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...racing along at a 12% growth clip - faster than China. Estonia is one of only two new European Union members to have a budget surplus, and its national debt will have all but disappeared by the end of the decade. Naturally, there are growing pains: the unemployment rate has fallen so sharply, from 14% in 2000 to about 4% today, that businesses are scrambling to find workers. But even if growth slows a little to a more sustainable rate, Estonia could catch up with Portugal and Greece on a per-capita basis in about a decade. "This is the best...
...Hassan Nasrallah last week as he addressed a cheering audience of hundreds of thousands of supporters in southern Beirut.Nasrallah’s appearance at Hezbollah’s victory rally illustrates the importance of a continued international commitment to restoring stability to the region, a commitment that has fallen on deaf ears since the United Nations (UN) brokered ceasefire came into effect this summer. Hezbollah will continue to pose a threat to the stability of Lebanon and the security of the region as long as it maintains its arsenal (Nasrallah claimed that Hezbollah still possesses 20,000 rockets...
...elected as Prime Minister by the Diet this week, continues financial progress. While NPLs at the megabanks were down to 1.8% of total loans as of March, they remain at 4.5% at the regional banks. The latter lend almost as much as the big banks. Furthermore, NPLs have fallen partly because more than 26% of all loans charge an interest rate of less than 1% and 9% charge less than 0.5%. How will these borrowers fare as interest rates return to normal...
...really a call to the next generation to take the tools and apply them in a bold way. It’s an opportunity for young scientists to think big," said Eric S. Lander, director of the Broad Institute. "The [National Institute of Health] budget has fallen 12 percent, and it’s sending a message to young scientists that [ambition is] not valued. This could not be further from the truth...
...army convoy rattled through Al-Adhamiya like a carnival roller coaster, each turn as blind as the next. Not that the soldiers could see much anyway. Night had fallen on the old Baghdad quarter, a byzantine maze lit only by kerosene lamps flickering from rugged stone houses. We moved warily in the darkness, patrolling for insurgents in blind alleys custom-made for ambushes and narrow passages perfect for concealing roadside bombs. It was anyone's bet who faced a more dire risk, the hunted in terrorist cells or the hunters in humvees, along with whom I was riding under...