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...Bush may be gathering a bit of a tailwind. Corporate earnings last quarter beat expectations for the first time in years. The Dow is up 10% in six weeks. Consumer confidence has risen. Bush's position is that while people have cause for concern, things aren't so bad, considering. "We've been racked with inflation, scandal, war and emergency," he said. "Yet we're still growing." All of that is true - OK, except for the part about inflation, which is at a four-decade low. Such economic misspeak underscores the difficulty Bush may have preaching on a subject where...
...Letter Writing Project” at the Whitney Museum of American Art, “The Sleeping Project” at Lombard/Fried Fine Arts in New York and “The Male Pregnancy Project,” a celebrated web-based event, he has risen to prominence by integrating science and architecture with the most mundane human activities...
Researchers and clinicians have found that bacterial resistance to antibiotics has risen steeply in parts of the world where these drugs are commonly prescribed, she said, but there is little resistance to antibiotics that are rarely prescribed...
...Greeks staved off the Persians, Genghis Khan stopped short of Kiev, and the Cold War ended with no major Eastern incursions. But it appears that a new monster has risen from the East, this time in the form of 7’6 Rockets’ center Yao Ming. Yao has arrived in full force, and his impact has been felt both in the paint and in the world of marketing, where Yao has been a smash hit in the past year...
...Lexington, Mass.-based company is the prime contractor for the Patriot Air and Missile Defense system which has been used in recent weeks to intercept Iraqi missiles aimed at Kuwait City. Its shares have risen 15 percent since war began and are projected to rise further as the U.S. arsenal—which includes Ratheon Tomahawk missiles each with a price tag of one million dollars—requires restocking...