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...virtuous life: vegetarianism, temperance, abstinence, and frequent bathing. In November 1944, a British woodworker named Donald Watson announced that because vegetarians ate dairy and eggs, he was going to create a new term called "vegan," to describe people who did not. Tuberculosis had been found in 40% of Britain's dairy cows the year before, and Watson used this to his advantage, claiming that it proved the vegan lifestyle protected people from tainted food. Three months after coining the term, he issued a formal explanation of the way the word should be pronounced: "Veegan, not Veejan," he wrote...
...create the street artwork he's famous for. The Westminster piece depicts a child in a red, hooded sweatshirt on a ladder painting the slogan "One Nation Under CCTV" in large letters, as a U.S.-style police officer with a camera and a dog stand nearby. CCTV is Britain's system of closed-circuit public surveillance cameras. Ironically, Banksy completed the work with an actual CCTV camera overhead. (See pictures of Banksy's secret art show...
...they were over 10 times GDP this year. Furthermore, external debt in the form of foreign deposits in Icelandic banks was over 20 times the government’s debt. Effectively, the banks had become too big for the government to protect.Despite the fact that countries like Switzerland and Britain have survived for centuries with a similar discrepancy between banking assets and GDP, the miniscule size of the Icelandic economy as well as its fragility contributed to the deepening of the crisis. Earlier this year, while Icelandic banking executives offered interviews to calm investors, the Financial Times published an influential...
...like good news that so much opium has disappeared from the world drug market, but Costa believes the missing opium is a potential time bomb, and many law-enforcement officials agree. That's because the Taliban is believed to be "stockpiling to control the prices," says a spokesman for Britain's Serious Organized Crime Agency, who confirmed that NATO forces have uncovered Taliban stockpiles of opium. Despite the bumper opium harvests, the street price of heroin remains a costly $67 per g in European cities, and the price Afghan farmers charge for their opium has remained about...
...bleak economic situation has prompted Pakistan to desperately seek aid from such long-term allies as Saudi Arabia, Britain, the U.S. and China. Despite Zardari flying to those countries in recent weeks to make his case, he has yet to secure the loans needed to avoid a default on Pakistan's debt. Pakistani officials insist that they have no intention of defaulting, and the Pakistani rupee rose this week amid signs that the International Monetary Fund might step in to rescue this frontline state in the war on terror. The IMF confirmed Wednesday that it would soon enter discussions with...