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• Bush critic Krugman wins economics Nobel
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Paul Krugman, whose relentless criticism of the Bush administration includes opposition to the $700 billion financial bailout, won the Nobel prize in economics Monday for his work on international trade patterns. The Princeton ...
• Europe puts $2.3 trillion on line for banks
In Sweden, Finance Minister Anders Borg said the government plans to put forward a draft law Wednesday to guarantee new bank debt until the end of 2009 and support banks with added share capital. BusinessEurope — a group representing most European ...
• Ithaca, NY, wants to be America's 1st podcar city
Companies in Sweden, Poland and Korea are already operating full-scale test tracks to demonstrate the feasibility. Designers are planning a podcar network for Masdar City, outside Abu Dhabi, which is being built as the world's first zero-carbon, zero ...
• U.K. threatens to sue Iceland to protect savers
The news from London even overshadowed an emergency loan Wednesday from Sweden to Iceland’s biggest bank. The promise of legal action by the British government to recover deposits belonging to 300,000 British account holders with the Icesave ...
• 1 Japanese, 2 Americans win Nobel in chemistry
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Japan's Osamu Shimomura and Americans Martin Chalfie and Roger Tsien won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for their discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences ...