Guinea: Country Finds Hope in Alumina Refinery (AllAfrica.com)
Tami Hultman Washington, D.C. In the dry season, a pervasive red dust wafts from the crushers at the bauxite operations that have dominated economic activity for over three decades in Guinea home to a third of the world s known supply of the raw material for aluminum.

Leading Life Expectancy Underwriter Joins Life-Exchange (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
MIAMI----In its continual push to provide the life settlement industry with the most comprehensive set of services available, Life-Exchange, Inc. , the leader in electronic trading for the life settlement industry, announced today that ISC Services, one of the life settlement industry's leading underwriters, has joined Life-Exchange.

Jury awards $3 million to potter's widow in asbestos case (phillyburbs.com)
NEWARK, N.J. - A jury on Thursday awarded $3 million to a woman who claimed her husband, a potter, died because he contracted a fatal disease from asbestos fibers inhaled while working with a material he used for glazes.

Viewpoints: Remembering Milton Friedman (International Herald Tribune)
The death this week of Milton Friedman, the conservative economist and recipient of a Nobel in 1976, sparked a wave of reminiscence and reflection at the University of Chicago, where Friedman spent much of his intellectual life.