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European Stocks Rise Slightly; Asian Shares Mixed NYT > Business Tue, 10/07/2008 - 06:08 Stocks wavered in Europe, a day after their worst decline in 21 years, amid expectations that central banks were poised to implement coordinated interest rate cuts.

Baroness Warnock: Dementia sufferers may have a 'duty to die': Elderly people suffering from dementia should consider ending their lives because they are a burden on the NHS and their families, according to the influential medical ethics expert Baroness Warnock.

Who cares about Europe?: Voters don’t know much about the European Union. What’s more, they don’t want to learn (Charlemagne, Sep 18th 2008, The Economist) As Ireland is pressed to hold a new referendum on Lisbon (and to get the answer right this time), the government there has talked about the need to explain the treaty and the EU better.

Aging Population Spooks EU (Der Spiegel, 8/27/08) It is clear who will be paying the pensions off British retirees in the not-too-distant future: the children of the country's immigrant population. The rest of Europe may not be so lucky.

Investor Confidence Index Declines from 84.0 to 77.2 in August 0 Investor Confidence Index Declines from 84.0 to 77.2 in August BOSTON, Aug 19, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — State Street Global Markets, the investment research and trading arm of State Street Corporation (STT), today released the results of the State Street Investor Confidence Index(R) for August 2008.

So I'm reading Helene Tursten's police procedural, The Torso, and, to my surprise it has footnotes, not something you come across often in mystery novels. Not to worry though, Soho Press only put them there to explain the metric measurements used in this Swedish book to the American audience. Sublime.

The death of a nation: The fate of Belgium should interest all Europeans, since what is happening there now could be repeated on a continental scale (Ian Buruma, 8/08/08, Guardian) [P]erhaps we should all care at least a little, for what is happening in Belgium is unusual, but not at all unique.

The Christian Roots of the West (Dinesh D'Souza, Aug 7th 2008, AOL News) [J]urgen Habermas is now regarded as perhaps our leading living philosopher. Habermas is also an atheist. Yet when Habermas found out that the European Union in its charter gave full acknowledgement to ancient Greece and Rome, but none to Christianity, he erupted in learned outrage.

The specter of stagflation will likely keep the U.S. Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, and the Bank of England from changing short term interest rates this week, and their hands may be tied for some time as economic growth slows but inflation remains high.

Nurse gave wrong woman abortion (BBC, 7/18/08) A nurse who gave a chemical abortion to a patient who had only come for a consultation has been cautioned. Ann Downer, based at the Calthorpe Clinic in Edgbaston, Birmingham, failed to check the woman's personal details before giving her the drug.