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Your book includes an index of more than 500 invented languages, though you're quick to point out that no one really knows how many there are. How did you decide which languages to explore? I knew more about the famous ones, like Esperanto and Klingon. But the others I discovered in libraries. Every library you go into will have these little pamphlets self-published by some dreamer with a plan. I got very curious about the lives of the people who devoted themselves to these doomed projects...
...What a difference a financial crisis makes. After the worldwide economic boom went bust, demand abruptly evaporated for many commodities. The Dow Jones - AIG commodity price index has shed more than half its value since mid-2008. The most visible turnaround has been in oil. A year ago, Western governments were pleading with Persian Gulf oil states to ramp up production as oil sped toward $150 a barrel; today, OPEC is twisting off the spigot in an attempt to support crude prices around $50. Some experts believe prices may stay depressed for years to come, due to greater energy efficiency...
India's benchmark stock index on Monday surged a stunning 17%, a record one-day gain powered by investor euphoria over a resounding victory in nationwide elections by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's Congress Party...
...Less than a minute after the market opened, share trading was halted for the first time ever when sharp gains in the Sensitive Index, or Sensex, triggered an automatic suspension. Trading resumed two hours later but so-called "circuit breakers" were again tripped by heavy buying in a matter of seconds, and markets were shut down for the rest of the day. The Sensex closed up 2,099 points at 14,272. India's Nifty index was also closed after gains of more than 15%. (Read about the key players to emerge from India's elections...
...Vanguard Emerging Markets, bringing the value of that investment to over $54 million, up from the less than $1 million invested there in the previous quarter. The largest holding listed in the latest 13F filings continued to be the $205 million invested in the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index Fund. But both the value of that investment and the number of shares owned have declined since the last filing, which showed University holdings as of Dec. 31. Harvard then had $224 million invested in the fund—a substantial dollar value reduction from the $463 million it had invested...