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Exemplifying the fears bedeviling investors today is the daily (hourly) drumbeat about the dollar and the deficits, especially the "unsustainable" current account deficit. The mantra should be familiar: the U.S. saves too little and consumes too much. We are mortgaging our future, consuming our seed corn. If foreigners stop buying our debt, the dollar will collapse and interest rates soar. The only direction for the dollar is down, and so on. It was reported that former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker puts the chances of a financial crisis at 75% over the next few years...
Students socialized, flipped through hip hop magazines, and ate fried chicken, corn bread, and collard greens...
...first gathering, 18 (or 21, depending on whose account you follow) members of the class of 1796 gathered in the dorm room of classmate Nymphas Hatch. The group decided that, at every meeting, one member would provide a pot of hasty pudding, an early American snack of corn meal and molasses. According to a 1973 Crimson article, Pudding members added brandy to the traditional recipe. Relative chaos ensued...
Some of the imaginative food you'll get to experience? How about double-baked beetroot and rocket soufflé, springbok loin in balsamic broth with curried gnocchi, orange-glazed ostrich filet with sweet-corn and basil pancakes or bobotie (a curried meat and custard dish)? Or maybe you're hankering for karroo lamb and rose-petal ice cream...
According to interviews with refugees in South Korea and more than a dozen people who routinely slip between China and North Korea, Hoeryong, which is located on the Chinese border in the north of the country, boasts a central market that teems with consumer goods: sacks of rice and corn, boxes of apples, bananas and tangerines. On wooden tables under makeshift awnings, merchants peddle not just pork and fish but also Japanese televisions and VCRs, South Korean cosmetics, fashionable sportswear from China and illegal sex videotapes from western countries. If you know whom to talk to, you can even purchase...