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...previous paragraph made your head hurt, don't be discouraged. Nobody fully understands global monetary arrangements; the best that experts in the field seem to be able to do is worry vaguely. So what are the rest of us to do other than worry vaguely? Think twice about traveling to Europe, maybe, because it's really expensive. Hope a somewhat weaker dollar will help revive this country's beaten-down manufacturing sector - as seems to be happening - but also hope a dollar slide doesn't turn into a collapse. And put at least some of your money into investments (foreign...
WORCESTER, Mass.—Catching his breath in front of his own basket, guard Jeremy Lin clapped his hands once, twice, three times. The Harvard co-captain needed no words in urging his teammates to get back on defense while silencing an enemy crowd of over 3000. He let his game do all the talking. Lin had a game-high 24 points—including a dunk that sparked an 18-3 run midway through the second half—to lead the Crimson (1-0) past Holy Cross 87-77 at the Hart Center Friday night...
...fund computer upgrades) or a lack of judgment - will haunt the agency for years. Loans it backed in 2006 and 2007 are souring at a particularly high rate because of seller-financed down payments; when a home buyer isn't the one ponying up equity, there is more than twice as much chance that the loan will go bad. That practice is now gone, but the FHA is still expecting more than 20% of the loans it insured during those two years to eventually default...
Merwin won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry twice, in both 1971 and 2009. He also won the Tanning Prize, one of the highest honors bestowed by the Academy of American Poets...
...hours on homework each week. That's not bad; in fact, it's much better than it used to be (in 1980 a mere 7% of kids did that much work at home each week). But Chinese students, according to a 2006 report by the Asia Society, spend twice as many hours doing homework as do their U.S. peers...