• One-fifth of young adults reported having five or more drinks in a day on at least 12 days in the past year.

    CNN: CDC: 'Young invincibles' have significant health concerns

  • Needless to say, there has not been a day of complete calm in the past nine months, let alone seven weeks.

    ECONOMIST: Truce or dare | The

  • In other words, VAR said how much money a bank could lose in a single day IF mortgage borrowers behaved the way they had in the past and the world stayed within the 95% of the bell-shaped curve it normally occupies.

    FORBES: Japan's Nuclear Crisis Looks A Lot Like Our Financial Crisis

  • The rock emphasis of the final day is a nod to Reading's past in the late 1970s and 1980s - when bands like Uriah Heep, Whitesnake and Iron Maiden could be found on the festival's stages.

    BBC: News | Entertainment | Reading goes north

  • He set out his reasons in a paper analysing policy in the past two cycles published the day before the pre-budget report.

    ECONOMIST: Singing in the rain

  • The Los Angeles teachers union agreed earlier this month to use test scores in evaluations after a protracted fight with the district, and Chicago teachers staged a seven-day strike this past fall, in part, over efforts to judge them on students' test results.

    WSJ: Seattle Teachers Protest Exams

  • When McPherson wasn't answering questions about Katie Holmes' guest turn on sophomore drama Eli Stone, he focused on the fall's two newcomers: Life on Mars, a British remake about a modern-day police detective who wakes up 35 years in the past, and Opportunity Knocks, a chance-of-a-lifetime game show from star Ashton Kutcher.

    FORBES: Jimmy Kimmel Live

  • The most enduring embargo in modern day history is a remnant of a Cold War past when the Soviet Union was the enemy and the world was on the brink of nuclear war.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • But LEG is down about 3.7% since closing on the day of its IPO this past January, a performance analysts partly blame on saturation in the sector.

    WSJ: Apartment Firm Hopes to Build on German Demand

  • Fresh from an encouraging Test performance in Sri Lanka, and having showed some promising form in One-Day Internationals over the past few years, Bangladesh faced a Zimbabwe side demoralized after a thrashing in the Caribbean.

    WSJ: Bangladesh Cricket Team Bruised After Tour of Zimbabwe

  • Jones, raised in Australia and born in Papua New Guinea, has been the 2nd XI leading run-scorer for the past three seasons and impressed with the gloves in a the one-day friendly against India in June.

    BBC: Kent axe Nixon

  • Snack day is a lot more tricky these days than in the past.

    FORBES: Back to School: Special Food Needs

  • The XHB and most of its component stocks now trade below their 200-day moving averages, below which their 50-day averages plunged in the past month and a half.

    FORBES: Crummy Home Sales Data Fail To Bury Builders

  • "In the past it was take a pill every day or have an operation, and there was nothing in between, " says New York gastroenterologist Lawrence Cohen.

    FORBES: Health

  • Train operators are running 1, 000 extra services a day while the number of passenger journeys has increased by nearly 100m in the past two years.

    ECONOMIST: Railways

  • General McChrystal had had some sort of media blow ups in the past and usually with a three or four day issue that would be a headache, but then it would go away.

    BBC: McChrystal comments 'indicate deep frustrations'

  • "I do yoga every day, and that has given me a lot of inspiration and ideas in the past one-and-a-half years, " he says.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Lewis said he was keen to be a part of Red Nose Day this year as he had not been available in the past.

    BBC: Damien Lewis heads to Dibley for Comic Relief

  • "Still, you'd have to say it was a good day for data, especially in light of what's been seen over the past three weeks, " DBS said, referring to weak hiring, manufacturing and retail sales reports that had suggested the U.S. economy was cooling.

    NPR: Asian Stocks Rebound As US Recovery Doubts Ease

  • Iraq's oil production has increased by more than 40% in the past five years to 3 million barrels of oil a day (still below the 1979 high of 3.5 million set by Iraq's state-owned companies), but a full 80% of this is being exported out of the country while Iraqis struggle to meet basic energy consumption needs.

    CNN: Why the war in Iraq was fought for Big Oil

  • The attorneys have asked Gov. Mary Fallin for a 60-day reprieve based on the new evidence of innocence they say they discovered in the past two weeks.

    CNN: Justice Breyer on revisiting the death penalty

  • But in the past, there used to be up to 21 shows a day in Baghdad - now there are just one or two.

    BBC: MUHAMMED ABDEL-SATTAR, JOURNALIST, 28

  • In the past day or so, there seems to have been a drop in momentum for the Kerry-McCain resolution in the Senate, and now we have this new proposal from Corker and Webb that appears to be similar to the House resolution from last week.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • No, say his opponents (and most historians), who see this as a ludicrous attempt to link modern-day Slovakia to an ethnically pure superpower in the dim and distant past.

    ECONOMIST: Slovakia's disturbing patriotism

  • Statoil, having found two additional Barents Sea gas fields in the past 12 months, expects to produce up to 1m barrels a day of oil equivalent from new Arctic wells by 2020.

    ECONOMIST: Resources: Hidden treasure | The

  • Drive past a crossroads early in the morning, and you will see Afghan day-labourers sitting on the kerb, waiting for bosses with pick-up trucks who will set them to work shelling pistachios or humping carpets.

    ECONOMIST: Afghan refugees

  • Yet even with these losses, the airline industry has figured out how to move millions of spoiled, complaining Americans like me every day inside of tens of thousands of flying metal tubes without killing a single person in four of the past five years.

    FORBES: Here's Why I'm Grateful Microsoft Doesn't Build Airplanes

  • Friday's Chelyabinsk meteor shower comes on the same day that a hefty asteroid is due to charge past the Earth at a pretty close range, in space terms.

    CNN: Russian meteor shower causes blast; hundreds injured

  • The United States is in the midst of a miraculous supply boom that has seen domestic oil output soar by more than 1 million barrels per day in the past year to the highest levels in decades.

    FORBES: 7 Reasons Why Oil Prices Won't Plunge

  • Secretary of State John Kerry -- a former Massachusetts senator with deep ties to Boston -- found out about the blasts when he was on his way to Chicago on his way home from a 10-day foreign trip, and called his daughter Vanessa, who has run the Boston Marathon in the past, a senior State Department official said.

    CNN: Flights banned over Boston Marathon blast site

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