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News that Japan's three biggest financial institutions - which have all recently invested in foreign financial institutions - were considering selling new shares to shore up their [working capital] triggered the decline. The move would dilute banks' earnings per-share, compounding investor worry that the appreciation of the yen will further reduce share value and corporate profits. Mitsubishi UFJ, like Japan's other mega-banks, avoided damage caused by the subprime crisis, but its stock portfolio is now taking a hit as the Nikkei and Tokyo Stock Price Index (Topix) continue to fall and wipe value from its balance sheet...
...Fuzhou University in China, plans to put the prize money towards deploying the technology in China this spring. According to Navarro, China currently pays $40 million for Internet access in each of its 30 largest cities, but with the new mesh technology, costs could be reduced to $3 million per city. In a traditional wireless network, computers rely upon a single access point. In a mesh system, each computer can act as an access point. “This reduction in costs would allow us to reach developing communities,” Navarro said. The judging panel appeared...
...with Damascus following the 2003 invasion. Analysis of al-Qaeda documents seized by American troops in Sinjar in northern Iraq last year suggested that 90% of foreign fighters entering Iraq came from Syria. However, the figures have dropped significantly, according to U.S. officials. In July, an estimated 20 fighters per month were reported to be entering Iraq, an 80% drop compared with a year earlier. In September, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told the pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat that the number of foreign fighters crossing from Syria into Iraq was down. She ascribed the reduction to the efforts...
...rise at a much higher rate, so town electorates must pass Prop 2½ “overrides” to avoid deep cuts. When an override fails, nurses are laid off; schools close; 911 response times get longer. Question 1 would have the effect of several failed overrides per community—in all 351 communities in the commonwealth...
...couple of weeks. Gordon returned this week and received more carries for more success as the game wore on Saturday, including the game-sealing touchdown run. The Crimson entered the contest with the second-best rushing offense in an admittedly pass-happy Ivy League, but managed just 3.0 yards per carry and 88 yards against a Princeton defense that was giving up 154.0 yards per game and 4.0 yards per carry coming in. On the upside, the Crimson tallied 60 rushing yards in the third quarter alone, kick-starting its second-half comeback. “Clutch plays on defense...