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...Credit isn’t moving through the system,’ ” she said. “You have to ask why.” Warren noted the speed with which the economy tumbled into crisis and the degree to which lawmakers were caught off guard. “There wasn’t time even to develop a coherent list of questions to ask Treasury about what it’s doing and what it plans to do—and whether either of those are likely to address what’s going wrong...
Situations like Buck's may make this new research all the more attractive. Better yet, consider the case of Sarah Krasnoff, probably the world's most extreme jet-lag sufferer. In 1971, caught up in a custody dispute over her teenage grandson, Krasnoff learned that she was not subject to custody laws in the sky. That summer, she made about 160 continuous flights between New York and Europe with her grandson. By the end of the summer, Krasnoff, 74, collapsed and died of a heart attack...
...more environmentally friendly cars. Sarkozy also called last week for the loosening of E.U. restrictions on direct state aid to companies, restrictions established to encourage more-competitive markets in Europe. "We can't have the Americans unlocking $25 billion in loans for their three manufacturers while we would be caught up in a state-assistance regime that does not allow us to help our European automakers," Sarkozy said...
...grandfather lives next door to the Oberoi hotel,” Tobaccowala ’10 said. “So this has literally hit home for us.”She said her grandfather is fine but was shaken by the fact that he could have been caught in the carnage. These attacks are particularly striking because of the targeting of westerners and higher Indian society, Tobaccowala said. “It’s an interesting situation because the Taj and the Oberoi are where most of the foreigners go when they visit Mumbai,” Tobaccowala...
...their city of 12 million has been paralyzed - shops closed, streets emptied - by just two dozen attackers in the past two days. How could this happen? The unwelcome truth is that this grand cosmopolitan city, one that has survived two even deadlier terrorists bombings in 2003 and 2006, was caught completely unprepared...