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...when you think of the actual pigs that have been slaughtered in a hysteria-prompted move in Israel (no one has yet contracted the illness there), then this seems ... totally insensitive. But to be a little less crass and a bit more instructive, the creators - Immad Akhund, 25 and Jude Gomila, 24, two burgeoning online-game developers - make sure to list some helpful everyday actions suggested by the CDC that can help combat swine flu and give users the chance to donate to the Red Cross. No word on whether any flying green pigs were injured during the making...
...threat of this new influenza strain has apparently frightened consumers away from buying pork, frightened traders into selling hog futures, and frightened entire countries, such as Russia and China, into slamming their doors to pork imports from Mexico and the U.S. Also, with prices falling, there is a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy: as prices fall, food processors that buy hogs cut back on their orders because they believe they can buy hogs at even cheaper prices later on. The result: prices keep falling...
...chain of services that depend on our industry." Lipman of the UNWTO agrees. "Tourism is a good development agent because poor countries don't have to manufacture it," he says. Developing nations already have their product - nature, culture, tradition - and all that's required to profit is a bit of investment in infrastructure and Internet marketing. "The market comes to these countries, then wanders around depositing foreign-exchange income wherever it's directed, including poor rural areas," Lipman says. That's a handsome return on investment for any country, developing or otherwise...
...former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, who both spoke on Saturday alongside Cantor. The audience consisted mainly of Washington Republican consultants and Cantor supporters who received word from his e-mail listserv. The three struck a moderate tone. "It's time for us to listen, first, to learn a little bit, to upgrade our message a little bit, to not be nostalgic about the past because you know things do ebb and flow," Bush told the crowd. "You can't beat something with nothing. The other side has something. I don't like it, but they have it." (See "Obama...
...lose his temper. Never. He always had a pleasant smile, always had a kind word," says Earl Ofari Hutchinson, who retired from State Fund last December and is president of the Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable. Hutchinson says Thomas was married with children. "I knew [Thomas] was quite a bit older than myself," he says. "I used to ask him what was the secret to his youthful appearance. He'd always laugh, with that smile of his, and essentially say, 'Just good living.'" (See pictures of the LAPD cracking down on homicide rates...