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...arrests of "suspicious persons" were made. And on Monday, arson and murder charges were levied against a 65-year-old man for allegedly torching parts of Aereopolis, in the southern Peloponnese, where six people were killed. Among them: a French couple trapped in a flaming ravine during a hike in the wooded area. Their charred bodies were found locked in an embrace...
...really likes to hike, take picnics, look at the animals. Typical stuff...
...Chinese officials hope he's right, because the country's policy options are limited. A rate hike would likely only increase the flow of speculative "hot money" into the country from abroad, says Jing Ulrich, chairman of China equities at JP Morgan. And excess liquidity (read: too much money chasing too few goods) is at least partly to blame for China's rising-prices problem. Although some say the July spike was due to short-term food shortages, the increases "are a lot less temporary than some people think," argues Michael Pettis, a professor of finance at Peking University. "China...
...shaping up to be a bad couple of weeks for the tobacco lobby. First, a Senate panel approved a 61-cent hike in federal taxes on all packs of smokes, and next week a second committee is expected take up legislation to have tobacco regulated by the Food and Drug Administration...
Published in the June newsletter of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, the article entreats universities to tell the RIAA to “take a hike...