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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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"I was not so concerned about the fiscal cliff as I was about the debt ceiling," said Thomas "Danny" Boston, professor in the School of Economics. For the fiscal cliff, "the economy really was growing strong enough to get passed that. ... But we can't move beyond the debt ceiling issue. I knew that that would be a stopper. A game stopper. And so we have to address that now." Source: CNN, January 14, 2013