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...rate hike is by no means guaranteed?the BOJ could wait until its next meeting in August or beyond. But 32 out of 41 analysts and traders surveyed by Reuters last week said they expect an increase at this week's meeting. Yasunari Ueno, chief market economist at Mizuho Securities, says, "I put the possibility for a hike this week at 80% to 90%." If it doesn't happen, there's nonetheless a widespread belief that it will inevitably do so in the next few months?and that the first rise will likely be followed by more...
...long history of selling its advanced weapons to countries in the Middle East, and it operates a black market in other forms of contraband. Like Pakistan's rogue nuclear engineer A.Q. Khan, North Korean officials might be tempted to sell the ingredients of their arsenal to terrorists. Finally, many expect North Korea's failed economy to lead one day to the regime's collapse. Who then might get its loose nukes...
...Sleep Foundation, sleep deprivation costs U.S. business more than $100 billion a year in lost productivity and damage to workers' health and safety. An estimated 80,000 drivers a day, for example, doze off while behind the wheel. And supporting those exhausted legions creates even more of them. "People expect to pull in at Starbucks at 5 a.m. to get coffee," says Dr. Charles Czeisler of Harvard's Brigham & Women's Hospital. "But the one who prepares it is setting...
...Grassley suggested to TIME that "the FBI needs to appeal to the patriotic spirit of its senior managers." But beyond that, the bureau is offering few tangible perks to make working there more attractive. Nor will the jobs be getting easier--Mason says new recruits should expect to be rotated around the country and the world, even if it means uprooting their families, a practice that, for budgetary reasons, had waned in recent years...
...silent treatment that apprehended perpetrators can give. His right foot was mangled-bits of sneaker mixed in with clotted blood, bone, cartilage and tendon. His left leg was hanging by skin. The jagged stump of his tibia stuck out just below the knee-pretty much what you would expect from the wheel of a subway train. Even in Harlem, this was pretty...