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...hasn't been safe. China's stock markets have fallen by 63% this year. Alerted to the severity of the slide by one of her investment-club friends, Zhu checked on the mutual fund earlier this week as Shanghai's stock index plunged below the 2,000-point level for the first time in nearly two years. Zhu was stunned to see that her investment had lost nearly...
This church (pictured above), near Megalopoli in Greece, used to be part of a village. By the time British photographer Stuart Franklin visited and took the picture in 2007, work crews had leveled the other buildings and scraped out the earth to extract lignite (brown coal), used to fuel a nearby power station. The crews were too superstitious to destroy a holy place, a guide told Franklin. Far above the new ground level, the edifice is now inaccessible...
...elegant but often humorless lawyer who did a brief stint in Europe as a Mossad agent. She is committed to seeking peace with the Palestinians, based on a two-state solution, and she is admired by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, among others, for her level-headedness and tenacity. A mother of three who lives in a modest Tel Aviv apartment, Livni's image as "Mrs. Clean" resonates with Israelis tired of the sleaze associated with Olmert, the target of long police investigations into suspected fraud and bribery...
...another level the Bush Administration's decision to step up attacks in Pakistan is fatally reckless, because the cross-border operations' chances of capturing or killing al Qaeda's leadership are slim. American intelligence isn't good enough for precision raids like this. Pakistan's tribal regions are a black hole that even Pakistani operatives can't enter and come back alive. Overhead surveillance and intercepts do little good in tracking down people in a backward, rural part of the world like this...
...reasons why the U.S. government appeared to reluctantly agree to an AIG bailout on September 16 and stepped in to save the insurance giant, whose global balance sheet of assets and liabilities topped $1 trillion. "Its collapse would be as close to an extinction-level event as the financial markets have seen since the Great Depression," money manager Michael Lewitt wrote in the New York Times...