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May 22 2009
China and Brazil’s proposal to abandon the dollar for bilateral trade and use yuan and reais instead is “pure idle talk,” former Brazilian central bank President Gustavo Franco said. “Replacing the dollar as an invoicing currency for...
Dec 19 2008
“I screamed at him, ‘You’re an animal!’ ” said Shaimaa Abdel Rahman Aref, 28, a graduate business student. “I felt as if he was striking at my pride. I wish he had beaten me instead. It would have been much less...
Oct 22 2008
When the dot-com and housing bubbles burst, it was easy to see what types of jobs would disappear. But these days as nervous lenders cower and credit contracts, virtually every industry is likely to be scathed in the widely predicted downturn starting...
Oct 17 2008
A team of researchers from Penn State and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center has discovered a way to use light to control certain proteins that catalyze biochemical reactions.
Oct 11 2008
All pupils at a primary school face being served halal meat at lunchtime whether they are Muslim or not, it emerged today.Dale Primary, which has a large proportion of Asians among its 550 pupils, is consulting parents about the controversial move.
Oct 10 2008
“These are scary times for sex writers,” said Tracy Clark-Flory in Salon. One publication after another has fired star columnists, including The Village Voice’s Tristan Taormino and Valleywag’s Melissa Gira Grant. Blame the...
Oct 6 2008
Katya’s entire adult life has been characterised by driving ambition, which has seen her achieve a first-class degree in classics from Cambridge and a six-figure salary as a barrister. Now approaching 37, she hasn’t let singledom get in the way of...