That's a 4% "spread" over the less-risky 10-year U.S. Treasury bond, which is as wide a spread as has existed in years, says Orest Mandzy of Newtown, Pa.

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According to a company consultant, Mr Orest Nowakisky, Mr Matvienko will travel to Ottawa next week to negotiate a deal to print 1.5bn banknotes in Canada and construct a turnkey mint in Ukraine.

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Looks like all that heat generated by your laptop may finally be useful for something other than frying eggs -- a group of grad students led by professor Orest Symko at the University of Utah has unveiled an array of "thermoacoustic" engines that turn heat into sound, which can be directed at a piezoelectric mechanism to produce electricity.

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