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...Trung, the engineer, is rushing to cash in while he can. He expects the unofficial market will eventually be regulated, curbing the potential for instant windfalls. To contain volatility, for example, the Ho Chi Minh Securities Exchange suspends trading in a stock when its price rises or falls by 5% in a day. Gray-market stocks can double in a single deal. "There are no rules on the OTC," says Trung, "so you can get huge profits. That's why we have to take advantage of it now." The madness of crowds, it seems, is alive and well...
...from Shanghai to Miami," and featured an exhibition of Erh's images of both cities. "Shanghai and Miami Beach share a great deal in common," explains the MDPL's spokesman Scott Timm. "They are both economic and business centers for their regions, represent a blending of cultures and both contain a large number of Art Deco structures that must coexist with growing pressure for high-rise development...
Luckily, space is a gold mine. A geologist by training, Benson points out that all those comets and asteroids tumbling around in near-Earth orbit contain water and minerals. Water's components--hydrogen and oxygen--are the building blocks of life and a darn good rocket fuel as well. Some estimates put the number of asteroidal water deposits at 5 million. Some metallic asteroids have 100 times the concentration of gold of any mines on earth today. (Earth's gold results from some of those asteroids crashing into the planet.) "While exploration is going on, we can use those natural...
...also brought a Shi'ite government to power in Baghdad, prompting panic in the region--and the White House--about Iranian domination of the Middle East. As a result, the Bush Administration is frantically trying to assemble a bloc of friendly regimes to contain Tehran--with Saudi Arabia, Iran's longtime rival in the Persian Gulf, as the linchpin. The Saudis have been working hard to make sure Iran's ally Hizballah doesn't overthrow Fouad Siniora's government in Beirut. They've been trying to reconcile the Palestinians, partly to wean the militant Hamas from its funders in Tehran...
...required.In the laboratory on the top floor, a few small pieces of plastic are grouped on the desk of Narayan Khandekar, the senior conservation scientist at Harvard’s Straus Center for Conservation. They’re inconspicuous and easy to pass over, but these plastic cubes contain the kernel of a raging art-world debate.“If you look in,” he explains, “you can see there’s a piece of paper in there. On the surface of the paper—not on the surface...