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...announcement may have caused some superrich Germans to tremble in their designer shoes. On Tuesday, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaüble said the government had agreed to buy a CD from an anonymous informant that contains the stolen bank details of up to 1,500 people who are suspected of evading German taxes by stashing their money in Swiss bank accounts. The decision wasn't made easily: the deal prompted a weeklong bout of soul-searching in Germany, with critics accusing the government of playing into the hands of a common criminal. It also caused a spat with Switzerland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Germany Is Paying Ransom for Stolen Data | 2/3/2010 | See Source »

...well be able to handle. It would be a lot easier to believe in the manned ones, too, if NASA had any crew vehicle it could put on top of a Falcon, which it doesn't. SpaceX is building its own crew vehicle, dubbed Dragon, which NASA can buy - if the thing is ever completed and proves itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Liftoff: Obama's Plan Grounds NASA | 2/2/2010 | See Source »

...can’t not buy new computers when computers break,” said executive administrative director of the department of molecular and cellular biology Susan H. Foster. “There are some things you can get by with for some short period of time but not a long period of time...

Author: By Noah S. Rayman and Elyssa A. L. Spitzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: FAS Reduces Budget Deficit | 2/2/2010 | See Source »

...calculated. It wasn’t—and those who have benefited from the Enron-led train of unscrupulous practices of the market—such as short-selling, betting against the market or hoping it will fail so that you can make money selling for high to buy at very low. or profiting from a fall in stock prices, insider trading, and mark-to-market accounting, or pricing assets at a higher value than they are actually worth—now unfairly criticize the president and his administration for being an interventionist one. Those on Main Street should...

Author: By Patrick Jean Baptiste | Title: The Necessary Regulation | 2/2/2010 | See Source »

...Ahmadinejad become enough of a liability for Khamenei and his allies to move against him? The President faces a difficult term ahead, even without the unresolved question of his legitimacy. Critics of his government say it squandered billions during his first term on expensive social programs intended to buy political support. Now faced with increasing sanctions and lower oil revenues, the government is about to launch a new program to wean the economy from unsustainable subsidies, especially on energy - a move that is almost certainly going to be unpopular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran's Opposition: Confrontation or Compromise? | 2/1/2010 | See Source »

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