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...Ten years ago, much of Asia suffered an economic wipeout that makes today's crisis seem like a rounding error. In Indonesia, the currency lost over 80% of its value, long-serving dictator Suharto was driven from office and hundreds of ethnic Chinese were killed in a racist pogrom. Prices in Hong Kong slumped through five years of grinding deflation. The city's stock market dropped more than 50% while property prices fell out the window - down a staggering 70%. South Korea and Thailand suffered similar fates, with plunging currencies, collapsing companies and rising unemployment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meltdown 101 | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...Feeding animals for meat production requires growing ten times as many crops as producing directly for a plant-based diet. The land needed for these crops contributes to deforestation—a major cause of global warming. In 2006, Greenpeace unveiled a “KFC: Amazon Criminal” banner across the Brazilian rainforest to highlight the effect KFC’s huge demand for chicken feed has in deforesting the Amazon Basin...

Author: By Lewis E. Bollard | Title: Al Gore’s Inconvenient Diet | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...courts is appropriate for a secular legal system. Though the case was summarily dismissed, the very fact that the complaint was heard at all involved an implicit state acknowledgement of the existence of God. Given cases like the 2005 Supreme Court decision banning a public display of the Ten Commandments in Kentucky (although a similar decision allowed a monument in Texas on historical grounds), we may call the introduction of the (specifically Christian) divine into American jurisprudence a clear and recognized threat to the integrity of that process...

Author: By Bilal A. Siddiqui | Title: Supreme Impiety | 10/22/2008 | See Source »

...know the park sucks, I know the team sucked, I know the Bucs are so much better, but that’s still no excuse. Rays games had like ten people attend them over the course of several years...

Author: By Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: WALLY'S WORLD: A Case of No Pain, No Fun | 10/22/2008 | See Source »

...Chile is no more dangerous now than it was five or ten years ago, why are Chileans more afraid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Chile Imagining a Crime Wave? | 10/22/2008 | See Source »

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