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jessica. on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Rated Sep 26 2008 • 0 reviews • photography • flickr.com
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Pictures of the Day, September 25 - The New York Times...

Rated Sep 26 2008 • 1 review • japan • nytimes.com

"The latest styles of adult diapers were modeled during a show in Tokyo. The show was organized to raise awareness of some of the issues facing the county's rapidly aging population."
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Simone Decker / Works / Recently in Arnhem

Rated Sep 25 2008 • 0 reviews • arts • simonedecker.com
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Los Angeles - Catch of the Day - The American Ream

Rated Sep 25 2008 • 0 reviews • politics, credit crisis, mr fish • laweekly.com
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FT.com / Comment - Global authority can fill financial...

Rated Sep 25 2008 • 1 review • economics, credit crisis • ft.com

From the page: "Even if the US�s massive financial rescue operation succeeds, it should be followed by something even more far-reaching �" the establishment of a Global Monetary Authority to oversee markets that have become borderless.

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The current global institutional apparatus is woefully incapable of overseeing the financial system that is evolving. The International Monetary Fund is irrelevant to this crisis, the Group of Seven leading industrial countries lacks legitimacy in a world where China, Brazil and others are big players, and the Bank for International Settlement has no operational role. The US Federal Reserve is too besieged to act as a global central bank."
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Rated Sep 25 2008 • 0 reviews • bizarre • flickr.com
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Instant auctions could replace cellphone contracts - tech...

Rated Sep 25 2008 • 1 review • computers, science, google, cellphones • newscientist.com

Google filed a patent that might eliminate the need for mobile phone and WiFi users to choose a single network.

"The patent describes a system where instead of always connecting to one network, a phone, laptop or other wireless device invites all available networks to bid for your business. The US patent application was filed in March 2007 and published today.

Devices using the system would send networks a description of their requirements �" for example, a phone call or access to the internet �" and receive back bids with a per-minute cost, or flat rate, at which those needs could be met.

Users can either manually accept the bid that looks best to them, or have the phone choose one automatically, based on pre-programmed criteria."
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まいちゃん　　ｍａｉ-chan on Flickr - Photo...

Rated Sep 24 2008 • 0 reviews • dogs • flickr.com
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まいちゃん　　mai-chan on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Rated Sep 24 2008 • 0 reviews • dogs • flickr.com
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In fact & Prospect Magazine

Rated Sep 24 2008 • 1 review • news, trivia • prospect-magazine.co.uk

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* Over the next two decades, China is likely to construct as many new buildings as Europe's total current stock. (Speech by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General, 16th September 2008; sent in by Toby Procter)

* In 2005, Baltimore averaged a higher per capita homicide rate than Darfur. (UN field reports and infoplease.com; sent in by Alex de Waal)

* 35,000 people die of rabies in India every year. (The Times, 26th August 2008)

* In the US, a poll of 10,000 married couples in 2006-07 found that 19 per cent met online, compared with 17 per cent who got together at work and 17 per cent who met through friends. (Daily Mirror, 14th August 2008)

* China's biggest single oil supplier is Angola. (The Economist, 30th August 2008)

* 23 per cent of Germans believe the US government was behind 9/11. The figures in Britain, France and Italy are 5, 8 and 15 per cent respectively. In Egypt, just 12 per cent blame the US, although 43 per cent point the finger at Israel. (worldpublicopinion.org)

* A pound of gold is worth $12,000. The following are all worth more than their weight in gold, in terms of price per pound: platinum ($20,679), $50 notes ($22,680), cocaine ($22,680), rhodium ($77,292), good-quality 1-carat diamonds ($11.4m), LSD ($55m) and antimatter ($26 quadrillion). (Marginal revolution, 28th August 2008)

* One in four adults in New York City have herpes. (USA Today, 9th June 2008)

* This year, over 5 per cent of the Egyptian government budget will go on bread subsidies. Subsidies as a whole cost more than the health and education budgets combined. (Prospect, October 2008)"
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