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...Which misconceptions about your life in any of your roles would you like to erase so that we can better understand not only you, but also your culture and values? -Nalini Saxena in New York City My position attracts a fair amount of rumors and gossip and misperceptions, but I'd rather not focus on that. I'm amazed by the misconceptions about Muslim women and the Arab world that I hear, and that really does hurt me. I don't believe that there is fair enough understanding of either our status as women or the total context...
...portions have little to do with health. While 80% of Cheesecake Factory customers happily take home leftovers, at lunchtime those 80% feel like dorks for using the office refrigerator. So until 5 p.m., you can now order some dishes "lunch size." Although lunch size here seems to be the amount of food Shaq might eat to rev up for a game. The meat loaf came with the same mountain of gravied mashed potatoes and silo of corn as the normal size but with two pieces of meat loaf instead of three. And our weight-management salad was undentable. I went...
Percentage of America's GDP devoted to military expenditure in 2005, a lower proportion but higher dollar amount: the U.S. spent $495.3 billion, compared with Saudi Arabia's $25.4 billion...
...minimum, he has handed an extraordinary amount of authority, particularly over hiring and firing, to young, lightly credentialed and fiercely partisan aides who appear to have put politics ahead of the public interest. One of those aides was Sampson, 37, who assembled the list of U.S. attorneys to be fired and who was himself bucking for a U.S. ttorney post, despite the fact that he had limited experience as a prosecutor. The other was Monica Goodling, 33, the department's White House liaison, the product of a law school where more than half her graduating class flunked the bar exam...
...Brundtland noted that the fight must be joined by the highest producers of emissions, such as the United States, and also major developing countries. The United States is not a signatory to the Kyoto Protocol, a 1997 international treaty that caps the amount of carbon dioxide that can be emitted from power plants and factories in industrialized countries. Currently, developing countries like China and India are exempt from its obligations...