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...Catoe began modeling by chance in October 2008 when he was discovered in Copley by an agent who invited him to do a test shoot...
...allegations and refused calls to temporarily step down. "There is no proof, aside from the recording, which I discredit completely," he said. Colom also asked for assistance from international bodies, including a U.N.-backed investigatory body and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigations. Embassy officials said an FBI agent arrived in Guatemala on Wednesday to help the government...
...ability to short is essential to an efficient market, otherwise there's nothing to stop zealots from pricing things abnormally high. If you buy one of these long securities, called UMM, it's like buying a house, except you don't have to go through the real estate agent, take possession of a property, maintain it, rent it out. But we also have the DMM, which is short housing. Markets like this will also create an infrastructure for products. For example, insurers could issue home-equity insurance and then hedge themselves by taking a position in this market...
...restaurant supports four other people with their salary, according to Gerson Misumi, managing director of Tamarind Management, a restaurant and resort firm in Kenya and South Africa. "There's a chain of services that depend on our industry." Lipman of the UNWTO agrees. "Tourism is a good development agent because poor countries don't have to manufacture it," he says. Developing nations already have their product - nature, culture, tradition - and all that's required to profit is a bit of investment in infrastructure and Internet marketing. "The market comes to these countries, then wanders around depositing foreign-exchange income wherever...
...That's a huge hit," says Michael Unzueta, special agent in charge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Office of Investigations [in San Diego]. "Drug trafficking organizations don't want to lose money, narcotics, houses and the same goes for tunnels - and if they spent a year a digging a tunnel and then to loose that asset so quickly, that has to have some crippling setback effect...