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After a year-long stint at a European investment bank and another at Enron, Iris M. Mack signed on to be a quantitative analyst for Harvard Management Company in early 2002, hoping, she says, to find job security and distance from the risky trading and accounting practices that forced her last employer into bankruptcy in the company charged with managing Harvard’s endowment...
...many Merkel critics say Germany needs to act now. Merkel's wait-and-see policy just isn't working, they argue. Economists now predict that Germany's export-dependent economy will contract by a record 7% this year. And the latest data from the European Central Bank show that despite the stimulus packages and bailouts across Europe, the region's banks still are not lending money. The volume of lending to the private sector in the eurozone, the 16 countries that use the common European currency, dropped 0.1% in February from the month before and lending to businesses also slipped...
...objection may not be entirely self-serving. The European reservations mirror those of many members of Congress and a number of economists. Although the same analysis will be rehashed in London, the question is whether the financial world has changed enough during the two months since the G-20 gathering was planned for the major premises of the either side of the debate to have been altered. (See TIME's special package on The G-20 summit...
...mother and infant during pregnancy and delivery, but also raise the chances of later developmental problems for babies who are often born prematurely. Although other studies have also shown the benefits of using elective single-embryo transfer to reduce multiple births, and the technique has become standard in several European countries, there is elsewhere a persistent belief that fewer embryo transfers will yield fewer pregnancies. The idea that more is better is difficult to shake...
Nickels and Dimes. Low-cost European carrier Ryanair has announced it will do away with its airport check-in counters and begin charging customers a $6.50 fee to check in online, which, after October 1, will be your only option...