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...Despite the public's justifiably poor opinion of many of the actors that inhabit the financial sector, spreading the blame will only hasten the economy's decline. In order for the economy to recover, the market must recover. And in order for the market to recover, America's antipathy toward the financial system must pass. (See pictures of the Top 10 scared traders...
...Tuesday, Apple unveiled a number of improvements to its mobile operating system, which will only hasten old media's move to the post-Web world. The biggest change: Apple's app store will let us charge subscriptions for our content. (Of course, we always could charge for subscriptions on the Web, but who'd pay for that experience?) And now, with a rumored 9-inch iPod Touch heading to consumers - an Apple iReader! Linked to Apple's one-click-to-pay App store! - I bet great magazines and newspapers will come up with iterations that you actually will...
...should come as no surprise that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has been quick to endorse emerging plans to hasten the departure of U.S. forces from his country. Maliki, after all, had opposed the Bush Administration's decision to increase U.S. troop levels in the surge of 2007, and he had forced a reluctant Washington to accept a hard deadline for withdrawal in the Status of Forces Agreement adopted late last year. The growing abilities of the Iraqi security forces and the strengthening of his political position after last month's provincial elections have added to Maliki's confidence...
...actually born on Tuesday Bangkok time, which could mean he should be honored by pink. In late 2007, when the King left the hospital after a three-week stay, he was pictured wearing a carnation-pink blazer and shirt, apparently because astrologers predicted that the tint would hasten his good health. The monarch's fashion statement provoked a run on all things rose-colored, with tens of thousands of pink shirts selling in a matter of weeks. Now that red and yellow are out, Thailand may again be turning pink...
...takes place outside any single nation's territory, makes it a classic tragedy of the commons. It's to the individual profit of any one fisherman, or any one nation, to keep fishing as long as possible - but if everyone abandons the code and fishes unsustainably, it will only hasten global fishery collapse...