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After Downgrade, Spain Hit by Unemployment Report

Spanish unemployment has risen above 20 percent, the country’s statistics agency said Friday, a number not seen since 1997. The announcement came just days after Spain had its debt downgraded by Standard and Poor’s amid Europe’s wider credit crisis. Spanish unemployment has more than doubled since January 2008, rising 11.45 percentage points as the country… Seguir Leyendo After Downgrade, Spain Hit by Unemployment Report

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Spain’s Falling Prices Fuel Deflation Fears in Europe

Spain’s Falling Prices Fuel Deflation Fears in Europe Faced with plunging orders, merchants across this recession-wracked country are starting to do something that many of them have never done: cut retail prices. Prices dipped everywhere, from restaurants and fashion retailers to pharmacies and supermarkets in March. Hoping to increase sales, Fernando Maestre reduced prices by… Seguir Leyendo Spain’s Falling Prices Fuel Deflation Fears in Europe

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Unsent E-Mail Helped Plotters Coordinate Madrid Bombings

Unsent E-Mail Helped Plotters Coordinate Madrid Bombings Sign In to E-Mail This Print Reprints Save By RENWICK McLEANPublished: April 30, 2006MADRID, April 29 — One of the leading figures indicted in the March 11, 2004, train bombings in Madrid used a simple trick that allowed him to communicate with his confederates on ordinary e-mail accounts… Seguir Leyendo Unsent E-Mail Helped Plotters Coordinate Madrid Bombings

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One Find, Two Astronomers: An Ethical Brawl

One Find, Two Astronomers: An Ethical BrawlInstitute of Astrophysics of Andalusia The Sierra Nevada Observatory in Spain. * Sign In to E-Mail This * Printer-Friendly * Single-Page * Reprints By DENNIS OVERBYEPublished: September 13, 2005 Correction Appended When a group of Spanish astronomers reported in July that they had discovered a spectacular addition to the… Seguir Leyendo One Find, Two Astronomers: An Ethical Brawl