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...director of the International Monetary Fund, said in an address in London in late November that "the storm has passed" but "the global economy remains very much in a holding pattern - stable, and getting better, but still highly vulnerable." He added: "There is a lot of uncertainty in the air." (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...heart of Berlusconi's culture is the velina, or showgirl, who is served up to Italians every day, like pasta. Some veline merely stand mute while male presenters talk. Some give on-air lap dances to chat-show guests, as did one earlier this year to Inter Milan coach José Mourinho. Others play the funny little games producers devise, posing as table legs, or braving cold showers in tight dresses. Some simply strip: Mediaset's homepage recently featured a clip of a blonde clad in a black garbage bag, slowly lowering it to reveal her breasts. Degrading? Undoubtedly...
...perhaps the biggest reason for optimism is Xi'an residents like Lu Bo. The 32-year-old says the salary he earns as a salesman in the air-freight department at China Eastern Airlines was reduced by a third last year when his company was hit hard by the financial crisis, but that hasn't stopped him from spending. So confident is he about the future, he recently went out shopping for a new refrigerator. "Judging from my job, my life, I think everything will become better and better," Lu says. And maybe for the entire world economy as well...
...throw off MacMath but struck his penalty weakly to the right. The rebound came back to Akpan off MacMath’s knee, but the ball took a high bounce, and Akpan was unable to get his foot over it, sending his attempt high into the air, and eventually, into the arms of MacMath...
...great scoop. "Did Minister Jung conceal the truth?" Germany's mass-circulation tabloid Bild demanded to know Thursday in a story focused on the country's employment minister Franz Josef Jung and what details he knew and when, in his former job as defense minister, about the controversial air strike, called in by German forces, on two hijacked tanker trucks in northern Afghanistan on Sept...