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The credit crunch has thus far focused on the residential mortgage mess. But with $1.3 trillion in loans to shopping centers and other commercial properties coming due between now and 2013, another time bomb is ticking. In a report scheduled for release on Wednesday, Deutsche Bank estimates that at least...
In response, advertisements, television shows, and even the news are placing more and more emphasis on keeping the viewer entertained with short clips rather than informing them with long ones. The 30-second television commercial is all but extinct; we simply cannot focus for that long anymore. How many of...
China's rapidly growing Navy today patrols the Gulf of Aden, helping to protect Chinese commercial ships from piracy. It has eight new kilo class submarines - whose silence underwater makes them difficult to detect. Many of them are housed at a huge, new Naval base on the tropical island of...
At the end of apartheid, South Africa had no film industry to speak of. Filmmakers had either been co-opted by the white regime for propaganda or driven underground. Foreign filmmakers - whose big budgets can help prop up smaller local industries - had stayed away. With apartheid gone and sanctions lifted...
The waters they sought to protect, says Lehr, were "an El Dorado for fishing fleets of many nations." A 2006 study published in the journal Science predicted that the current rate of commercial fishing would virtually empty the world's oceanic stocks by 2050. Yet, Somalia's seas still offer...