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...Will more companies have to step in and prop up the value of their money market funds? Probably. Will more funds break the buck? Maybe. But short of having all your money in FDIC-insured bank accounts, which most likely carry lower yields, there aren't that many options that are safer...
...anyone can click a shutter and produce a technically competent picture. So it's appropriate that the first-ever Singapore International Photography Festival (SIPF), set to take place from Oct. 8 to 31, took an egalitarian approach to submissions. "Our curators went through a blind selection process, and to lower barriers to entry, we [decided to] undertake the printing of all the works," says Gwen Lee, the festival's director and founder of the 2902 photography gallery. It's a generous move by the not-for-profit festival, given that a digital print of around...
...scale of the tragedy. "Often the people in the cities do not know what is happening in their own rural areas," says Sarah Brown, wife of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and patron of the White Ribbon Alliance, a global advocacy organization that works with governments to lower maternal mortality rates. Brown--who lost a baby 10 days after giving birth in 2001--says that when she tells heads of state and their spouses how many women die in childbirth, "they are aghast...
...feeling that has been established as universal: a right of passage for the under-20 set (cf. any movie about high-schoolers ever) and an iconized behavior of the cool (cf. “Rebel Without a Cause” or any show on the CW) that in the lower end of the cool spectrum is more often than not poorly mimed (cf. Lily, who has recently decided that she will only respond to her new name Veona, by the way). Needless to say, if you were to hear a song with a line like, “You?...
...Religion. In a poll of 1700 respondents, 55% answered affirmatively to the statement, "I was protected from harm by a guardian angel." The responses defied standard class and denominational assumptions about religious belief; the majority held up regardless of denomination, region or education - though the figure was a little lower (37%) among respondents earning more than $150,000 a year...