"Unprincipled speculators are making billions everyday by betting on a Greek default, " Papandreou said on Monday after meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Washington.
There is a lot of discussion these days about food waste. 30 to 40 percent of all food produced in the world is wasted, we hear, and the food thrown away in the U.S. is enough to fill the Rose Bowl with food everyday.
As I visit schools across the country and talk with teachers at the U.S. Department of Education, they astound me continually with what they accomplish everyday.
South Africa is one of the world's most violent nations, with eight times the proportionate murder rate per day of the U.S., a rape every ten minutes and 2, 642 carjackings a year in Johannesburg alone.