Mayor says Slope development 'too much, too fast, too soon'

Mayor says Slope development 'too much, too fast, too soon'
Anchorage Daily News - We need evidence that industry and agencies believe in the protection of our culture enough to occasionally reimburse us in the currency of our culture," said North Slope Borough Mayor Edward Itta. "That currency is called subsistence." Federal

Canadian firms offer Cuban healthcare to U.S. Canadian patients
Miami Herald - Jorgenson called Cuba's healthcare system ''almost like Fidel's oil,'' because it attracts so many who have hard currency. The people who run the other Canadian company, HSI, are considerably less known than Jorgenson. Its founder, Lucie Vermette, has

Peso hits new record against dirham on high forex inflows
Khaleej Times - Even the interest rate cut of 25 basis points on Thursday by the central bank, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), had apparently not affected the Philippine currency. Trimming its overnight borrowing rate to 5.75 per cent and overnight lending rate

A queer conspiracy
Chicago Sun-Times - Even now, Sherry notes, the phrase "gay mafia" retains some currency, as evidenced by Hollywood agent Michael Ovitz's use of the term in blaming others for his professional decline in 2002. The difference is that it made Ovitz a laughingstock. Kevin

Greenspan says U.S. dollar not a problem right now
Reuters - In an interview on CNN's "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer," Greenspan said that normally the long-term weakness of a currency is inflationary. "There is no real evidence right now that that is a major problem," Greenspan said. Americans traveling

Brazil's currency up 1 pct as global markets surge
Reuters - SAO PAULO, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Brazil's currency gained about 1 percent on Friday, tracking a surge in global financial markets after strong U.S. jobs data soothed fears about the outlook for economic growth and corporate profits. The real
Rugby: NZRU left counting $50m cost of failure
New Zealand Herald - Extra players had to be brought in and paid for when the constant rotation of the test side provoked a decline in public interest, leaving tickets unsold and TV audiences reduced. Also, by 2006, the union's long-term currency hedging deal expired and

iPod Pricing Around the World
PC World - Purchasing power parity surveys compare the prices of goods in different countries and at their simplest level can help show whether one currency is undervalued against another. James said the results underscored the falling U.S. currency against

Farmers face jail over evictions
MSN UK News - Some 5,000 white-owned farms have been taken over in the often-violent seizures that began in 2000 and disrupted the agriculture-based economy in the former regional breadbasket, which now suffers chronic shortages of food, hard currency and petrol.