Silver kills bacteria, viruses, and werewolves on contact. So while supply is low and demand is high, companies like Silver Wheaton and Pan American Silver are strengthening their mettle and might even outperform gold. Blasphemy.
iiBIG presents the 2nd Annual Distressed &Turnaround Investment Forum, scheduled for September 22-23, 2008, at thePalazzo/Venetian Congress Center in Las Vegas. Along with the usualsuspects -- hedge funds, asset-based lenders, private equity firms, andother investment banks -- eyeing the distressed markets, institutionalinvestors are keen in this area as well. Ed...
KIGALI AFP — A woman who lost nearly all her family in the Rwandan genocide has herself been murdered, a local villager told AFP Monday, in what is the latest of several killings of survivors of the 1994 slaughter. Jozefina Zaninka, 75, was beaten to death overnight Friday...
IT'S one of our current society's favourite panic stories. There has been a breakdown in the relationship between parents and their children; the gulf between the two worlds is widening until soon there will be no stretching across the chasm. This week's version revolves around a Prince's...
RYE, N.Y. -- Actor Stephen Baldwin recently approached his childhood friend, John Clancy, along with Mr. Clancy's business partner Steven Anello to assist him with his plan of sharing Godly principles with kids. Recognizing the value in a program like this for society and youth in general, Clancy and Anello...
ON ADS You have to admit it's been nice. The past 10 years have been nice as anything. You might say it's been a bit bland, with people urging us to be Corporately Socially Responsible, Politically Correct, to think about the environment (I've really tried). The...
Oregon's greatest natural disasters. Sullivan, William L. Navillus Press 2008 263 pages $18.95 Paperback GB5014 With lively, popular text informed by solid research, Sullivan examines all the usual suspects: tsunamis, quakes, volcanoes, flash floods,...
PARIS AFP — Three studies published on Wednesday unveil flaws in several chromosomes that highlight an inherited vulnerability to schizophrenia. Among people with schizophrenia, deletions and duplications are more common in key locations of the genetic code compared to otherwise healthy counterparts, according to the papers, released by...
So-called Bizspeak has been in the news recently with a survey of the 50 phrases that annoy workers the most. The usual suspects - touching base, actioning and pre-prepare - were included. But HT has noticed there is something particularly dispiriting about non-native English speakers getting in on the...
There is an art to politics. The vocation requires distinctive skills and experience. Throwing a non-politician on to the political stage is the equivalent of asking a person without musical skills to play in an orchestra. It never works. There was an illuminating...
Despite chronic storm threats and occasional drops of actual rain, a brown tide has crept across the region's landscape. While that may signal the onset of a drought, the fact that the dryness has been so noticeable underscores a remarkable period in Philadelphia's weather history. Very simply, we're not...
Various artists Sound of the World Presents: Beyond the Horizon WCJ Never mind Womad or the Radio 3 awards, the highlight of any self- respecting world music enthusiast's year should be Charlie Gillett's annual compilation. As ever the 34 tracks from 28 different...
Utah's county clerks are looking for a few good people to serve as poll workers on Election Day in November. What good timing, then, that professors at Kent State and Brigham Young universities just released a study that emphasizes how important those workers are to the...
THE WELSH ACADEMY ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WALES ENGLISH VERSION edited by John Davies, Nigel Jenkins, Menna Baines and Peredur Lynch University of Wales Press, 10 Columbus Walk, Brigantine Place, Cardiff CF 10 4UP, Tel: 029 2049 6899, £65, pp. 1060, ISBN 9780708319536 There is a moment in...
Oh, dear, what a setback. The usual suspects have slipped through the net. They will have to be locked up in the Financial Services Authority's waterside fortress for 42 days, while the investigators try again to find some evidence. These suspects are the short sellers: everyone's...
Years ago I was 'political consultant' on State of Play, the successful BBC drama serial that got very substantial ratings. It launched several acting careers, being one of the few TV series that was also watched by the people who make films. About half my advice was ignored,...
An extraordinary email from theatre critic Mr Lloyd Evans arrived in my inbox last week. He'd written a play, it said, a two-hander, and one of the characters was based on me. He'd based the character on me after we'd met at a Spectator Christmas lunch five years...
EUGENE, Ore. -- Allyson Felix still has work to do to earn her trip to Beijing. If things keep going the way they did Friday, it won't be hard work. Felix coasted to a victory in her 200-meter preliminary heat,...
The world's largest annual sporting event begins today aiming to regain credibility after years of damaging doping scandals. Alasdair Fotheringham reports from Brest Tour de France reaches the crossroads After the Tour de France rolls out of Brest at...
EQUESTRIANISM Christina Liebherr, who held the lead for Switzerland after last year's opening speed leg of the European Championships, proved that LB No Mercy still has a smart turn of foot when winning yesterday's Preis von Nordrhein-Westfalen at the Aachen Super League Show...
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