QUESTION FROM PATRICIA VADASY: If the Krugmans have pulled out of the stock market, I take serious note as an already nervous non-economist small investor.

The book Longitude by Dava Sobel tells the story of John Harrison who figured out how to calculate how far east or west a ship was on the ocean.

The other is their appalling leaders, the BNP's Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina Wajed of the AL—the women Bangladeshis call the “two begums”.