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...agreements are an unusual step for China, which has historically used U.S. dollars to conduct its external trade. But with some 70% of its $2 trillion in foreign reserves parked in the U.S. currency, China is searching for ways to diversify. Beijing's main concern is that the dollar will inevitably weaken, eroding the value of its holdings, due to the growing U.S. budget deficit that is expected to swell to more than $1.75 trillion in 2009, the country's largest debt load as a percentage of GDP since World War II. "This is the tip of the iceberg," warns...
...However, both thought that the news was most damaging to Bridge and McNaughton, the only two students who had officially been hired. Tanton and Lloyd said they understood the administration’s desire to save money by ending the print edition and cutting student staff, but they expressed concern over how the end of student involvement will affect the legitimacy of the new version of the Q Guide. “It’s always been the way that students can keep a check on the administration,” Lloyd said. “Taking...
...Harvard Graduate School of Design’s weekend-long conference last Friday. The conference, entitled “Ecological Urbanism: Alternative and Sustainable Cities of the Future,” was the largest in the school’s history. The conference addressed a variety of issues concerning the evolution of cities in a world where sustainability is becoming a larger concern for planners. The event hosted speakers from a variety of disciplines including architecture, ecology, literature, history, and economics. “The conference had to include a certain balance of some of the best practices and ideas...
...recent address to the World Tamils Forum in London, the American civil-rights activist Reverend Jesse Jackson reiterated the right to self-determination and the importance of an immediate ceasefire before any political solutions can follow. Similar expressions of concern uttered by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, as well as the president of East Timor and Noble Peace laureate José Ramos-Horta, remain meaningless to the government of Sri Lanka, which considers the systematic subjugation of Tamils the only solution to decades of racial tension...
...Tokyo and Rio de Janeiro. Considering that London is to host the 2012 Summer Games, a sense of continental equity could bolster the IOC's desire to return the event to the Americas. Rio would be the first South American city to host the Games, but there is grave concern about its ability to afford the significant infrastructure and security requirements. American Olympic officials are betting they can sell the IOC on Chicago's robust sports culture and the city's relatively harmonious ethnic and racial diversity. The Olympic Village is to be built along Lake Michigan, just south...