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...possible that amid the current credit crisis, banks have been unwilling to lend money for this trading operation. More likely, though, is that there is limited access to infrastructure for storage. A bank or hedge fund with no such infrastructure has to jump an enormous barrier to entry in order to set itself up for storage - apparently to the point of leasing supertankers...
...come in archetypal construction yellow to footwear and boots. Its early 1900s tractors helped revolutionize the construction industry - and inspired the first military tanks that took to battle in World War I. But now Caterpillar is facing a very 21st century ordeal, one that almost all other companies face amid what is arguably the gravest economic crisis since the Depression. On Monday, Caterpillar joined other U.S. companies in announcing the collective loss of some 75,000 jobs at operations worldwide. (See pictures of the stock market crash...
When I recall reporting Burma's doomed pro-democracy uprising for TIME in September 2007, one image stands out. Amid cheering crowds, a monk holds aloft an upturned alms bowl to indicate his brethren's refusal to accept offerings from the military. It's a powerful gesture in a devout Buddhist country, but what strikes me is not the monk but the ordinary Burmese holding aloft cell phones and cameras to record his protest. Images like these were then transmitted out of Burma via the Internet, where they were picked up by major broadcasters and shown to the world...
...Iceland Banks Fail; Government Follows After months of protests triggered by the collapse of Iceland's economy amid the global financial crisis, its government finally joined suit on Jan. 26. It has been replaced by a new left-leaning coalition that is expected to tap Johanna Sigurdardottir to take the helm. The 66-year-old Social Affairs Minister would become the world's first openly gay woman to serve as head of state...
...post-conflict Northern Ireland should best deal with the legacy of its three decades of the Troubles, a Protestant woman, whose parents died in an IRA bomb attack 15 years ago, confronted Gerry Adams, the Sinn Fein President and best known face of Irish Republicanism. "Murderer!" she screamed, amid boos from some participants and cheers from others...