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...live in a volatile seismic area and was troubled by your comment that funding volcano-monitoring is "wasteful." What makes some spending superfluous? Caitlin Kidder, KENT, WASH...
...since 2004, dropped in virtually every sector this year. The most dramatic decline was, not surprisingly, in finance, which hemorrhaged 71% of expected job openings. Less expected but equally troubling is the 37% decline in hiring for professional services, which include accounting and engineering. "Poor hiring estimates from this area speak to the depth of the recession in the college labor market for the class of 2009," the report says. (See TIME's special report on paying for colleges...
...Wachusett Mountain Ski Area in Princeton, Mass., has access to some 7 million people who live about an hour away in the Boston; Hartford, Conn.; and Providence, R.I., regions. And skiers are staying local: skier days at Wachusett have risen 4%. "We are drawing the people that make a spontaneous decision to go skiing," says Tom Meyers, the marketing chief at Wachusett...
...We’re now trying to understand the basis for...this huge difference between individual responses to the diet. Why are some people so successful at weight loss [than others], despite the same commitment?” Sacks said. “It’s an area that hasn’t been studied well.” The researchers added that they believe their findings will leave a lasting impact on the scientific community. “We’ve shown that any reasonable diet can provide weight loss, as long as caloric intake is reduced...
...cost for private investors to buy them off the banks' balance sheets. At the same time, the Federal Reserve, whose chairman, Ben Bernanke, took his own public flogging on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, is unveiling an aggressive plan to stimulate consumer, small-business, auto and college borrowing, an area of the economy that has in large part been frozen since the fall...