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...counted upon to cause serious problems somewhere in the country at least once a decade. But people here are haunted by the specter of the disasters to come if--as seems inevitable--greenhouse effects cause sea levels to rise higher and higher. Indeed, it was Maldives' President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom who first raised the issue of global climate change from the perspective of a small island nation to the U.N.'s General Assembly nearly two decades...
...high for too long. That's what happened seven years ago, when a prolonged heightening of sea-surface temperatures, triggered by the 1997-1998 El Niņo, ripped through the Indian Ocean like a forest fire. In some areas, coral mortality approached 70%. The reefs are recovering, says Abdul Azeez Abdul Hakeem, director of conservation for the Banyan Tree resort, but no one knows what will happen to them as the world's oceans continue to warm...
Some once robust financial institutions have also been hit by questionable dealings involving bank insiders. Dubai's Abdul Wahad Galadari, former chairman of the Union Bank of the Middle East, borrowed heavily from his bank to speculate in gold and silver. When the Dubai government rushed in to rescue the failing UBME in November 1983, officials found that Galadari owed $8.7 million...
...their product's name. The company reports that sales of Ayds were up slightly for the fiscal year that ended July 31. Says Frank DiPrima, executive vice president of Jeffrey Martin: "This product has been named Ayds for more than 45 years. Let the disease change its name." INVESTMENTS Abdul-Jabbar's Tall Story...
...allowed to drive, let alone vote, Saudi Arabia's top religious leader took one small step toward gender equality last week when he banned the practice of forcing women to marry against their will. Calling such coercion "un-Islamic" and "a major injustice," the kingdom's Grand Mufti, Sheik Abdul Aziz al-Asheik, proclaimed that fathers and male guardians who try to force their daughters into wedlock should be thrown in jail until the men change their minds. He made it clear that forced marriages originated as a pre-Islamic custom and are antithetical to Shari'a law, which stipulates...