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...insufficiently impartial, given the turmoil in the Middle East. Other possible candidates are former Malaysian Deputy P.M. Anwar Ibrahim and two contenders to be the first female Secretary-General: Singaporean Ambassador to Washington Chan Heng Chee--said to be a U.S. favorite--and New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark...
...Price of a marriage license in Clark County, Nev., which decided last week to close its Las Vegas licensing office from midnight to 8 a.m. as a cost-cutting move, ending the long tradition of impromptu late-night marriages...
...That Change Lives tour, a kind of low-key Lollapalooza for freethinking colleges that are looking for liberated students. Last year more than 600 people attended each of the sessions in Chicago, Houston, San Francisco and Washington. In a crowded Manhattan hotel ballroom, Maria Furtado, director of admissions at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., grabs the wireless microphone in front of a crowd of more than 500 parents, students and college counselors and happily shatters conventional wisdom. "Every spring and every fall, this is what you will see and hear in the media: 'No one gets in anywhere,'" she says...
...point may not be around the corner, so long-term investors may want to think less about timing and more about diversification. Financial planners recommend allocating as much as 5% to emerging markets but generally no more, considering the risk (think Nigeria or Venezuela). When culling the world markets, Clark Winter, chief global investment strategist at Citigroup Global Wealth Management, looks for macroeconomic drivers. The big one historically has been U.S. monetary policy, and domestic interest rates still hold a lot of sway over what happens abroad...
...Clark added that the agency could not supply the demographic makeup of some 43,000 TSA screeners on duty today. The reason to replace ID checkers would be "using human technology, if you will," says Clark, "to search for behavioral stress levels." New TSA ID screeners, she says, would receive psychological training on how to question passengers, akin to how Israel's El Al airline operates. (Chertoff also said this week that current TSA screeners will receive 38 hours of training in the detection of "detonators and modern types of explosives...