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...supposed to be a good time for small companies to grab competitors' business and grow - but if Britain's small cap market is anything to go by, many of those firms are struggling. The Alternative Investment Market (AIM), the London Stock Exchange's junior market for dynamic and fast growing smaller firms, has been hammered over the past year. The main index of its shares has slumped by 50% since the same time last year, far more than the losses on the FTSE 100, an index of Britain's leading shares. In the opening quarter of 2009, AIM listed just...
Since most back patients seek help when they're experiencing extreme pain, fast-acting acupuncture may be a reasonable option for them. A year ago, experts at the American College of Physicians and the American Pain Society sanctioned it when they included acupuncture in their recommended treatments for back-pain sufferers. "This study is consistent with those recommendations that if pain relievers aren't helping you, then acupuncture is a reasonable choice," says Nahin...
...auto bailout. With General Motors Corp. running through $10 billion in cash from the federal treasury during the first three months of 2009 and Congress poised to offer consumers substantial tax credits for new, more fuel efficient vehicles, the costs of helping the struggling automobile industry are mounting fast. Throw in special financing for auto loans supported by the Federal Reserve Board, and the aid for automakers now totals $83 billion-and it keeps growing...
...other illegal activities, are buying the loyalty of poverty-stricken young men. This is one country where many insurgents would drop their weapons if someone paid them to do something other than fight. It may come as a surprise to many Americans that fitness and weight-lifting are fast-growing crazes in Kabul and a popular cult figure is California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. The governor's likeness can be found at makeshift gyms throughout the city, which use cinder blocks and old Soviet tank parts for equipment. To many young Afghans, Schwarzenegger embodies the virtues of discipline, goal-setting...
...April 20]. Cash-for-work job programs are the best initial solution in a country where Taliban commanders, financed by opium and other illegal activities, are buying the loyalty of poverty-stricken young men. It may come as a surprise to many Americans that fitness and weight-lifting are fast-growing crazes in Kabul, and a popular cult figure is California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. To many young Afghans, he embodies the virtues of discipline, goal-setting and accomplishment. Afghans prefer the U.S. to the Taliban, but they have suffered too long from 40% unemployment and a reconstruction that never arrived...