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...Rebecca Kellner, 17, left school early to attend the event. "It's like meeting one of your childhood heroes, even if I just got to see him," she said between gasps. "He was more collected than I thought he was going to be, and that made me more confident that he can do the shows...
...University of Florida who specializes in substance abuse. She and her colleagues wanted to study the effects of a relatively small amount of alcohol, the amount adults - mature adults, that is - might typically consume at dinner or in other social settings where drinking isn't the main event. Researchers tailored the composition of their cocktails - a mixture of medical-grade alcohol and limeade - to the participants' weight and gender, to achieve an average blood-alcohol content of .04%, half the legal driving limit in most states of .08%. Nixon was surprised by the results. "We often want to say that...
...perhaps the best-known protectionist law in history, erected tariff barriers for over 20,000 products after the Wall Street crash in 1929. It may have gotten the lawmakers that passed it reelected, given the short-term boost in domestic demand, but it was a cataclysmic event for the global economy in the medium and long run: Countries soon became entangled in a protectionist race and subsequent trade war that caused American foreign trade (imports and exports) to almost halve. According to Milton Friedman, it created a perfect storm that turned a severe contraction into a depression of global proportions...
...seem like the most celebratory theme to use for a self-titled ‘launch party,’ but the Harvard International Review did just that when it released its Winter 2009 issue last night at a soiree in CGIS cafe. Approximately 40 students gathered for the event, which doubled as a symposium, featuring economics professor Benjamin M. Friedman ’66 as the keynote speaker. Friedman touched on the current trend of corporate layoffs of foreign employees and fielded questions about protectionism, government intervention and China’s rapidly growing economy...
...National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball tournament is probably my favorite sports event of the whole year, perhaps only rivaled by baseball playoffs in October when the Cardinals are involved (2006 yeah yeah!) Take a look at it: four days a week filled with games for 10-12 hours, then 12 more games over four days the next week to the reach the Final Four, capped off with two of the biggest days in sports. Delicious...