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The price war began last month when brokers began aggressively cutting commissions on stock trades to grab the attention - and business - of many self-directed investors and independent financial advisers who had fled large brokerage firms during the economic and stock market meltdowns.
Cairo, Ill., sits on a narrow peninsula at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, in the heart of a region called Little Egypt for the resemblance it bears to the flat, loamy landscape of the Nile River Delta. Charles Dickens, after a visit in 1842, dubbed Cairo a...
The residents of Cairo are nonplussed by the newcomers, whose presence they view as voyeuristic - and temporary. Johnston and his friends aren't the first to come into town with grand dreams of urban revitalization. "People in Cairo are used to people coming to help and then leaving," says Donna...
Advocates of GM crops have also been quick to point out that China last year announced it would allow genetically modified rice. Comparing India and China is a favorite pastime of Indian economists and commentators. The country's attempts to outdo its northern neighbor are a national obsession. But in...
Proof that much work remains to combat both was provided on Feb. 4 when the U.S. Senate's subcommittee on investigations released its inquiry into money transfers from top African officials to the U.S. via loopholes in a section of the Patriot Act designed to crack down on illegal terrorism...