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...conference table and decide how to push oil prices up or down by closing or opening the spigots on their vast resources - about two-thirds of the world's total reserves. At this week's meeting, however, OPEC's oil ministers attempted an even trickier acrobatic act: staying in place...
...This week, in Santa Fe, marks the official launch of this tortoise-beats-the-hare economic model. While Slow Money Institutes-forums for building regional stakeholder networks - have taken place in Grafton, Vt, Point Reyes, Calif., Bellingham, Wash., and Madison, Wis., this gathering brought together 300-plus participants representing at least four countries drawn from investment, philanthropic, academic and entrepreneurial circles...
...high-tech boost, thanks to social entrepreneur Daniel Lubetzky. First, print a card at Kinded.com. Then do something nice for a stranger, like sharing an umbrella or helping carry luggage, and hand that person the card. The recipient can go online and note where the act of kindness took place and then pass the card along. It's like Pay It Forward, with mapping features...
...simple." He was responding to the claim by some critics that Obama wanted panels of scientists empowered to deny health care to the ill and infirm, or as the President put it, "to kill off senior citizens." On this point, there is some discussion that could reasonably take place, if people agreed to speak reasonably...
...officially denying that the country was unsafe for Indian students. Students claimed the attacks were racially motivated, but police and government authorities maintained they were mainly opportunistic. Tensions also spread to Sydney, with protests erupting at Harris Park, in the city's west, where many of the assaults took place. Indian students are the second largest group of foreign students in Australian after those from China...