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Politics is out. Dancing with the Stars only takes politicians who are mildly loathed, like Tom DeLay. He probably can't even do a book. "I would not be at all interested in him or his story," says a publisher who has had success with celebrity memoirs. "I can't imagine - and I have a good imagination - what he could possibly write about that people would pay money for or that would be credible...
...more into its factories in Thailand to churn out more fridges, washing machines and air conditioners. Indonesia is so jittery by the prospect of such moves that the country's Trade Minister, Mari Pangestu, has notified the secretariat of ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) that Jakarta wants to delay the inclusion of hundreds of domestically produced items like textiles, food products and electronics from the accord, fearing that local Indonesian industries could be swamped by cheap Chinese goods...
...other big difference is that while most residential mortgages are chopped into securities and sold, the bulk of commercial mortgages - and virtually all land and construction loans - stay on banks' books. Banks have leeway to delay recognizing losses on these loans - that is, they don't have to "mark to market." With banks facing total commercial real estate losses of $200 billion to $300 billion or more by Parkus' estimate, regulators have so far encouraged banks to exploit that leeway. (See the financial crisis after one year...
This extra brainpower can help an aging mind compensate and, in essence, delay the onset of dementia. "The longer you put it off, the less time people will suffer from it," says Yaakov Stern, a Columbia University cognitive psychologist, who has found that people with more education and more stimulating jobs are at a lower risk for developing Alzheimer...
...found themselves engaged in clashes with Palestinians demonstrating at the Gaza border against Egypt's enforcement of the Israeli blockade against the territory. Hamas, the Islamist party that governs Gaza and which is at odds with the Egyptian regime, had called the protest to pressure the Egyptians over their delay of a Gaza-bound aid convoy. Others came to demonstrate against Egypt's construction of an underground steel barrier meant to block off the smuggling tunnels that provide both a vital lifeline to Gaza's blockaded economy and a pipeline to resupply the arsenals of Hamas...