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...crisis is over, according to one recent study, even with all the infrastructure spending Beijing is throwing at the problem. Wen himself said Thursday that if the economy doesn't grow 8% this year (and only the most optimistic economists believe it will), the country risks politically destabilizing social unrest...
...Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány wants $230 billion in aid for Eastern members hardest hit by the crisis, and fast-track membership to the eurozone, the club of nations that uses Europe's common currency. Without help, Gyurcsány says, there is likely to be social and political unrest and a new economic Iron Curtain across Europe...
...Czech koruna 12%. Latvia has now followed Romania in seeing its government bonds labeled as junk by Standard & Poor's rating agency. (Its government was forced to quit two weeks ago). Once lauded as darlings of global capitalism, these countries now warn of social and political unrest if their economies are allowed to collapse. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...country. [The others are in Yellowstone National Park, Washington State, Hawaii, and Long Valley, California.] We have seismic networks and other geophysical equipment monitoring a number of volcanoes in Alaska, including Redoubt Volcano, 100 miles southwest of Anchorage. The volcano is showing a lot of signs of unrest that probably presage an eruption. So we look at seismic data, webcams, radar data and satellite imagery; we make overflights in airplanes to observe; we take gas measurements. We try to pull all this information together to give the public the best practical information we have about what's likely to happen...
...want to save lives. If there's an evacuation needed, a civil authority will call it, but we want to give them the best information so that people can be moved out of harm's way. The other category is minimizing economic and social disruption during the period of unrest surrounding an eruption. If you've got volcano unrest and you don't know the extent of the eruption, you really tend to overreact when you don't need to. We can also give practical information - telling people about ash flow or when a mudflow is coming down a river...