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...wish to change the world." That wish was to create a global-awareness movement around XDR-TB. Beginning Oct. 3, TED will unveil multimedia projects in major cities around the world, including London, Los Angeles and New York (at the Time Warner Center). There will be slide shows in public spaces on all seven continents (including Antarctica) and viral videos using Jim's images that will spread across the Internet. Thanks to Jim and ted, this hidden killer will be hidden no longer...
...Hang Seng indexes fell by 5% or more in overnight trading before ending Tuesday down 4.1% and .85 respectively; exchanges in London, Paris and Frankfurt all opened slumping before winding up 1.7%, .4%, and 2% ahead. Compare that with Monday's 7% drop the Dow Jones and 9.1% slide on the Nasdaq...
...closer and the cracks begin to emerge. Dancing by helicopter above the mouth of the Jakobshavn Glacier, near the western coast of Greenland, you can make out veins of the purest blue meltwater running between folds of ice. What you can't see is Jakobshavn's inexorable slide toward the sea at 65 ft. to 115 ft. a day--an alarming rate that has accelerated in recent years. As the glacier nears the coast, it breaks off into the Ilulissat fjord, a stream of churning ice that might have birthed the monster that sunk the Titanic. Those icebergs are spat...
...dreaded: the futures market in free fall. Bernanke, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and New York Fed president Timothy Geithner had spent the past year staving off one disaster after another, for the most part working behind the scenes. Earlier in the month, they had let investment bank Lehman Brothers slide into oblivion and then ushered another, Merrill Lynch, into the arms of Bank of America. Just the night before, the trio had wrapped up a deal to rescue insurance giant American International Group and gone to bed praying it would halt the panic and worrying it wouldn...
...Shanghai's Communist Party boss and a chunk of the city's ruling élite. Shanghai's benchmark stock index has lost roughly two-thirds of its value since hitting its peak last October. Even the Japanese developer of the Shanghai World Financial Center admits that a real estate slide has affected tenancy, with just 45% of the tower currently occupied. The hosting of the Olympics by Shanghai's northern rival added insult to injury, even if local papers hastened to note that Shanghai's athletes broke more world records than those from any other Chinese city...