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...shattering months of calm on currency markets, causing a mini-swoon on some stock exchanges and prompting French Finance Minister Thierry Breton to call for "great collective vigilance." The dollar has also slid against the British pound, which closed last week just a few cents short of $2, its highest in 14 years. Many investors are betting that the decline will continue. "The dollar has no friends in currency markets at the moment," says Neil Mackinnon, chief currency strategist for the British financial firm ECU Group...
...London, reckons the dollar will fall to between $1.42 and $1.45 against the euro by mid-2007, but even at that level, "we do not expect any significant impact on overall growth" in Europe. German machinery companies are currently operating at over 90% of their potential capacity, the highest since 1990, and are thus well able to weather a weaker dollar, says Olaf Wortmann, an economist at the German Engineering Federation...
Appropriate obstetric care can help prevent premature labor. An increasing number of Americans cannot afford medical insurance, and there is a high percentage of the uninsured among younger, less financially secure people. Since this group tends to have the highest rate of pregnancy, it's possible that premature labor may worsen as America's health-care crisis worsens. I encounter young couples all the time who are prospective parents but have no way of accessing appropriate antenatal care. This makes no sense when 16% of the U.S. gross domestic product is spent on health care...
...Celebrity spokeswoman for the Ab Roller B) The romantic lead in a new Tim McGraw film about a down-on-his-luck bull rider C) The highest paid Hollywood actress in 2006, with a $17 million paycheck D) Philip Roth's new fictional alter...
...God’s power, and this just underscores the album’s schizophrenia. Snoop tries everything he can to demonstrate he’s still relevant. He’s not. Snoop thinks he can still be more than a musical whore lending his wares to the highest bidders, but as the man himself once said, “bitch, please...