Showing posts with label Foreign aid. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Foreign aid. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

US Stocks: Dow Drops 250 After Earnings, DuPont Skids 9%.....

Stocks traded near session lows Tuesday, with the Dow down nearly 250 points, following a batch of disappointing quarterly results and amid worries over Spain's economy.

Thursday, October 18, 2012

U.S. Spent $27 Million on ‘Ineffective’ Pottery Classes--in Morocco.....

I swear....you can't write this stuff...........

“A key part of the project involved training Moroccans to create and design pottery to sell in domestic and international markets,” the 2012 “Waste Book” explains. “To accomplish this, an American pottery instructor was contracted to provide several weeks of training classes to local artists to improve their methods and teach them how to successfully make pottery that could be brought to market.

“Unfortunately, the translator hired for the sessions was not fluent in English and was unable to transmit large portions of the lectures to the participants,” it said.