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...Click here for pictures of Madagascar's flora and fauna. Click here for pictures of primates on the danger list. See TIME's pictures of the week here...
...which defaulted on its debt when the markets shut down; it was rescued by an investment arm of the state energy giant Gazprom. Other erstwhile high-flying financial firms in Russia remain at risk. According to the business newspaper Kommersant, the Russian central bank has drawn up a "red list" of 15 other second-tier banks that, like KIT, are in urgent need of financial assistance...
...country's latest bout of economic instability will frighten away, possibly for years to come, the foreign capital the country needs to thrive. No, answers Marc Lhermitte, a partner at Ernst & Young, which in September published a survey of the attractiveness of leading cities. Moscow scored high on the list; Chinese investors ranked the Russian capital just behind Paris, for example. Despite all the recent economic and geopolitical turmoil, Russia is becoming "a significant destination" for international companies, Lhermitte says. The crisis doesn't seem to have made too much of an impression on Russia's superrich, either. When Larry...
...North Korea Just kidding After expelling U.N. inspectors on Sept. 24, North Korea announced that it would reactivate its Yongbyon nuclear plant. The nation began dismantling the complex last year but reversed its stance in August when the U.S. failed to remove North Korea from an official terrorism list. Meanwhile, speculation continues over the health of leader Kim Jong-Il, still absent from public events...
...Anyone on a pro-choice mailing list is acquainted with documents like the Center for Reproductive Rights' 124-page What if Roe Fell or NARAL's "Who Decides" web-compilation of state profiles. But Linton's work represents a whole new level of play; and, while the book never totally acknowledges it, it's written for the opposing team...