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...Europe, the euro has slipped by almost 7% against the dollar. The Greek crisis is proving to be a crucial test for the long-term viability of Europe's common currency itself. Nouriel Roubini, one of the economists who predicted the global financial crisis, and his colleague Arnab Das argued in a Feb. 3 opinion piece for the Financial Times that unless Europe works out some formal rules to deal with individual states' problems, "doubts about EMU [Economic and Monetary Union] sustainability will return in every downturn. Sooner or later these doubts will be validated." (See pictures of the global...
...keep a low profile. Her rise to prominence went all but unnoticed, except by the rivals she deftly derailed along the way. Elected to the first parliament of the reunited Germany, she was appointed a Cabinet minister by Chancellor Helmut Kohl just one year later. He called her das Mädchen, "the girl." She was used to sexism. "There was no real equality in the German Democratic Republic," she says. "There were no female industrialists or members of the politburo." So she smiled her feline smile and made no protest but quickly distanced herself from her patronizing patron once...
...Indian government has added new vessels to tighten up security along its long maritime border with Pakistan. But Behera estimates that getting through a checkpoint costs only about Rs. 5,000 ($111). Despite the necessary investment in new boats and training, corruption is still a vulnerability, says Pushpita Das, who is researching coastal security at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses. "The liability still remains...
...games at UCL is attracting the attention of some of London's major museums, including visits from collections officials at the British Museum, the Fashion Museum and the Imperial War Museum, says UCL collections review assistant Subhadra Das. "I think they're finding it quite liberating," she says. "We're in a lucky position being a university collection, because we can talk about things that maybe bigger museums feel they...
...sure, not everything in a museum's collection is worth keeping, let alone putting on display. Das puts it diplomatically: "Sometimes [donors]bring us wonderful things, and sometimes, well, they're not quite...