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...least not so far. We haven't yet heard the last word on ratings agencies...
Investors keen to protect their precious cash have sought security in all the usual places in recent months. The U.S. dollar, the Swiss franc and the Japanese yen - each with a history as a safe haven - have all provided homes for nervous depositors' cash. But as the economies of those three countries flounder, it's time to look around, and smart investors think they've discovered a new harbor to protect them from the choppy economic seas. "The best safe haven currency," analysts at banking giant HSBC wrote in a research note this month, is Norway's. According to HSBC...
...There's also the problem of what Brown calls "magical thinking" among men and women in their 20s. "Many of them have had some unprotected sex and haven't gotten pregnant," she explains. "The longer they go without a pregnancy, the more tempting it is to think that it can't happen to them." Women are also vulnerable to the misconception that a pregnancy - even unintended - can cement a relationship and bring a couple closer together. In fact, all of the statistics show that babies stress relationships; more couples end up splitting (see: Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston) than marrying...
...recently as January 2009, of approximately 14,000 that had been stolen, slightly more than 8,000 have been recovered or are in various stages of being returned to the Iraqi government. In December of 2008, three Iraqi antiquities were recovered in Peru. They haven't been returned to the government yet, but they have been recovered. That fact that they were discovered in Peru highlights a disturbing new development. Recovery was much easier when the markets were limited to New York, London, Paris and Tokyo. Which is what they've been for the last several decades...
International law enforcement and media spend a lot of time talking about all of the extraordinary pieces that have been returned, but I always want to come back to pieces that haven't been returned. My favorite piece is, in my view, the most historically significant piece that is still missing. That's the Lioness attacking a Nubian boy in 8th century B.C., made of Syrian ivory, overlaid with gold, inlaid with lapis lazuli and carnelian. It is still missing. It's always a painful reminder to me, and until each and every piece that has been stolen from...