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cline and was moderately better than the 0.2 percent anticipated in the markets. Despite the growth recorded during the quarter, the eurozone economy remains 0.7 percent smaller compared with the second quarter last year. However, that's still an improvement on the 1.1 percent annual contraction seen in the first quarter.
•  The figures provide will be greeted with a sigh of relief by Europe's policymakers, who have spent nearly four years grappling with a debt crisis that has threatened the very future of the euro.
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•  About 50 million people lost power Aug. 14, 2003, when a tree branch in Ohio started an outage that cascaded across a broad swath from Michigan to New England and Canada. Commuters in New York City and elsewhere had to sleep on steps, hitchhike or walk home as trains were rendered powerless and gas pumps stopped working; food spoiled as refrigerators and freezers thawed; jugs of water sold out as supply plants lost their ability to supply consumers; minds were set to wandering about terrorism fears less than two years after 9/11. Ten years later, The Associated Press asked several people: Where were you during the blackout of 2003?
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