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...have seen uneven application numbers this year. Lance Choy, director of the career development center at Stanford, notes that grad schools were a popular backup a few years ago during the dotcom bust, but applications are flat this year. "Who needs more debt when the job market is looking rather grim?" he says. (Read "Finding a Dream Job: A Little Chaos Theory Helps...
...lousy. Further, in the 30 years the National Ski Areas Association has tracked such data, the industry has sold more than 57 million tickets during just six seasons, each occurring in this decade. "At the end of the day, there's an adage among operators," says Berry. "They'd rather have good snow in a bad economy than bad snow in a good economy." (See pictures of the science of snowflakes...
...with China for natural resources and influence in the developing world. Now, the only reliable component of the equation, economic interdependence, is threatened by the global credit crunch, which is closing off China’s export markets and inducing it to spend more of its yuan at home, rather than in buying up U.S. treasury bonds...
...treatment of employer-provided health benefits, so that they might not be fully deductible for companies that provide them, and would be treated as income for the workers who receive them. Health-care experts say this would have the effect of encouraging more people to buy their insurance individually, rather than getting it where they work. This approach has been criticized by many Democrats - including Obama, when John McCain embraced a version of it during the election campaign - who contend that relying on the individual market would put health-care consumers at a disadvantage to big insurance companies...
...future husband in Syria, unlikely to ever again see her family until there is peace in the Middle East. If Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's handshake with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem at a conference in Egypt on Monday was any portent, that day may come sooner rather than later. (See photos of Syria's mysterious facility that was destroyed by a 2007 airstrike...