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...Those declines followed a trickle of new data suggesting a slowing of U.S. economic activity, and follow-through damage inflicted by the global financial crisis. Statistics released Wednesday showed American retail sales were off 1.2% in September - almost double the expected decline. That added weight to other indicators suggesting U.S. consumer spending - which represents nearly 70% of American economic activity - is declining due to fears over economic turmoil and job security...
...Indonesia’s ability to weather such conflicts, Totok Soefijanto, a deputy rector at Paramadina University, wrote in an e-mail that he thinks the country serves as a model for other nations to follow. Bruderlein said the country’s Islamic makeup gives it added weight as a case study in conflict resolution. “Although Islam is traditionally seen as an obstacle to peace, in Indonesia, Islam is one of the factors of the peace process,” Bruderlein said. Indonesia’s experience with Islam and conflict resolution efforts should be applied...
...says. There have been about 600 such cases in more than 30 years, most of those small companies that were overwhelmed by natural disasters. Last year was a record low year for solvency problems in the industry and those all involved small companies that were still staggering under the weight of claims from Hurricane Katrina...
...best-selling book called Morning Banana Diet and celebrity testimonials. Leading banana importer Dole Japan reported that sales of the fruit are up 25% since the same period last year. Yet despite the empty shelves and rising prices, nutrition experts have been skeptical, saying bananas do not directly trigger weight loss...
Pope Benedict XVI's mostly warm but sometimes chilly relationship with the worldwide Jewish community may have just hit a major ice patch. On Thursday, Benedict put his moral weight (though not yet his signature) behind the cause for sainthood for Pope Pius XII, the wartime Pontiff who many Jewish leaders criticize for not having done enough to oppose the Holocaust...