puzzles of rising China, India vs borderless finance, outsourcing, stock market, banking (cmi valparaso)
explore vast opportunities and challenges of rising giants China, India under a borderless world of finance, entrepreneurship, competition, investment, labor, trade and politics.
Capsule reviews (Chicago Sun-Times)
Nonogram puzzles are about as popular in America as Major League Soccer. For the uninitiated, a nonogram is a grid of boxes; numbers on the top and left margins indicate how many boxes are to be filled in on that row.
A Different World for the UAW (Washington Post)
It was a ritual. As contracts between the United Auto Workers and the Detroit car companies neared expiration, the union would hold meetings to determine how much more it wanted to get from the companies in a new agreement.
2006 Tectonic Plate Motion Reversal Near Acapulco Puzzles Earthquake Scientists (Science Daily)
A reversal of tectonic plate motion between Acapulco and Mexico City in the last half of 2006 probably didn't ease seismic strain in the region or the specter of a major earthquake anticipated there in the coming decades, says a University of Colorado at Boulder professor.
2006 tectonic plate motion reversal near Acapulco puzzles earthquake scientists (EurekAlert!)
A reversal of tectonic plate motion near Acapulco, Mexico, in 2006 (colored arrows) as measured by GPS satellites did little to ease seismic strain in the region and the…
Jonathan Yardley (Washington Post)
FEMME FATALE Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari
Two Nicotine Addiction Puzzles Explained (PhysOrg)
The stranglehold of nicotine addiction leads to more than four million smoking-related deaths each year. Scientists at the California Institute of Technology have now explained two roots of that addiction. The discoveries may offer new hope not just for smokers, but eventually also for sufferers of Parkinson's disease, a debilitating movement disorder that affects some 40 million people worldwide.
More questions to ponder in Cup's formative stages (Stuff)
Will the south rise again? That question along with Ali Williams' future and whether North Harbour's Ranfurly Shield tenure will extend past its first major challenge are among the puzzles posed by round two of rugby's Air NZ Cup.
Murder-suicide puzzles police (The Bryan-College Station Eagle)
FLOWER MOUND - The lengthy suicide note left by a stay-at-home mom who killed her husband and two young children indicated she had been planning to shoot her family but offered no clues about her motive, authorities said Wednesday.
Toy sales spring forward (CNN Money)
Toy sales climbed in the first half of 2007 as new product innovations helped lift overall industry sales, a report released Friday said.