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SLIDE.COM Download the site's photo-indexing software, and you can create a slide show that appears as a small strip on your desktop. Get friends and family to sign up with Slide, and each time you drag and drop in a new pic, they will get an e-mail alert. Caveat: you will need a Windows PC and a broadband connection...
...Fortunately, for most of Asia, there is good reason to believe that currency headwinds might abate. That's because the dollar may be about to resume its multi-year slide. America is suffering from its largest current-account deficit in history?currently running at 6.4% of U.S. GDP and probably headed into the 7.5% range by the end of 2006. History and economic theory point to a resumption of dollar weakening if the U.S. is ever to turn the corner on its current-account problem...
...Lawrence that took a first-period lead when Brock McBride launched a shot to the goalie’s right. Tobe shifted to block the puck, but Mark Wallmann was perfectly planted to the netminder’s left and stuffed home the rebound before Tobe could slide across the crease...
...rarely matched the hype. Within months of Clinton's visit, Rwanda and Uganda had invaded Congo, and Eritrea and Ethiopia had gone to war with each other. While some leaders - notably Museveni and Zenawi - still did enough to remain darlings of Western donors, even they have now begun to slide. In Ethiopia, Zenawi has sent troops onto the streets to stop opposition supporters protesting the results of a general election last May. In Uganda, an increasingly dictatorial Museveni announced two weeks ago that he will run for office again, following Parliament's decision to scrap term limits that would have...
...question: Does it really matter if the Hong Kong talks sputter and the Doha Round fails? The global economy, after all, has been humming along nicely under the old rules, which date back to the Uruguay Round in 1994. Since the U.S. bounced back from its post-9/11 slide, world economic growth has been more buoyant than at any time in the past three decades. Some experts, including those who support further trade liberalization, say that the damage may be limited if Doha fizzles. Joseph Stiglitz, a former World Bank chief economist who won the Nobel Prize for economics...