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Last week, as U.S. officials were finalizing their blueprint for how Iraq's postwar oil industry will function, oil producers were jostling to protect hard - won market share in advance of a resumption of exports from Iraq. OPEC nations, in a meeting in Vienna, agreed to a slight drop in output to try to support prices in the short term, although the cartel also announced an increase in official production targets. And in Russia, the world's second - largest oil exporter, the energy industry received a boost when companies Yukos and Sibneft said they had agreed in principle...
...called after the government tripled the cost of fuel because of a shortage. As commuter and bus fares doubled, workers faced having to spend up to two-thirds of their income on transportation. The ZCTU dismissed the wage increase as "fire fighting," saying it would do little to protect workers from poor economic planning by the government. This was the second strike in just over a month, as the country faces its worst political and economic crisis in President Robert Mugabe's 23-year rule. TIMEeurope.com: Zimbabwe in TIME Winnie's Woes SOUTH AFRICA Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, ex-wife...
...protect myself from SARS? If you live in a country (i.e. the U.S.) where no concentrated outbreak has been documented, you don't need to worry too much about contracting SARS. People who live in hard-hit areas like Hong Kong, which is adjacent to Guangdong, should follow local health officials' instructions and keep their distance from people known to be infected. Travelers should note that WHO now recommends that travel to Hong Kong or the Guangdong Province, as well as Beijing and Shanxi Province, China, and Toronto be postponed, unless the travel is "essential...
...democracy, English forms of land tenure, Common Law and English banking practices. It is notable that Ferguson’s list closely parallels the three-point recipe for successful economic development that Summers gave last week: integration into the world economy, sound fiscal and monetary policy and institutions to protect property rights and enforce contracts. Indeed, we see the results of Summers’ recipe in Ferguson’s book. He cites the work of political scientist Seymour Lipset, who showed that countries that are former British colonies had a substantially better chance of achieving “enduring...
...Individual travelers risk their own infection, of course, but they can also spread the disease to the wider population...We must take precautions to protect our public health,” Kirby wrote...