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U.N. Task Force To Address Rising World Food Crisis

BERN, Switzerland, April 29 -- The United Nations will establish a top-level task force to address food shortages and escalating prices that threaten to touch off a "cascade of related crises" around the world, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday.

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Investors still need to be very careful with most financial stocks. While the big subprime mortgage-related charges are likely behind us, problems with corporate lending and other consumer loan areas such as auto finance are starting to get worse, and there is a growing risk that dividends, long a.....

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Investors still need to be very careful with most financial stocks. While the big subprime mortgage-related charges are likely behind us, problems with corporate lending and other consumer loan areas such as auto finance are starting to get worse, and there is a growing risk that dividends, long a.....

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U.S. Scrambles to Address International Food Crisis

The Bush administration and Congress have been caught flat-footed by rapidly escalating global food prices and are scrambling to respond to a crisis that they increasingly view as a threat to U.S. national security, according to government officials, congressional staffers and human rights experts.

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