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...what will emerge on top? The Kindle or some other e-reader? The bigger question is whether readers, used to getting content for free on the Web, will be willing to pay for it on a device that's better suited to reading...
...decline in economic activity - a.k.a. the recession - ends later this year, we won't exactly be out of the woods. "We are so focused on whether recovery will be at the end of this year or the beginning of the next that we lose sight of the more important question," said Mohamed El-Erian, CEO of bond-investing giant Pimco, at a conference in Los Angeles last week. "It's not whether the recession will be over; it's what does the new normal look like...
...testimony to the Joint Economic Committee on Tuesday. That means unemployment will keep rising even after the economy has stopped shrinking. And if unemployment keeps rising, consumer spending won't rebound strongly, bank-loan losses will keep rising and a recessionary relapse isn't out of the question. The next monthly employment report, due Friday, is expected to show continued heavy job losses. So no signs of a reprieve from that quarter...
Besser: That's been a question that has come up many times. The first definitive case of H1N1 was not diagnosed in Mexico, but in San Diego. So at the time that the outbreak was first diagnosed, it was already in the U.S. Our pandemic planning, overarching planning that was done largely around avian flu, had approached or looked at [an outbreak that] would originate off our shores. Then you could send in a team and attempt to contain it, if it were in a small area. Once it moved out of a small area, it's impossible to contain...
...same time, Mexican media outlets have begun to question whether health officials moved quickly enough at the end of March and the beginning of April, when strange flu cases began emerging, to get the strain identified. (See the 5 things you need to know about swine...