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...letter grades to everything from General Electric's bonds to Malaysia's sovereign debt, indicating the chances that investors will lose money. The CEOs of the three largest agencies - Moody's, Standard and Poor's and Fitch - were assailed by Congress in October for the way their firms made record profits while raising few, if any, red flags about how massively risky mortgage-related securities had become...
...While the geologic record shows the earth has experienced rapid sea-level rise in the past, during the sharp warm-ups that follow the end of ice ages, those big melts have occurred when the world had much less ice than it does now. Scientists are unsure of how quickly rising temperatures from global warming could destabilize and melt our existing sheets - the working assumption has been that such major melting and subsequent sea-level rise would take centuries, if not longer, even in a warmer world. (See TIME's special report on the environment...
...advantage. Or maybe the Crimson has worked the system. Either way, the team is 10-22 after sweeping Yale in yesterday’s doubleheader at O’Donnell Field, but is still very much alive in the Rolfe Division race thanks to its 8-4 record against Ivy opponents...
Americans long ago came to the rational conclusion that we can trade with communist China and still criticize its rights record. But communist Cuba keeps us in a trance of irrational contradictions. That is, perhaps, until now. As Barack Obama packs for the Summit of the Americas this week in Trinidad, where he hopes to improve Washington's dismal relations south of the border, the U.S. President knows that Cuba policy will be the marquee topic. "Any solution to the U.S.'s problems in Latin America has to go through Havana," says Larry Birns, head of the Council on Hemispheric...
...That may be changing. On April 9, John Hunt, a 56-year-old nurse in Croydon, south London, managed to have his official baptism record amended. Religious leaders from the Southwark Diocese had previously refused to delete Hunt's record of baptism, claiming it was an important historical detail. But after Hunt published a renouncement of his Christianity in the London Gazette, a journal of record dating back to the 17th century, those same religious leaders agreed to include it alongside his official baptism entry. "It's about time some of us stood up to be counted," Hunt said after...