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...Ottawa police busted Pierre, but for anyone looking for a job, his existence is still haunting. It's bad enough that folks out of work have to deal with an unemployment rate that is pushing double digits, but now they also have to watch out for a growing wave of fraudsters who are looking to take advantage of their desperation. "The scammers have gotten so much more active since the recession," says Susan Joyce, who runs the work-search site Job-Hunt.org. "There are more of them and they're more sneaky." (See TIME's video on turning blue-collar jobs...
...experts say governments also need to step up enforcement of laws in order to effectively tackle the problem. The U.S. and Britain have special police units to deal with falsified medication, but most other countries lag behind, Franquet says. Kubic says that political efforts to fight the problem have flagged in recent years, mainly because countries like India and Brazil fear that the large amounts of generic drugs they produce legally may be mistakenly targeted in a global crackdown on fake-drug-trafficking. (Read "Are Direct-to-Consumer Drug Ads Doomed...
Kapoor said that he has withheld about five to six months’ worth of rent—though not consecutively—in order to try to negotiate a deal with Dhanda outside of court...
Though professors and students admitted they don't eat out a great deal, several said they will miss Bombay Club—including Law School Professor Alan M. Dershowitz, a Bombay Club regular...
Suppose you won the lottery. What would you do with the money? Countries have faced similar questions. The most common example is a price commodity boom. A country exports a great deal of petroleum or copper or similar commodities. The price of this commodity zooms; the country’s revenues do as well. From Caracas to Lagos to Moscow and Tehran, governments whose countries have benefited from commodity price booms have rarely spent such a bonanza well. Chile witnessed a commodity price boom during this past decade, and it has set an admirable example for others...