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...Made with Love I loved your article "A Handmade World" [Jan. 25]. People often ask me why I chose to do mechanical engineering and not computers or electronics. And I always have to find words to explain that I like to see things happening. I like to see the pistons being pushed by steam, or objects moving as a result of a force, instead of working with wires where you can't see the resistance or compilers and processors executing algorithms. This article has given a single word to my long explanation - I am a steampunk. Manav Sachdeva Johannesburg, South...
...today. Warning that Greece was in "critical condition," Prime Minister George Papandreou recently said that his country "faces the risk of sinking under its debt." Jitters over a potential Greek default have punished the value of Europe's common currency, the euro, and driven down stock markets around the world. Policymakers worry that Greece's woes will spread to other weaker members of the euro zone, such as Portugal, Ireland, Italy and Spain - a collection of countries traders have nicknamed the PIIGS. Government leaders nowhere near Europe are concerned as well. "Such events far away can hurt Singapore," warned...
...right to be worried. The debacle in Greece could be a harbinger of a new stage of the financial crisis, one in which irresponsible politicians, not bankers, are the main source of economic turmoil. Across the developed world, sovereign states have amassed potentially unsustainable mountains of debt. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) forecasts that by 2011 the ratio of government debt to gross domestic product - the main measure of a state's financial health - will reach 100% in the U.S., up from 62% in 2007. That's almost as large as Greece's burden today. Ireland...
...same realization will have to come to governments across the developed world. But S&P's Beers warns that process has only just begun. "There is hope that somehow the square can be circled," he says. But "it is going to be increasingly hard to say there aren't difficult choices to be made." Hopefully our political leaders won't just skip town...
...quite honest with you," says Ron Tilson, director of conservation at Minnesota Zoo, co-author of a new edition of the encyclopedic Tigers of the World and, with decades of fieldwork in Asia's tiger habitats under his belt, an authority - maybe the authority - on our most endangered big cat. "I've never seen a wild tiger...