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...Instead, worries are growing that a severe economic downturn in the U.S. and Europe could hurt export-driven Asian economies more than originally thought. Turmoil in Europe as governments scramble to cobble together their own bailout packages has convinced Asia that the contagion will spread far from Wall Street. "We felt pretty good that our economies are stronger," says Song Seng Wun, an economist at CIMB-GK Research in Singapore. "Problems seemed to be other people's problems." But recent events "have made us realize that we aren't entirely safe. It looks like the problem might be closer...
Like Katrina, the tragedy is found in the particular and often reflected in the horrors facing the most vulnerable. In November 2005, three months after Katrina blew though New Orleans, 82-year-old Marguerite Simon sat on her front porch on Egania Street in the Ninth Ward. Spread out on the bushes along the path to the front door of her small home was an American flag, drying in the sun. The tiny, small-boned woman wearing rubber boots and a paper mask, had smoothed out the crumpled, wet flag that had draped her late husband's coffin...
Voter registration deadlines start Oct. 4, and who better to spread the word than Google and Leonardo DiCaprio and Dustin Hoffman and Ellen DeGeneres and Forest Whitaker and Jonah Hill and Benicio Del Toro... The list goes on for a whopping total of 30 celebrities in this viral video telling you NOT to vote, you misinformed, ignoramus of a so-called American citizen! And if a gaggle of openly condescending A- and B-list celebrities throwing out insults doesn't stir your patriotic loins, well, as Leo says, "I don't even know what...
...abandoned the blind, a group of the infected sit listening to the news around a shabby radio that belongs to a mysterious man with an eye patch, played by Danny Glover. After they receive the depressing news that the city around them is crumbling as the plague continues to spread, bongos and flutes from a lighthearted Caribbean tune invade the decrepit room. At this point, the last (or maybe first) thing you’d expect is the blind to break out singing as if in a seeing-impaired musical. But something similar, and potentially worse, happens: they all begin...
...together with allies such as France - has taken the lead in providing security in a vital shipping lane leading to and from the Suez Canal. Somalia has been convulsed by civil war since 1991, and as an attendant humanitarian disaster involving millions of refugees has spread chaos and lawlessness across the land, piracy at sea has rocketed. The primary strategic concern of the U.S. in the region appears to be rooting out al-Qaeda, which is why the U.S. military backed an Ethiopian invasion of Somalia to prevent a popular Islamist movement from taking power. But the Islamists remain powerful...