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Topic: How the World Works (page 5)

A conversation about globalization.

Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., makes her formal announcement to seek the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, Monday, June 27, 2011, in Waterloo, Iowa. Bachmann, who was born in Waterloo, will continue her announcement tour this week with stops in New Hampshire and South Carolina. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) (Charlie Riedel)

Bachmann-omics: An annotated guide

$A worker at EnCana's Frenchie Draw gas-drilling rig in central Wyoming guides sections of steel pipe into an 11,000-foot well on September 19, 2009. People living near gas drilling facilities in states including Pennsylvania, Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming have complained that their water has turned cloudy, foul-smelling, or even black as a result of chemicals used in a drilling technique called hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking." To match feature ENERGY/FRACKING-WATER REUTERS/Jon Hurdle (UNITED STATES SCI TECH ENVIRONMENT) (Reuters)$

FILE -- In this file photo of Thursday, June 16, 2011, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia, right, stands with House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio on Capitol Hill in Washington. Cantor, who has been participating in bipartisan budget talks headed by Vice President Joe Biden, pulled out today citing an impasse over taxes that required intervention by President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) (AP)

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., meets with reporters in his office at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, June 13, 2011. Cantor praised Vice President Joe Biden for his shepherding of the bi-partisan Congressional panel working to solve the debt crisis. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (AP)

(Gianni Dal Maso)

President Barack Obama delivers a televised address from the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, June 22, 2011 on his plan to drawdown U.S. troops in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, Pool) (Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

How unemployment got so bad, so fast

Wall Street's get-out-of-jail-free card

Former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman speaks at an event hosted by Thomson Reuters in New York, June 14, 2011. Huntsman will announce his bid for the White House next Tuesday, bringing a moderate Republican and expert on America's fastest growing competitor into the race to challenge President Barack Obama in 2012. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS) (Â© Brendan Mcdermid / Reuters)

Tim Pawlenty

Employees of Luen Thai, an apparel and fashion service provider, work at a production line in a factory in Dongguan, China's southern Guangdong province May 14,2010. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu (CHINA - Tags: BUSINESS) (Â© Siu Chiu / Reuters)

Beer being poured during a tour of Sprecher Brewery in Glendale, Wis.

Michele Bachmann and Ludwig von Mises

Hitting Obama where it hurts

An employee gestures to stop a photographer from taking pictures near a board showing recently increased fuel prices at a gas station in Hefei, Anhui province April 7, 2011. China will increase retail gasoline and diesel prices by 5-5.5 percent to new record highs from Thursday, the government said, easing the burden of state refiners who face international oil prices at 2.5-year highs. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA - Tags: BUSINESS ENERGY) (Â© Jianan Yu / Reuters)

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