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...Next Asia will also have to come to grips with its inherent lack of coordination by exerting greater control over its fragmented economies, markets and political systems. China's four largest banks, for example, still have over 50,000 branches between them - branches that in many cases function autonomously with respect to deposit-gathering and lending policies. Such a fragmented banking system has long been a major complication for China's central bank and its execution of a coherent monetary policy. Asia's rural-urban dichotomy also creates a natural fragmentation to its social and economic fabric - underscoring ever widening...
...Westminster and Wapping, the 51 licensed mudlarks are the only people allowed to excavate the historically rich north side of the river, which since A.D. 50 has provided docking points for Roman, Saxon, Viking and Norman occupiers and, more recently, for British trade boats and royal ships. (The south bank, Shakespeare's side, is notable for its abundance of brothel paraphernalia.) (See pictures of the treasure hoard found in Staffordshire...
Beck (and Olbermann, Limbaugh, et al.) are laughing all the way to the bank, yet we continue to tune in and ask for more. I ask you, Who are the idiots in this picture...
...else calls him too; for the movie posits a world in which people are compelled to speak the truth, however harsh it sounds, because they haven't recognized either the social utility of telling folks what they want to hear or the potential for career advancement--not to mention bank-robbing--in bending the facts. So Mark's colleagues at the film studio where he's a writer feel obliged to inform him that he's about to be fired. And when he finally snags a date with his adored co-worker Anna (Jennifer Garner), she greets him by saying...
...glass-plate negatives to the scenes of the Crimean War. A few years later, Matthew Brady and his team made their unprecedented record of battlefield deaths and civilian devastation in the Civil War. For most of us, our memories of war in the 20th century are from an image bank of photographs, from D-day to Korea and Vietnam--pictures that not only recorded those wars but also informed the way people felt about them...