The Finance Ministers of 187 nations began meeting in Washington, DC on Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010 to discuss the growing concerns that the world is now in the grip of an "international currency war" initiated by China. According to the liberal British newspaper, The Guardian, China's economic policies started the "war" by manipulating its own currency to an unrealistic low.

Organ donation: An opt-out policy? NY lawmaker is pushing for a system in which consent is presumed.  Zach Dunlap died in an ATV accident. When he was taken to the emergency room, he had brain matter leaking from his ears.  Doctors told his parents that their son was clinically dead. The trauma center was keeping his body alive on a ventilator because he carried an organ donor card. As the nurse prepared Zach for the harvest-team two nurses saw something that told them Zach was not dead. On a hunch one nurse ran the blade of his pocket knife up the sole of one of Zach's feet. The foot yanked away. Zach was alive. Within 5 days he opened his eyes and began to talk. In 48 days he walked out of the rehab center. He was less than 48 minutes from having all of the organs in his body harvested.  When you ask the question why more people don't become organ donors, Zach Dunlap's the reason.