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...Root of the Problems Warren Buffett, the nation's most successful investor, back in 2003 called these derivatives - which it turned out almost no one understood - "weapons of financial mass destruction." But what did he know? He was a 70-something alarmist fuddy-duddy who had cried wolf for years. No reason to worry about wolves until you hear them howling at your door, right...
...holdings in Goldman rocketed from $95 million to $315 million. Though his ascent to Treasury Secretary in 2006 was by all accounts a promotion, it was nonetheless a sharp blow to his wallet. The secretary position pays $191,300; in the year before he left Goldman, Paulson netted almost $40 million...
...World Health Organization (WHO) has cut its global estimate of yearly malaria cases by more than 100 million, according to a report released Thursday by the health agency. Almost all of that downward revision was attributable to updated surveillance numbers - mostly in Asia, and particularly in India - rather than a measurable reduction of actual malaria cases, agency staff said...
There may have been some truth to that argument. Money funneled to HIV and malaria control has soared in the last decade, to almost $9 billion and roughly $1 billion a year, respectively (those figures, too, are hazy estimates), although in the case of HIV especially, money has not always been channeled into disease-control programs based on the best scientific evidence. (That's particularly true for politically sensitive - and, therefore, under-funded or ignored - interventions that aim to prevent high-risk sex and drug abuse...
When bassist Dimas Anindityo, drummer Mulyadi Triharsono, guitarist Yudhi Arfani and keyboard player Aulia Naratama began jamming with singer Irene Yohanna almost 10 years ago, they were so impressed with her languid vocals that they agreed to name their band Everybody Loves Irene. But of course, not everybody loves her - in fact, in their native Jakarta nobody beyond a tight circle of alternative-music fans has even heard...