The US Treasury has been charged by Congress to assess whether China is a currency manipulator.

And cigarette makers have learned how to manipulate the properties of their product to make it maximally addictive.

Their lives are on the line, with low wages, and they are betrayed after death.

Milton portrays conversation as an art or creation that people can play with and give life to.

She manipulates him into thinking Adele and Frank are going to abandon him and he accidentally reveals Frank's past.

The first to suffer from this situation are young people and children, who are manipulated, recruited and pressed into service by armed groups to satisfy various needs of a military, logistical or sexual nature.

If you're creative enough, playful enough, fun enough, can you get through to anybody? Yes or no?

Development is not limited to mobilizing funds on an exceptional basis when there is no other choice and when the media manipulate people's emotions.

Unilateral countervailing duties against countries that are hypothetically manipulating their exchange rates are equally bad.

European Central Bank President Jean Claude Trichet would never allow this to happen to the ECB he manipulates markets markets don t manipulate him.

Countries that repeatedly ignore recommendations for reducing excessive deficits, and those that manipulate official statistics, should have their EU funds frozen and their voting rights suspended.

Alwar Balasubramaniam's sculpture plays with time, shape, shadow, perspective four tricky sensations that can reveal or conceal what's really out there. At TEDIndia, the artist shows slides of his extraordinary installations.

And these dynamics are a little scary sometimes, because you think, you know, other people can be using forces that will manipulate how I interact what I do, where I do it, when I do it.

China has been criticized in the past for allegedly manipulating its exchange rate, because it did not revalue its currency as much as the US demanded.

The US House of Representatives has passed a bill that would allow duties to be imposed on imports from countries, like China, that manipulate their currencies for trade advantage.

The Chinese authorities are manipulating criminal legal procedures to detain Mr. Zhao without trial and deprive him of his due process rights under Chinese and international law.

Light comes through, it bounces back off the layers it's called thin film interference. Imagine being able to self assemble products with the last few layers playing with light to create color.

The suggestion is that a vindictive prime minister is playing politics in punishing the saintly Yunus, the man who pioneered microfinance, for having threatened to enter politics.

Today, pressure is increasing for the US Treasury to follow Nixon s misguided example and issue a finding (due by April 15th) that China is manipulating its exchange rate.

Because I think all of you will agree that the only legitimate purpose of government is to serve citizens, and I would argue that the only legitimate purpose of technology is to improve our lives, not to manipulate or enslave us.

And yet, at around the same time, the United States Congress issued its loudest call ever to classify China as an exchange rate manipulator, accusing Chinese leaders of maintaining the renminbi s peg to the dollar in order to guarantee a permanent bilateral trade surplus.

All that happened was that average taxpayers gave money to the very institutions that had been gouging them for years through predatory lending, usurious credit card interest rates, and non transparent fees.

The suggestion is that a vindictive prime minister is playing politics in punishing the saintly Yunus, the man who pioneered microfinance, for having threatened to enter politics. Sheikh Hasina is even being compared to Russia s Vladimir Putin in his campaign against the oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky.