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Colombia and Chile experienced similar, if less dramatic, run-ups in their currencies in 2009, and Latin America remains the region to watch in 2010. Greg Anderson, director of currency strategy at Société Générale Global Markets in New York likes Mexico best, noting its peso could repeat the performance of last year's hottest Latin-American currencies, helped by comparatively high interest rates, currently at 4.5% but expected to trend upwards to 5.75% by year end. Also, Mexico's government is pursuing a hands-off approach to currency markets...
...health experts, psychiatrists, obstetricians and social workers agree that many cases of depression during pregnancy are going undiagnosed or untreated. This is partly because American women tend to prefer a watch-and-wait approach to illness during pregnancy, says Dr. Shari Lusskin, director of reproductive psychiatry at the New York University (NYU) Langone Medical Center. Women's "hands-off method" - which may stem from an unwillingness to undergo treatment that could harm the fetus - combined with a general societal stigma that is still associated with depression, makes for a "'Don't ask, don't tell' sort of environment when...
...supporters of Prop 8 will argue that Loving’s guarantee of a “freedom to marry” is completely irrelevant to the question of gay marriage because, quite simply, gay marriage is not actually marriage. As a New York Appellate Court put it in Hernandez v. Robles (2006), “until a few decades ago, it was an accepted truth for almost everyone who ever lived…that there could be marriages only between participants of different sex,” whereas interracial marriage has always been between a man and a woman...
...were recorded, whipping up near whiteout conditions, with visibility at Dulles International Airport outside Washington about one-tenth of a mile. Thousands of people in the region went without power. The storm, which originated in the Midwest, was barreling up the East Coast on Wednesday, battering Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York City and Boston, forcing preemptive school closings and spurring officials to slash air travel. (See pictures of wacky winter weather...
...away as Florida and Texas to find 30,000 tons of salt for snow removal. Near downtown Washington, trees remained strewn across intersections. The paralysis is "another example of how poorly the federal government responds in times of stress," says Paul Light, a professor of public service at New York University. (See pictures of Asia's record snowfalls...