard.edu...