Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

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March 28, 2011 -- 6:30 a.m. CEST

Visit WSJ.com at U.S. | EUROPE | ASIA News by section: Front Section | Opinion | Front Section | | Front Section | |   FRONT SECTION 1 Fresh Airstrikes Aid Rebels Rebels fighting Col. Moammar Gadhafi's regime saw a revival in their fortunes as international airstrikes that started more than a week ago helped them regain territory previously lost to government forces. • Video: NATO Takes Command of Foreign Operations • Vote: Are allies doing the right thing by intervening? • Video | Map | Photos German Coalition Takes Hit Chancellor Angela Merkel's center-right coalition appears to have lost a key regional election in Germany's southwest on Sunday, which could weaken her authority and highlights the rise of Germany's Green party. 2 • AGENDA: New ESM Won't Solve Euro-zone Woes   3 • Regional Vote Slams Sarkozy   4 • Portugal's Sócrates Re-elected Party Leader • ECB Seeks New Liquidity Plan for Irish Banks   5 • Ukraine Opposition Warns of Setbacks   6 • Foreign Shocks Temper America's Export-Led Rebound • Happy? Statisticians Aren't Buying It   7 • REMEMBRANCES: Congresswoman Made History on National Ticket   8 • Radioactive Puddles Slow Cleanup • Lawmaker Broached Plant Risk • Environment & Science: Quakes Echo World-Wide   9 • Yemen Talks Stall • Syria Warns Protesters to Stop   10 • Starvation Risk Seen in Korea • THE OUTLOOK: Crises Nudge Debt Loads to Brink   OPINION 11 The Incredible Ms. Warren The White House aide does a weak-little-regulator routine. The Syrian Revolt Liberal illusions fall as Assad opens fire on demonstrators. The March of Health Progress A new report shows lower death rates and lower infant mortality. 12 OPINION • THE WEEKEND INTERVIEW: The Libya Mission Was 'Never About Regime Change' •  AHED AL HENDI: Syrians Cry 'Freedom!' Too   13 OPINION • Beware the 'Turkish Model' •  PETER J. WALLISON: Dodd-Frank's Threat to Financial Stability   FRONT SECTION 14 Effects of triple disaster will reverberate for months   FRONT SECTION 29 The Lighter Side of Counterfeiting Puts Zippo in a Fix "Always works—or we fix it" is Zippo's lighter slogan. But a huge number of Zippos happen to be rippos—and sometimes Zippo itself has trouble telling the difference between fakes and its own product. • Video: How to Tell a Zippo From a Rippo • Photos: Fixing Zippos, Not Rippos 30 • WORLD AT A GLANCE: World Watch   31 • BUSINESS AT A GLANCE: Business Watch View the latest What's News Online Past Editions of In Today's Paper advertisement   17 Stocks Shining as Bonds Lose Luster The U.S. stock market has powered back in the face of major global uncertainty. It may have bond investors to thank for that. Money managers and advisers say there has been a steady undercurrent of cash heading out of bonds and into equities. Nasdaq, ICE Weigh a Price for NYSE Nasdaq and IntercontinentalExchange have continued talks in recent days about a possible joint bid for NYSE Euronext, but the two companies still are working to overcome sticking points, including how much to bid. 18 • BP, Rosneft Look to Salvage Alliance • Siemens Division to Focus on Green Infrastructure • Ford Idles Plant to Conserve Parts • Corrections & Amplifications   19 • R&D Cuts Curb Brain-Drug Pipeline • Schaeffler Cuts Continental Stake to Reduce Debt   20 • Michelin Steps on the Gas   21 • Google Sets Role in Mobile Payment • Advertisers Wary of Myspace • At Google, Page Aims to Clear Red Tape   22 • Director Stayed on After SEC Letter • World Turns Up the Heat on Hostile Takeovers • Generali Chairman to Call Board Meeting Amid Rift   23 • Glencore to Launch Hong Kong Offering by End of April   24 • Longreach Draws Cash to Japan Deal Fund • Van de Weg on Contrarian Stock Picks   27 • PERSONAL TECHNOLOGY: In and Out Of Office: Putting iPads To Work • Color app probes limits of social-networking privacy   28 • A Plan to Improve U.S. Soccer • Tip of the day   32 HEARD ON THE STREET BlackBerry Maker's Slow-Motion Decline It should be evident by now that a corporate tragedy is underway at the proud Canadian firm Research In Motion. • digits: How Can RIM Win Investor Favor? HEARD ON THE STREET Cat Bonds' Nine Lives Betting against Mother Nature is a risky business—just ask catastrophe-bond investors. But while Japan's earthquake may spark short-term risk aversion and rising yields, recent disasters may boost the $13 billion market in the long term. HEARD ON THE STREET Trouble on the U.K. High Street After years of heroic spending, the U.K. consumer is showing signs of fatigue. Retailers' valuations may have further to drop.   R1 The Time to Innovate Is Now How can the nation offer more people quality health care at a price the country can afford? The answer is in innovation. • Read the full report. R2 • Critical (Re)thinking   R3 • Europe's Failing Health   R4 • Delivering Results   R5 • Medicine on the Move   R6 • How Can You Help the Medicine Go Down? • Namaste. Now Nap Time.   R7 • Making Clinical Trials Less of a Tribulation • Putting Traditional Chinese Medicine to the Test   R8 • The Secret to Fighting Infections