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...parchment, at $4.50 each; they've sold nearly 2,000 in just three weeks. "Every time the Pope says something outrageous we get another rush on the certificate," Sanderson says, noting that traffic to the site skyrocketed last month following Pope Benedict XVI's comment that condoms could worsen the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa...
...Washington Every Country for Itself Despite a pledge not to enact new protectionist policies--which economists say could worsen the global recession--17 of the G-20 countries have implemented such measures in recent months, according to the World Bank. Individual nations' attempts to preserve jobs and industries through tariffs or subsidies "can lead to a negative spiral of events," according to the bank's president. In its report, the bank says 47 separate isolationist measures have been put in place since November...
...Motors doesn't appear to be on the brink of bankruptcy. According to industry analysts, the company has strong management and the backing of the Tata Group, a venerable Indian conglomerate with $63 billion in annual revenues. "For Tata Motors to be in dire straits, things will have to worsen much more," says a Mumbai-based analyst with Credit Suisse who asked not to be named...
...beginning of a serious downward spiral in diplomatic relations between Israel and the rest of the Middle East. After years of gradually easing tensions following the Camp David accords, Israel's relations with even moderate Arab countries have become increasingly brittle since the Gaza conflict and could easily worsen. (See pictures of Gaza border tension...
This kind of behavior, contends McCulley, is what the paradox of thrift demands. "Uncle Sam has got to go the other direction and lever up his balance sheet and actually spend money," he says. Simply standing by and letting the downward economic spiral worsen strikes him as "inconsistent with a civilized society...