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...parallel, much of oil's decline in prices since the summer was spurred by speculators unwinding their positions, as they needed to liquidate to cover losses. But gold prices have not followed oil prices downhill. It is clear that new money has entered the gold market. Many who sold their stocks and other assets have reallocated into the gold market, instead of leaving it to cover losses...
...think especially with the downturn in the economy, we need hope, some forward movement in creative ways,” Lusk said, suggesting that University and city planners look at constructing European-style, barrier-separated, bicycle tracks with a parallel sidewalk in Allston. She noted that because Boston is sorely lacking in bike lanes and cycle tracks, such a development strategy would make Allston a model for alternative transportation...
...talks have been held in parallel to negotiations orchestrated by Senator Edward M. Kennedy, chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, which has principally involved outside groups like insurers, doctors, labor and big business. Aides to the bipartisan group of lawmakers, citing the delicacy of the talks, provided no details of the potential agreement. However, the two main sticking points remain how to pay for a plan that some estimate could cost as much as $1 trillion and how to integrate a public, government-run plan into the private system, two aides say. (Read about Obama...
Though advances have been made in the long suffering effort to contain international drug use and production, a parallel surge in drug-related organized crime has popped up as a unfortunate and unintended consequence. Antonio Maria Costa, Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, addresses this nasty side effect in a paper slated for delivery at the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna on March 11th. Costa urges countries to "look at drug control as a series of inter-related factors where each intervention has an impact on others," emphasizing the need to incorporate innovative...
...advances in techniques like cryopreservation (the freezing and storing of eggs and embryos, for example, and now also ovarian tissue for transplants) have increased many women's chances of pregnancy, IVF is still a time-consuming and expensive process - and one that holds no guarantees. Success rates with IVF parallel fertility rates in the general population, dramatically declining with age. After 40, success rates drop to as low as 23%, and after age 43, Silber says, pregnancy is very rare...