Tuesday, September 06, 2005
major news
I haven't blogged for a while. In the past week, there were two major news.
Without doubts, the most important one is Katrina. The hurricane destroied New Orleans and thousands of people died. Texas accepted more than 220,000 evacuees from Houston to San Antonio to Dallas. The recovery is very tough. Due to the hurricane, both crude oil and gas price soared last week. The average gas price in Austin climbed above $2.80 per gallon. As a result, the economy expectation was revised down and the stock markets plummet. I had a very bad week. :(
The second news is that a female student of Purdue University shot her husband, also a Ph.D. student of Purdue U. and abandoned his body in a car trunk. She fled back to China and got caught in Shanghai when she tried to walk through the customs with her husband's passport. Both students were from Shanghai. Sigh.
Without doubts, the most important one is Katrina. The hurricane destroied New Orleans and thousands of people died. Texas accepted more than 220,000 evacuees from Houston to San Antonio to Dallas. The recovery is very tough. Due to the hurricane, both crude oil and gas price soared last week. The average gas price in Austin climbed above $2.80 per gallon. As a result, the economy expectation was revised down and the stock markets plummet. I had a very bad week. :(
The second news is that a female student of Purdue University shot her husband, also a Ph.D. student of Purdue U. and abandoned his body in a car trunk. She fled back to China and got caught in Shanghai when she tried to walk through the customs with her husband's passport. Both students were from Shanghai. Sigh.
# posted by yaping @ 7:52 PM 
