World Bank audit to check graft
The World Bank is expected to publish new guidelines next week to fight corruption and promote "good governance" which is honest, better and a more focused government, as a condition for its loans.The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has already done so.
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America is not the safest bet on earth
Mark Monmonier says America is full of danger, and some of its riskiest areas are favorite vacation spots and one scores high on surveys of best places to live. Monmonier is a map expert who dwells on dangers ranging from crime to natural disasters in a book, Cartographies of danger: Mapping hazards in America.
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