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Supermarkets are struggling to meet consumer demand for bananas as a fad diet sweeps the country. The popularity of the scheme, which prescribes a banana and a glass of warm water every morning, has been fed by online social networks, a best-selling book called Morning Banana Diet and celebrity testimonials. Leading banana importer Dole Japan reported that sales of the fruit are up 25% since the same period last year. Yet despite the empty shelves and rising prices, nutrition experts have been skeptical, saying bananas do not directly trigger weight loss...
...Weinberg recalled that he once walked in on Chalfie shaving his legs in preparation for a swim meet...
...Part of the failure is due to mismanagement by the U.N., the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and other NGOs. Even though stupidity has been rife in implementation, the wealthiest donor nations have defaulted on pledges and must now increase aid by $18 billion a year to meet the original goal. Assistance has been anemic when it was supposed to be titanic. Bad situations will likely worsen with the financial implosion, especially in Latin America and Eastern Europe, where countries depend heavily upon foreign capital. Turbulence will mean compression of capital flows, labor immobility, and restricted access...
Representative Peter F. Welch, Vermont’s Democratic congressman, said in an interview yesterday that his bill will likely require endowment spending to meet a five-percent floor over rolling three-to-five year periods, instead of a strict limit that colleges meet the five-percent target each year...
...Before the long-simmering credit crunch kicked into high gear in mid-September, municipalities were already facing strong headwinds. In a survey of 319 city finance officers conducted from April to June, the National League of Cities found that 64% of respondents said their cities were less able to meet fiscal needs than in 2007. Cities get 28% of their funding from property taxes, which the finance officers surveyed expected to be down 3.6% this year, thanks to falling home values. Two other important sources of tax revenue for many municipalities - sales tax and income tax - were also expected...