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...developing world are only one seemingly minor catastrophe - like a hospital stay - away from financial disaster, so housing loans and insurance and savings products help create and preserve assets, leading to broader benefits for the economy as a whole. I can't tell you how many times I've heard women clients in our network ask, "Why can't I save for my child's education, instead of taking out another loan to pay for it?" The poverty alleviation benefits are magnified when microloans are supplemented with savings and insurance products...
...planned to cut its capital budget in half next year. Other companies are not waiting until next year. Matthew Simmons, who heads Simmons & Co., an investment-banking firm focused on energy companies, says he has been surprised at how fast firms have begun to cut exploration. He has already heard of a number of drilling projects that have been put on hold. "Unless prices rebound fast, energy companies are going to spend less next year," says Simmons...
...participants' responses, NAMI created a program called Six Weeks to Wellness, a weekly class that teaches everything from proper nutrition to controlling anxiety through yoga and meditation. "It's been wildly popular," says Linn. "It helps to say, 'Your health is important to us.' They've never heard that before...
...night of November 21st There was an event where we heard bad verse. Seven people onstage read some poems— Most were outrageous, none were ho-hum. It was at the Blacksmith House, beside Hi-Rise Bakery. And the poems were awful; there was no fakery. It was called the Bad Poets’ Society And this was the eighth time for such impropriety. Once there was a show shortly after 9/11, They’d decided to hold it, although the humor is irreveren’. That show, a success, was the first time Gene Doucette read...
...conversation between i-Pod boy and his friend probably sounds like:“What are you listening to, man?”“The Sad Porcupines.”“Who?”“Oh, you probably haven’t heard them yet. They’re really indie. It’s a parapalegic girl with her twin brother on the tambourine.”“Awesome.”Essentially, two things are required for music to be cool: it has to be kind of angsty...