The rest of the world is looking on in horror as a slow motion economic train wreck unfurls.
Is the internet entering the era of personalisation, where web firms know so much about us that they are able to serve us up a view of the world which is like looking in the mirror?
It comes as no surprise that commodity prices are highly volatile, but researchers at FuelQuest have shown the exponential increase in wild price swings started in 2004, when electronic trading proliferated and hedge funds and other market players jumped in the market looking for bigger returns in a world of low interest rates.
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You have people at your club you can go to for advice, but in the real world when you're in the chemist looking for something for a bit of flu, you need to check every ingredient on a website.
Many researchers around the world are looking at smart fabrics in various shapes and forms.
Looking ahead, Google executives depict a world in which the firm not only helps people to find information they are looking for, but delivers it to them before they know they need it.
Combining high image performance, creative functionality and style, the WB100 is the ideal camera for those looking to capture their world in perfect detail.
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Venture capitalists and others from the financial world will be looking for possible deals in an industry that has never been a dependable profit maker.
Nobody with a fine mind and a lot of experience and looking at the world we live in would agree with anyone else with the same qualities on every issue.
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Since these are for the most part produced in Rio de Janeiro and feature characters drawn from the upper-middle class, they tend to reflect a world where good-looking white people in expensively casual clothes flit around in a perpetual summer, attended by maids.
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This odd way of looking at the world appears commonplace in both parties: Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney killed a hundred weapons programs in the midst of a recession, and the Obama Administration did much the same thing at the height of the more recent downturn.
Results for West Indies under Hooper were no better than those in Lara's time, but improved performances in India late last year and an unlucky World Cup campaign led many to believe things were looking up in the Caribbean.
Ministers say they are also looking at ways that GCHQ's "world class expertise" in the area might be used to help businesses - for example looking at whether encryption techniques and other expertise that is not considered top secret might have commercial applications.
What we are keen to do is have a very clear structure looking forward to the next World Cup in 2011.
So, say you're looking for rides in Disney World, a thumbnail of every attraction will appear at the top in a horizontally scrollable list.
Investors looking for profit in the world of exchange-traded funds will find that their money is better made in the products than in the companies offering them up.
"People around the world are looking for some kind of consistency in our foreign policy, and we've been criticized for not having that, not having anything close to consistency during the Arab Spring, " Zarate said.
In the looking glass world of current U.S. foreign policy, the received wisdom is that Iran might have bombs tomorrow, and was working toward them yesterday--but in the eternal sunshine of the present moment, it is never quite clear to the White House that Iran is actually building the bomb.
In a world of overwhelming choice, consumers today are looking for brands that are not only the best and the brightest in terms of basic value, but which are true and authentic, and whose employees are passionate about the brand and its purpose.
Davies lies in fourth place in the World Supersport Championship riders' table and will be looking to close the gap on those above him in the next race at Silverstone on Sunday, 1 August.
Federer, world No. 2, defeated Tomas Berdych in the 2012 Madrid final and is looking for a 22nd ATP World Tour Masters 1000 title, which would see him draw level with Nadal's tally.
The aluminum badly pushed in, looking all the world like something had been shot clean through.
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The odd sensation today is that the United States is looking the healthiest economy in the world.
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The Lancet paper is one of a series of three looking at underachievement in the developing world.
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Everyone in the investment world will be looking to latch onto growth stocks, any kind of stocks.
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The thing that remains the same is that every young person is looking for a place in the world.
Later, when I started looking for mentors in the business world, I marveled at modern day rock star businessmen.
Police investigating the murder of a 90-year-old World War II veteran in south London are looking for a homeless man as a potential witness.
Absent of a particularly sparkling track record, British football fans are looking to this summer's World Cup in Munich with feelings of both excitement and trepidation.
In the looking-glass world of Northern Ireland, some took Mr Adams's statement as helpful to Mr Trimble, because it showed the Ulster Unionists what little room their leader had for manoeuvre.
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