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...euro's 10th anniversary will see the euro zone take on a 16th member, Slovakia. Eight other central and East European countries have set the goal of joining within the next six years, including Poland, whose political establishment dropped its longtime opposition after a recent run on the Polish zloty. The euro has found some other unexpected converts too, thanks to the financial crisis. The Danes voted against joining the euro zone in 2000, but they are set to hold another referendum in March. Iceland - not even an E.U. member - is pondering "unilateral euroization" after seeing its krona plunge nearly...
...world's largest shipbroker, announced that new orders had dropped from 378 vessels in October 2007 to just 37 last October. In November, New York?based Genco Shipping and Trading wrote off a $53 million deposit in order to get out of a $530 million deal to buy six new vessels, freeing up liquidity and strengthening the firm's "ability to act opportunistically," a Genco spokesman said. As companies pull back to protect their bottom lines, many are simply taking ships out of service, says Kriton Lendoudis, managing director of Athens-based Evalend Shipping. Hundreds of vessels have been laid...
...made from leftover ingredients. But cost-reduction be damned—student uproar ensued over House e-mail lists. While other colleges seemed to have retained their usual offerings, HUDS had suddenly revamped its menu without any student input, students complained. HUDS responded swiftly with an open letter outlining six days of new menu changes. Though executive director Ted A. Mayer conceded that some of the cuts were “overzealous and, quite frankly, unnecessary,” he emphasized the inevitable financial constraints and need for student input in making changes...
...What are its benefits? The biggest thing for me, besides the health benefits, is the emotional connection you have with your child. You can't really compare breast milk and formula. Breast milk is living and constantly changing. I breast-fed my son until he was about six months old. That was before I was enlightened. My daughter is 21 months now and she's still breast-fed and we just have a totally different connection. We don't really need punishments. I just have to give her a look and she knows because we just have this crazy connection...
...bloggers from creating posts the government says incite violence or crime, undermine national security, include inaccurate information that could damage the reputation of individuals and organizations, or disclose state secrets. It also requires global internet companies with blogging platforms operating in Vietnam to report to the Vietnamese government every six months - and to provide information about individual bloggers if requested...