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...other important and relatively new economic concern for the summer is oil prices. OPEC has not been clear about what it will do with supply. The Saudi's have spoken out for keeping it unchanged and because of the size of their output they usually rule the day. Speculators still seem prepared to trade crude above $60 on most days. A fair number of analysts see oil moving to $70 or $75 by Labor Day. The cost of a barrel of crude will move up if there is strong evidence that the demand in China is growing. Ironically if there...
...eventually causing the body to slow production of insulin, the hormone necessary to break down sugars found in food. (In Type 2, or adult-onset, diabetes the pancreas continues to make insulin, but the body fails to respond properly to the hormone's signals.) While it is not yet clear what causes Type 1 diabetes, some experts believe that a patient's own immune system starts to attack insulin-producing cells in the pancreas, ultimately leading to a drop-off in hormone production. (Watch TIME's video "Uninsured Again...
...yeah, I always have. I always want them to get all the words right. I think that's a lot of the fun of the spelling bee - you root for everybody. And I try to make it clear to the spellers that I'm there to give them absolutely every possible thing that I can to help them - within some limits...
...that, days like today make it clear just how much the outside world doesn't know - and how dangerously unpredictable North Korea can be. On Monday morning, Pyongyang tested a nuclear bomb for the second time in three years. "We just didn't see this coming," a usually very well-informed intelligence source in east Asia told TIME today. The magnitude of the explosion in North Hamgyong Province, in the northeastern part of the country, near the Chinese and Russian borders, was four times greater than that of the last test, in the autumn of 2006, analysts in Seoul said...
...While the site implied that Russia was not ready to budge on any of the issues on the table, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev made the point exceedingly clear. "The Russian Federation has not given any assurances and will not give any," he said after requests from the European side that the January gas crisis - when Russia cut off supplies to Ukraine for over a payment dispute - not be repeated. Although smiles abounded and the talks were held at the Musical Comedy Theatre, just off Khabarovsk's main Karl Marx Prospekt, the tone was one of disagreement. (See pictures of Russians...