Word: worst
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...This was transpacific yin and yang, and it all worked fine - until it stopped working almost entirely, late last year. Now both economies are flailing while leaders try to mitigate the worst effects of a frightening global recession. And the odd thing is, the two countries' salvage efforts are pretty much polar opposites as well. (See pictures of China's electronic-waste village...
...participants were asked to answer a standard questionnaire that measured optimistic tendencies based on responses to statements like "In uncertain times, I expect the worst." Those scoring highest in optimism on this scale were more likely to be alive eight years later, while those with the lowest, most pessimistic scores were more likely to have died from any cause, including heart disease and cancer...
...legal challenge of all time. The International Criminal Court (ICC) has global authority, but its executive power is limited to a few buildings in the Hague and its budget to $125 million, 30 times smaller than the NYPD's. And its mandate to prosecute the world's worst offences is rejected by the governments of more than half the world's people...
...danger is that the victims of the world's worst crimes are lost in all this noise. In Sudan's case, that would be the 300,000 dead and 2.7 million who have been forced to flee their homes in Darfur. Global justice might be tough to implement. Those figures are why it's worth trying...
...usually the nation in need of the largest life preserver. If it wasn't drowning under fiscal recklessness, it was being held under by draconian austerity plans. Brazil, the old joke goes, is the country of the future - and always will be. Now, in the middle of the worst global downturn for decades, Brazil could finally be the country of the moment. According to a recent study by the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD), Brazil may be the only one of 34 major economies that avoids recession in 2009. While the U.S. debates whether to nationalize...