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...tact, however, Boutros-Ghali is not averse to holding up a mirror to the rich nations every once in a while. On the eve of last month's G-20 summit in London, he warned that giant stimulus plans like those announced by the U.S. and the U.K. could lead to a humanitarian catastrophe in the developing world, because borrowing by rich countries would divert funds from the poor. "People are going to die, babies are not going to get the proper nourishment," Boutros-Ghali said. "Poverty is at the doorstep, something needs to be done." (See pictures of poverty...
...warnings, echoed by prominent economists, were heeded. At the London summit, the rich nations, wrangled by U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, decided to triple the IMF's resources to $750 billion. After nearly a decade on the sidelines, it was suddenly a player again. "The IMF is back," crowed IMF managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Boutros-Ghali is more cautious: "Now we need to make sure the money shows up, that it wasn't just pious words." (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...Even if they were, though, and even if paleontologists all agreed on the matter, Ida could at best be considered a first step on an evolutionary pathway that took another 40 million years to reach the divergence point between chimps and our earliest hominid ancestors. (See the secrets of London's buried bones...
...Bouchon Breton: Located in Spitalfields, London, this brasserie de luxe, www.lebouchon.co.uk/breton/index.php, is already renowned for its impressive Gallic cheese trolley featuring more than 40 varieties, from Le Testard from the Hautes-Alpes to the Corsican Fleur de Maquis. Now frommelier Jean Claude Ali Cherif has started offering a series of regional-cheese master classes, coupled with unusual wine pairings, on the last Tuesday of each month. Ali Cherif's knowledge, built up over 20 years, is formidable and his repartee amusing, inspiring and impressively practical, with advice on how to look after cheeses and when to enjoy them...
...gets an idea, he goes and does it, and gets in trouble." -Yvonne Yettaw, his ex-wife (Times of London...