Sentiment among Japan’s largest manufacturers is at a record low, according to a key business survey released Wednesday morning.
Japanese business confidence at record low
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Anchorage Airport closed as volcanic ash falls
The Anchorage, Alaska, airport remained closed Sunday morning after an erupting volcano shot ash some 45,000 feet in the air on Saturday, officials said.
Alaska’s Mount Redoubt erupts again
Mount Redoubt volcano in southern Alaska has erupted again, shooting ash as high as 45,000 feet in the air on Saturday, experts said. The eruption occurred at about 1:30 p.m.
Alaska’s Mount Redoubt erupts
Mount Redoubt, a volcano in southern Alaska, began erupting late Sunday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey
Alaska volcano back on eruption watch
Researchers have raised the alert status at Mount Redoubt, a volcano in southern Alaska, after another increase in seismic activity. “Shallow earthquake activity under the volcano has been as high as 26 events per 10-minute period,” officials at the Alaska Volcano Observatory said Sunday in a statement announcing that the alert level was raised to “watch” status.
Massacre Raises Issue of Gun Control in Europe
Europeans might once have viewed massacres at educational institutions as a uniquely American scourge, but they no longer have that luxury: Friday found Germany still mourning the 16 victims of Wednesday’s carnage in Winnenden, while Scotland marked the 13th anniversary of Europe’s first mass school shooting, the bloodbath at Dunblane in which 16 grade-school students and their teacher were mowed down by a lone gunman. Clearly, Europe has a problem to which there’s no simple solution. “When you compare us to countries with enormous gun ownership like the U.S., it’s obvious we’re less vulnerable to gun violence,” says Christophe Soullez, chief of France’s National Observatory on Delinquency
Strong earthquake shakes Panama
An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 shook Panama Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
Team battles Arctic winter to measure melting ice caps
It could be the ultimate test of human endurance: Three British explorers are risking their lives in subzero temperatures to measure the melting Arctic ice cap. The team is on a three-month, 621-mile (1,000-kilometer) hike to their final destination at the North Pole. Along the way, taking precise measurements to determine exactly how fast the ice cap is disappearing.
Is It Less Stressful to Get Laid Off Than Stay?
It is a familiar scene these days: employees taking newly laid-off co-workers out for a consolation drink. But which side deserves the sympathy more, the jobless or the still employed
Job Forecast for College Seniors: Grimmer Than Ever
Smith College’s career office sent its jittery job-hunting seniors a letter last month with a reassuring message: “There ARE jobs, and you can find employment.” Unfortunately, there are far fewer jobs than anticipated, according to a report out today from the National Association for Colleges and Employers . The companies surveyed for the group’s spring update are planning to hire 22% fewer grads from the class of 2009 than they hired from the class of 2008, a big letdown from the group’s projections in October that hiring would hold steady. Some 44% of companies in the survey, conducted last month, said they plan to hire fewer new grads, and another 22% said they do not plan to hire at all this spring, more than double last year’s figure