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...suddenly the IMF is the center of attention again, and this time in a new and unaccustomed role: as the hero of the hour, the institution seen as best able to rescue the collapsing world economy. A principal outcome of the April 2 meeting of G-20 leaders in London was an agreement to triple the IMF's resources to $750 billion, and to allow it to issue a further $250 billion on its own. Part of that money is supposed to go to countries suddenly in financial straits, and part is designed to serve as a more general liquidity...
...scheduling policies, students looking for help with computer troubleshooting on Saturdays and Sundays are no longer able to take advantage of the Science Center’s computer clinic. Yet according to Noah S. Selsby ’94, a spokesperson for FAS IT, the cuts in weekend hours resulted not from FAS’s economic woes, but rather from the results of a statistical evaluation of the Clinic’s weekend traffic, which indicated an average of only three client-calls per hour worker shift on weekends. The clinic, located on the building’s second...
Birders Paradise. At Aska Lodge in Georgia's Blue Ridge mountains, an hour and a half from Atlanta, the thrashers, goldfinches, ruby-breasted grosbeaks, red-shouldered hawks and hummingbirds are out and about. Stay two nights and receive a $20 lodging credit, a Georgia Birds pocket guide and a birdhouse to take home. Rates start at $96 midweek. Through June 26. 178 Calen Drive, Blue Ridge...
...waste if it's not auctioned off. The grocers get the proceeds from the sale, and the auctioneer takes a cut for commission. DeHart, for example, says he usually receives about 30% of an auction's proceeds. He started running grocery auctions three months ago. During one five-hour auction in March, bidders paid $10,000 for groceries that retailed for $26,000. (See pictures of the world's longest yard sale...
...that is, when Taipei and Beijing agreed to start direct flights between Taiwan and China and open up tourism on the island to 3,000 Chinese visitors every day. The direct flights were a relief to the four million Taiwanese who travel to China every year, cutting a seven-hour slog to Shanghai, which had to be made through a third city like Hong Kong, to an 80-minute trip. The floodgates opened the other way, too: at first, a trickle of some 200 Chinese tourists each day in August, and now, seven months later, a pouring...