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The Fed, confronted with recession fears, cut a key interest rate by three–quarters of a percentage point today

PESSIMISM OVER U.S. SWEEPS WORLD MARKETS

Asian Markets Tumble, Doubt "Stimulus"
Asian Markets Tumble
Stock markets across most of Asia fell Monday following declines on Wall Street last week amid investor pessimism over the U.S. government’s stimulus plan to prevent a recession. More…
 
 
Many of the world’s main stock indexes, including the UK FTSE 100, have posted their biggest falls since the terrorist attacks of 11 September, 2001
 
The US diplomat at the heart of the Bush administration's Iran policy is to leave his post, in a move that represents a setback for Condoleezza Rice, US secretary of state
 
 
 
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Analysts with Shenyin & Wanguo Securities warned that investors should take every caution against the latest correction, which had just begun, and that risks would overweigh opportunities in the near future
 
Day of reckoning in the US glasshouse:
There is a growing consensus: America is going into a marked slowdown, if not a downright recession. There will be a large gap between potential growth – usually estimated at 3 per cent to 4 per cent – and actual growth, meaning lost output of hundreds of billions of dollars. America actually faces three separate but related problems; a credit crunch, a debt crisis and a macro–economic problem
 
 
 
by Bruce Porteous
 
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SSDs, The Death Knell Of Hard Drives?
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It’s too early to declare the computer hard drive obsolete. But thanks to the shrinking size of flash memory chips, it is now possible to make full–feature laptops that store their data and programs on "solid–state drives," or SSD &snbsp;More…
 
 
 
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HEALTH
 
Overweight people have a higher risk of heart attacks, strokes and other problems that arise from clogged, hardened arteries. Now, a new study in mice gives the first direct evidence of why this link might exist – and a tantalizing look at how it might be broken.
 
Puberty is arriving ever younger in American females -- 8 is no longer considered abnormal
 
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from Luc Majno
Melting Arctic ice cap top Canadian weather story of ’07
 
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submitted by Luc Majno
This is Canada, the North strong and free and the rest of the bogus stuff
 
 
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from Luc Majno
 
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By Mustapha B Marrouchi
Why do the horror, bleakness, and backward–looking despair seem to appeal to a Western audience pleased with itself, comforted by the feeling that the future is safe, that it has nothing to learn from Africa except the price it charges for toys and luxuries that it no longer chooses or knows how to make?
 
 
By Larry Beinhart
 
By Albert Einstein
 
 
 
 
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