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...over the border to bargain hunt, and the unemployment rate hit a 33-year low of 5.8% in October, owing to gains in the natural resource and service sectors. But the world's eighth largest economy has lost 329,800 manufacturing jobs since the Canadian dollar began its marathon climb five years ago. From an all-time low of 62˘ in 2002, the turbocharged loonie shot past the U.S. greenback for the first time in nearly 31 years this September and kept right on soaring. Fueled by record prices for Canadian commodities, a surge in foreign investment and anxiety over...
...scary scenes too. The lions aren't the big problem here; it's the mutants, whom exposure to the virus has made gaunt, pretrenaturally athletic (they can climb tall buildings at several bounds) and as ravenous as any killer carnivore for human flesh. One sequence, in which Neville follows the dog into a dark building and is confronted by the creatures, worked on my nerves with a superior technical and artistic skill set - a mixture of computer beasties and old-fashioned suspense...
...Despite creating ripples in the business world of late, India was nearly last in your competitiveness ranking. This is because India has not bridged the huge gap between the haves and the have-nots. Countries like India should emphasize economic equality so that they can climb the global business ladder. K. Chidanand Kumar, Bangalore, India...
...that isn’t enough to get you to climb to the third floor of the Malkin Athletic Center to see them, maybe it’ll be the intangibles that do. Maybe it’ll be what I’ll chalk up to a little bit of spunk mixed with a little bit of luck...
Over 160 people—from professional climbers to members of the Rugby team dressed in drag—crammed into Lowell basement on Friday and Saturday nights to partake in a free rock climbing event hosted by the Drug and Alcohol Peers Advisors (DAPA). The organization, which reports to the Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Services, paid for students to climb for free in order to provide them with an alternative social activity. “There’s a momentum to go and drink and do the normal party scene,” said Christopher...