Word: boastful
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...approach to fighting terrorism has been inadequate at best and seriously counterproductive at worst. Although some aspects of life in Afghanistan and Iraq have improved (and may potentially still), today they have become the rallying points and new training grounds for future terrorists worldwide. Although you like to boast on the campaign trail of the number of al Qaeda operatives arrested under your watch, the hard reality is that your deadly wars have been responsible for countless new terrorist factions, recruits and supporters. You have transformed the good will of the world following Sept. 11 into widespread ire and disgust...
...shop fronts. Green Shoes, tel: (44-1803) 864 997, cobbles to order "vegan" footwear, made from a synthetic leather called lorica. A few doors down, Willow Vegetarian Garden, tel: (44-1803) 862 205, serves mostly organic food and drink in a tasteful, rustic dining room. Nearby, small boutiques boast Japanese, British and other European designer threads, while others hawk surf and skater wear. And despite its ramshackle-sounding name, housewares retailer Tumble Home, tel: (44-1803) 863 024, stocks a collection of funky furniture...
...centuries-old shop fronts. Green Shoes, tel: (44-1803) 864997, cobbles to order "vegan" footwear from a synthetic leather called Lorica. A few doors down, Willow Vegetarian Garden, tel: (44-1803) 862205, serves mostly organic food and drink in a tasteful, rustic dining room. Nearby, small boutiques boast Japanese, British and other European designer threads, while others hawk surf and skater wear. And despite its ramshackle-sounding name, housewares retailer Tumble Home, tel: (44-1803) 863024, stocks a collection of funky furniture. If you'd like to spend the night, try Norwegian Wood, tel: (44-1803) 867462, located five minutes...
Children are slipping through other cracks in the government's optimistic report. The infant-mortality rate, for example, is twice as high among blacks as among whites. Children living in poverty are at greater risk for violent crime. And while the U.S. may boast of soaring high-school-graduation rates, children in poor families are still six times as likely as those in wealthier families to drop out. "So much of this is driven by child poverty," says Parker. "In 2002, more than 12 million children were poor, and those figures were up from both...
...Vegas casino operators are placing their biggest bets on China, where an age-old penchant for gambling is dovetailing with the world's fastest-growing economy. Millionaires are being minted every day in China, and the World Trade Organization predicts the country's booming middle class will boast half a billion people by 2014. "And frankly," says MGM Mirage CEO Terry Lanni, "there's not much to do with that money there to enjoy yourself." Enter Macau, the former Portuguese colony handed over to China in 1999. Last year some 12 million visitors poured into the 23-sq-km territory...