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...running on, he gasped out an answer. His car wouldn't start, and he was due downtown to take a test for a job with the fire department. If he was late, he'd be locked out, and 50 blocks was a long way to run, so he was almost certainly going to be late...
...higher rate of bank failures is increasing strain on the FDIC's resources. The agency's insurance-fund balance dropped by almost half in the fourth quarter, from $35 billion to $19 billion. To keep funds from dwindling, the FDIC is going to raise deposit-insurance assessment rates beginning in the second quarter of 2009, adding to the burden that already-troubled banks will have to bear...
...Eastern Europe has begun in earnest. According to MarketWatch, "The World Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the European Investment Bank issued a joint pledge Friday to provide up to 24.5 billion euros ($31.2 billion) in aid to support Eastern Europe's bank sector." That is almost certainly only the beginning of the process...
...Svalbard is a repository for samples from national seed banks across the globe - almost every country in the world has one. Their purpose, of course, is to backup native plant varieties. If climate conditions change or a disease threatens crops currently in use, plant breeders can dip into seed banks to try to grow new crops. The seed diversity preserved in these banks can mean the difference between feast and famine. But the banks that contain our most diverse and important collections of seeds tend to be located in developing countries, where budgets are tight and conditions are less than...
...expect the quality of his output to suffer, as the value of each song is cheapened by the sheer volume that the man spits out. What is so shocking about “The Planets are Blasted,” then, is not just that the songs are almost universally good but that the album feels so essential and climactic. Pollard has proven that, even at 51-years-old, he is more than capable of producing an entirely relevant and enthralling album.“The Planets are Blasted” is very much a continuation of what Pollard...