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Chinalco, China's huge metals company, recently spent $19.5 billion buying into global mining giant Rio Tinto (RTP). Rio needed the money to decrease its debt. There is speculation that China wanted to secure access to minerals. To that extent, the investment was a "strategic" one on China's part. The Australian government considered blocking the deal but did not. Perhaps debt-laden Rio made the case that it needed the money too much to help it through the economic downturn. (See pictures of China's electronic waste village...
...heavy deposits of iron in its water. In ages past, a fjord ran through the area and brought with it swarms of marine life, but more than 1.5 million years ago the ice began to rise, and a pool of seawater became trapped - and then capped - creating a huge, salty deposit buried hundreds of yards beneath the glaciers...
...seen before, which is something psychologists call the “mere exposure effect.” The frequency of contact consumers have with a product also plays a role. If Delta Air Lines announces a new design for its signs and logos, it’s not a huge deal because people only fly infrequently. On the other hand, when customers use a product every day, the effects of a redesign can be jarring...
Permitting students to use the club will not immediately have “a huge effect on club finances,” but students may be more likely to become club members as alumni if they were involved with the club while on campus, Shefte wrote...
...Masons. "But the vast majority of what's on the service is not infringing. That's an important thing for courts." Like Kazaa, another file-sharing site punished in the courts in recent years, the Pirate Bay works slightly differently. The site has "relatively few legitimate uses, but a huge number of unlawful" ones, says Robertson...