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...Using economics to influence behavior is something this country is built on-it's called capitalism.' MICHAEL BLOOMBERG, New York City mayor, who is considering charging people a fee for driving into the heart of Manhattan
...proposed tunnel beneath the Bering Strait connecting Russia and Alaska, which would be the longest in the world 20 Years the project could take to complete, according to organizers of an April 24 conference to study its feasibility. The 50-km Channel Tunnel between Britain and France was built in seven years...
...More than that, Seidemann suggests, a wall reflects badly on its builder. It is a physical manifestation of failed policies, a last resort in lieu of a better solution. "When a wall becomes an ideology or a panacea," Seidemann argues, "it says a lot more about the people who built it than those it's keeping out." Of course, nations have the right to protect themselves. But it's worth remembering that walls trap those who are hunkered down behind them as well as those who are turned away...
...Using economics to influence public behavior is something this country is built on--it's called capitalism...
...unhappiness with Putin dismantling everything he had created and stood for. Putin's policies, said Filatov, chagrined Yeltsin to the point of expediting his demise. This week, Komsomolskaya Pravda, a Gazprom-owned, heavily pro-Kremlin Moscow daily, ran its list of Yeltsin's top mistakes and top achievements, "built on our audiences' opinions." It held that his biggest mistake was dissolving the Soviet Union. And that his last great achievement was handing over power to Putin. If Russians are thinking this way, then Yeltsin can't be solely to blame for what came after...