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...would be expected with any large commercial real estate enterprise, General Growth is highly leveraged and was probably able to get mortgages with ease at the height of the real estate boom...
...chain reaction that is one more piece of evidence of global warming's devastating impact. Coupled with other climate change phenomena, like the boom in jellyfish off the coast of Spain and the appearance of a new, ecosystem-upsetting species of shrimp near Tunisia, Gorgonia mortality looks to be remaking the sea into a very different place...
...marijuana, and even harder drugs. But that argument is symptomatic of the all-too-popular American mindset to not think about internationally interconnected problems thoroughly. Legalization in the U.S., Canada, or more European countries will exacerbate the violence if the same drugs are not legalized in Mexico. Demand would boom, and the competition to supply the product would intensify. Cartels would fight the government and each other even more to control precious supply lanes through borders...
...inflow of illegal money. The U.S. government's recently released 2009 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report backs up those suspicions. Guatemala also has an unusually high number of luxury cars and high-end real estate purchases, Lee says, and buyers often pay in cash. Guatemala City has seen a boom in fancy high-rise apartment and office buildings in recent years, which authorities and analysts suspect is driven in no small part by money laundering. "One can find entire condominium complexes that never sold" any units, says Lee. (See pictures of drug lords' latest cocaine hubs...
...measure - popularity, membership, moral authority - the party is in decline. Its leaders are embroiled in a series of scandals involving both corruption and ineptitude. As a government, it has failed to stem raging violent crime and the world's largest HIV/AIDS epidemic. It has presided over an economic boom that has made millionaires of a well-connected élite but left countless lives unchanged. As a party, it is accused of politicizing the police and the bureaucracy and showing contempt for the constitutional democracy for which it fought so long. (See pictures of South Africa...