Before the Phones Go Down American Spectator | By Roger Kaplan on 6.23.08 @ 12:08AM | In October 1960, in the heat of the closest presidential race in memory, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was arrested during a de-segregation demonstration in Georgia and transferred to Reidsville State Prison. T...
GLOBAL: Prepare for "climaggedon" IRINnews web | JOHANNESBURG, 9 March 2010 (IRIN) - Rice producing Asian countries had to contend with poor rains in 2009, and now another season of low rainfall has been forecast for some of them, which has prompted concern whether the price of the grain could go up later in 2010. | This is the second of a four-part series on food security where IRIN asks, ...
IMF head says may be yuan changes in coming months The Guardian * IMF head says China moved to more traditional growth model * Sees world economy in uncharted territory (Adds quotes, background) JOHANNESBURG, March 9 (Reuters) - China's yuan is still "very much undervalued", the head of the International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday, although he added that a focus on domestic growth could lead to changes "in t...
