.The ...
now-finished boom was, for most Americans, nothing of the sort. In 2000, at the
end of the previous economic expansion, the median American family made about
$61,000, according to ... inflation-adjusted numbers. In 2007, in what looks to
have been the final year of the most recent expansion, the median family,
amazingly, seems to have made less — about $60,500.
After the boomers, meet the children dubbed 'baby losers' | World news | The Observer
Across Spain, France and Italy, young middle-class professionals with good degrees and diplomas are facing a lifetime on low salaries with unrewarding jobs, forever poorer than their parents.
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FIAT 500 SET TO BE BUILT BY ZASTAVA AS TALKS WRAP UP
After intensive top level talks over recent days the Fiat Group is now in the final stages of taking charge of the Zastava car company and is set to start building the Fiat 500 and the forthcoming B-compact hatchback in its Serbian factory.
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EU trade commissioner Peter Mandelson has conceded that certain biofuel policies contribute to food price rises and increase greenhouse gas emissions, but that Europe's policies are sound. Instead, Mr Mandelson has suggested that it is Washington's biofuels policies that are having these unwanted consequences.
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Half of EU immigrants to UK have already left
Half of the 1 million eastern Europeans who have come to Britain since 2004 have already gone home, according to a new study. The number of people arriving from countries such as Poland are falling, and greater numbers than before are leaving, the report by the left-leaning Institute for Public Policy research found.
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Cracks in the foundation
Subprime mortgages are blamed for the US housing crisis - but the deeper problem is the lack of a national housing plan
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LQD: When marriage between gays was by rite
In the article Duffy summarises John Boswell's research into gay Marriage in the Christian tradition and shows that there were formal marriage rites for the consummation of gay marriage that were extant as late as the 17th. Century.
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A Slippery Slope: Artificial Snow Harming Alpine Environment, Researchers Warn - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News
But the effects of the massive artificial snow output are worrying scientists. "Artificial snow melts two to three weeks later (than normal snow)," says Christian Rixen of the Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research. Adding to the worry is the fact that artificial snow melt contains more minerals and nutrients than regular melt water. One consequence of the different composition is an alteration of the natural ground covering, as plants with higher nutritional requirements suddenly begin to dominate.
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Guns, drugs, and financial innovation
Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff's new paper (summary here) makes the obvious but important point that financial globalization and financial crises are related. In their words, "Periods of high international capital mobility have repeatedly produced international banking crises, not only famously as they did in the 1990s, but historically."
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The Attack on Rudi Dutschke: A Revolutionary Who Shaped a Generation
Rudi Dutschke was the best known and most charismatic of Germany's 1968 student leaders. Forty years ago, a right-wing house painter shot him three times -- and he became the symbol of a generation.
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So, what has Europe ever done for us? Apart from... - Europe, News - Independent.co.uk
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