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...estimated the fire caused about $10,000 in damage and said that it was unclear when the restaurant would re-open...
...unclear to what extent Tsvangirai will be able to exercise power over economic restrictions and to what extent Zimbabwe will take positive steps toward following the current power-sharing agreement. Tsvangirai standing alongside Mugabe, however, represents in itself a tentative removal of the handcuffs that have checked foreign assistance. In its last several months in office, the Bush administration must seize this opportunity to take a strong, positive stand in foreign policy and finally help Zimbabwe assume its position as an African democracy with a hopeful future...
...reason why the world's financial markets are in such crisis this week. Bear and AIG were bailed out in part because they were big players in the market for credit default swaps, derivatives that are meant to insure against loans gone bad. Regulators have such an unclear picture of who's on the hook to whom in this market that they feared the collapse of either firm would spark a chain reaction of defaults, and investors are so panicked by the unknown that they are selling shares in even seemingly healthy investment banks Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley...
...nearly 1 in 2 African-American girls, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But this is the first year such a study has been completed, and the study doesn't separate 14-to-16-year-olds from 17-to-19-year-olds, so it's still unclear which way that trend is heading...
...unclear what serious alternatives exist to the kind of painful mass evacuations Louisiana officials ordered last week. A politically tricky situation remains: If state and local officials fail to move residents out of flood-prone areas, they risk charges of incompetence, or worse. But their hesitance after Gustav to allow residents to quickly return to areas that lacked basic services like electricity, grocery stores and gas stations brought the same accusations. In addition, their heightened rhetoric as Gustav approached - New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin at one point said it could be "the storm of the century" - only hurts their credibility...