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...understand the significance of secure hyperlinks or data encryption. Doing so will not only head off the inevitable consumer-protection lawsuits, but will also make it easier for concerned parties to identify abuse of secure data and report it to the appropriate authorities. Any new regulations on this booming sector of the economy will have to be carefully crafted, but protecting the right to privacy should be a primary objective in a digital world...
...We’re not lobbying for anything here,” Stavins said. “Climate change is a complex issue: no single individual has cornered the market on wisdom, nor has any single institution cornered the market on wisdom, nor has any single sector cornered the market on wisdom, nor has any single country cornered the market on wisdom...
...Chinese government not to backtrack on its commitment to "continued currency reform," as a Treasury spokesman put it. The RMB has recently weakened against the dollar, raising global alarm bells that China might try to devalue it as a way to revive its gasping export sector, putting pressure on other exporters to weaken their currencies and stirring up protectionist sentiment in Washington - particularly among U.S. labor unions, which heavily backed President-elect Barack Obama. For its sake, China blandly replied that the recent fluctuations in the RMB market were in line with market forces...
...trading partners nervous with a recent, relatively small reversal of the slow and steady rise in the RMB's value against the dollar. As a senior executive at a state-owned financial institution conceded to TIME two weeks ago, there is undeniable pressure from China's politically powerful export sector to weaken the RMB, which would make Chinese goods more price competitive abroad. If China triggered a wave of devaluations from other East Asian countries that are its export-market competitors, most economists believe the result could be catastrophic, increasing deflationary pressures in the developed world and quite possibly leading...
...ramifications of the economic crisis spread beyond the financial sector, Harvard Law School students are finding themselves with fewer job offers than in years past...