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...strongest economy. For the record, there are more psychoanalysts per capita in Buenos Aires than in any other city in the world.Argentina’s 2001 default on over $140 billion in international loans imploded the economy, precipitating a massive bank run and widespread civil unrest. When the dust settled, the Argentine peso was trading at roughly four to the American dollar, after a decade of parity. Europeans and North Americans began to trickle into Buenos Aires to take advantage of the exchange rate, and lately the media’s been abuzz about South America?...
...without compromising their Luddite principals. Blurb's "slurper" tool uploads the contents of your blog (up to 400 8x10 printed pages worth) and reformats it into book form. You choose the design layout and other particulars; the company ships you the finished product (full color, hardcover, bound, with custom dust jacket for $29.95 to $79.95 depending on number of pages) then makes your book available on the site for others to buy. For now, the site's BookSmart software already can be used to make other types of books (cookbooks, baby books, poetry books) while the blog-to-book program...
...could have been no more than five years old, his limbs flopping lifelessly as the two sweating rescue workers carried him across the rubble to a waiting stretcher. The grey dust and earth that matted his hair and caked his body had dulled his bright orange shorts and T-shirt. He was the eighth victim to be extracted from the horrific tomb of earth, sand and rubble in the past half hour, and the fifth child under...
...rooms. Taking in these elegant surroundings, it's hard to believe that the project was plagued by problems since construction began in 2000 (a long-running feud between city authorities and contractors saw costs double to around $64 million and completion was delayed by three years) - but thankfully, the dust has now settled. Spa prices range from $35 for a two-hour visit to $82 for a full day. An onsite restaurant featuring the cuisine of Michelin-starred chef Martin Blunos beautifully completes the facility. As one peruses its healthy menu in the afterglow of a rejuvenating sauna, it remains...
...motivation they apparently needed. Thick orange flames darted from between cracks in the rubble as rescue workers pulled apart blocks of smashed concrete to look for survivors and recover the dead, choking all the while on the noxious fumes from the explosion and the roiling clouds of dust and smoke...