links 04/22/08: End is Nigh Edition

Emptying my burgeoning browser tabs of "end is nigh" material:

• Russia looks at using oil money to buy U.S. companies (Times)
• Japan’s food shortages becoming more dire (TheAge)
• Food shortages — okay, rice shortages — have spread to the U.S. (N.Y. Sun)
• U.S. faces recession recovery alphabet soup: V vs U vs the dreaded L (FT)

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1. The Somewhat Shorter Alan Greenspan
2. Perfect Rice Technology, & the Prosumerification of Everything
3. Faces, Emotions, and “Handedness”
4. Preparing for the U.S. Recession
5. linkfest 02/17/08: Portfolio, etc.