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That same discipline has kept him from investing in an all-business-class airline (not enough weekend traffic) or one for the Indian domestic market (too much competition, too many restrictive ownership rules). And it allows him to do things that, on the surface, appear extraordinarily risky. His pledge to devote all the profits from his transportation businesses to fighting global warming, for example, is actually just a decision to channel some of Virgin Group's money, up to $3 billion over a decade, into a wide range of environmental companies, some of them as prosaic as a start...
...devout Catholics crowd the new Washington Nationals Stadium this morning for a Holy Mass led by Pope Benedict XVI, animal protection is not likely to be on their minds. Amid the great questions of war, justice, and life, animals might also appear a humble concern for the leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics. But the Pope himself has suggested that the issue of animal protection is far from irrelevant to the Catholic faith...
...asks earnestly. “Your every desire,” she breathes. Great—the only problem is, she seems to have mastered the art of teleportation. First she’s gyrating on the dance floor. Then she vaporizes, only to appear again with her legs sprawled over his shoulders. With flashing, multicolored lights and cameos from celebrities like Kanye and Diddy, Usher’s task becomes even more daunting. Everything is unstable. But of course, Usher keeps his cool. Grown-up Hardy Boys never get flustered in the face of a little sexual temptation...
...speak. She only felt her head nod as of its own volition, saw again her body move without her command, her hand reaching out imperiously to take his arm. And she watched herself, as if from a distance, walk with The Stable Boy toward the stables.Chapter 4 to appear in ArtsMonday...
Almost 50 years later, the Castros appear to be hashing out their differences in print instead of hotel rooms - and this time it's Fidel who's arguing from the left. The 81-year-old comandante has made a new career of sorts as an op-ed scribe since he resigned as Cuba's President earlier this year because of health problems, leaving Raul to become the government's new No. 1 two months ago. Since then, Raul, 76, has ordered a series of small but significant economic reforms, from letting Cubans own cell phones to allowing farmers to till...