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• IMF chief warns of global financial meltdown
President Bush huddled with economic chiefs from the G-7 — Japan, Germany, Britain, France, Italy and Canada — and officials from the IMF and World Bank, and said top industrial nations grasped the gravity of the crisis and would work together to ...
• Mexican pot cartels sully U.S. forests, parks
Then, officials say, tighter border controls after Sept. 11, 2001, forced industrial-scale growers to move their operations into the United States. Millions of dollars are spent every year to find and uproot marijuana-growing operations on state and ...
• After scandal, China tightens dairy regulations
Contaminated milk powder, laced with the industrial chemical melamine, has been blamed for causing the deaths of four infants and sickening more than 54,000 others. More than 10,000 children remained hospitalized with eight of them in serious ...
• Bush: ‘We can solve this crisis and we will’
Market turbulence has increased this week with the Dow Jones industrial average suffering a series of huge declines that have wiped out $8.7 trillion in wealth over the past year. The president's working group, which was created after the 1987 stock ...
• Why 'circuit breakers' haven't been triggered
The Dow Jones industrial average would have to fall 1,100 points in a day to trigger the first halt. If that point is reached before 2 p.m., the market would shut down for an hour. If the threshold is breached between 2 p.m. and 2:30 p.m., the halt ...