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...Investment drops in a period of deflation. Who wants to put money into assets which may continue to lose value? Who wants to buy goods and services and hire people when all of those may cost less in the future? (See pictures of TIME's Wall Street covers...
...Consumers and businesses who believe prices will fall forever may hasten a depression by deferring purchases. Deflation, however, may be the only floor that the economy can hit to prevent the global financial system from entering the worst period in over a century...
...traffic has increased markedly during that same period, growing from 310 million airline passengers in 1980 to a record 749 million in 2007, meaning the skies are more crowded for both birds and Airbuses...
Pressure is mounting on Israel and Hamas to find a way to end the war in Gaza. Both sides have responded positively, if tentatively, to Egyptian proposals for a phased truce that would begin with a lull in fighting for a defined period (10 days, by some accounts). That interlude would then allow for the brokering of a more comprehensive cease-fire. But each side's goals from any truce remain antagonistic to the other's, and reaching an agreement that bridges the vast gap between them remains a herculean diplomatic challenge...
...field of international intellectual-property law, which is currently grabbing public, not to mention legal, attention as many of the icons of the 20th century - from cartoon characters to rock 'n' roll artists - lose copyright protection in Europe. The issue generating the most publicity is Europe's briefer copyright period - record labels and publishing houses argue that it degrades copyright protection in the U.S. by allowing cheap and illegal European CDs and Internet downloads into the American market...