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...financial geeks and really bored people to ponder. But not now. The dollar's long slide--and widespread expectations that it will slip further--has officials on three continents fearing that their economies are stretched to the breaking point. They're assigning plenty of blame anywhere but their own backyard, and the accountability void only deepens worries of a dollar-induced global-domino recession...
Travel around the world without leaving your Cambridge backyard when you attend this DTME winter concert featuring folk and other music from Europe and beyond. Followed by a reception. Free and open to the public. 8 p.m. Dudley House...
...truly international, with wealthy developed countries leading the way. They need to budget real money now to stockpile bird-flu vaccine and antiviral drugs-and allow the WHO to channel some of those supplies to countries that can't afford them. In the long run, Asia's age-old backyard-farming practices-whereby animals and human beings live in close proximity, giving rise to new viruses like H5N1-need to be moved toward modern methods of slaughtering and food preparation. That will take resources that nations like Vietnam don't have, so again, those funds need to come from developed...
...Teachers, police officers, businessmen, tradesmen, a child-care center owner and religious ministers figure among those accused of buying the images. Several more are believed to have been producing their own child pornography in backyard studios; six have committed suicide after being charged or questioned about their involvement. Away from their computers, the suspects led outwardly normal lives as fathers, husbands, brothers and boyfriends. Deep in what they thought was the anonymity of cyberspace, however, they were amassing huge libraries of images. But theirs were not the only eyes scanning the websites...
...figures he can overcome the higher labor costs in the U.S. and turn his plants into strategic assets--shipping directly to retailers from the factory and saving a bundle on inventory costs. His goal: to make New Balance more like Toyota, a model of lean manufacturing in his own backyard...