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Even in places where budgets haven't been cut, they're concerned about keeping up with the summer swarm
By ASHLEY M. HEHER CHICAGO (AP) -- Credit the recession for staycations and bringing us more game-night parties at home. But also give it a shout for spurring more first dates.
The Associated Press Credit the recession for bringing us more game-night parties and spurring more first dates. Economic woes, it seems, unleash something practically primal in many of us who find ourselves without a partner: a hard-wired desire for companionship.
The Railway Minister Ms Mamata Banerjee, presented the Railway Budget on Friday. There is increase in passenger fares or freight tariff. She announced 12 non-stop point-to-point long-distance trains and air-conditioned double-decker coaches for inter-city travel.
Neetu Bhatia, co-founder, chairman and CEO of Kyazoonga, an online movie, cricket, entertainment and sports ticketing company, recalls separating components of her toys and studying their various parts when she was a child. She credits her present affinity for gadgets to this childhood habit.
New Zealand actress Keisha Castle-Hughes overcame seasickness to join the Greenpeace ship Esperanza in the Cook Islands to raise awareness of climate change. This is her account of the visit.
Click the photo to go to the next photo On Thursday night, two time Russian promoter of the year German Titov staged his biggest tournament in 2009 so far, bringing world class professional boxing to Moscow for the first time in ten months.
Credit the recession for staycations and bringing us more game-night parties at home. But also give it a shout for spurring more first dates. Some singles are now hunting for dates with the same fervor others are showing hunting for jobs.
All job growth since the final year of the dot-com bubble, its recovery from the bust, and the ensuing six years of consumer-driven boom is now gone, leading some economists to fear an outright decline in wages will be next. Others believe the U.S. is on track for a painful "jobless recovery"
Millions of mosquito eggs laid across southern Texas after Hurricane Ike hit the coast last summer are waiting for the little bit of rain and hot summer days they need to hatch. That's got the man whose job it is to fight the bugs worried _ he's already running out of money.
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