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...have lived in some quite frenetic cities, yet Beirut is the only place where chaos is the order of the day. There is no privacy in this city. For one thing, friends and family drop by unannounced. You will always bump into someone you know, whether at a bar, in a shop or on the streets. A couple of years ago, while scouting a location for a film, I got stuck at a very busy intersection. I considered making a U-turn to avoid gridlock. I asked the traffic officer...
...value in a single day. More than $11 billion in market value was erased, and the company's brash chairman, Michael Saylor, 35, personally lost $6 billion in paper wealth in less time than it takes to say overvalued dotcom. "There's no doubt this is a bump in the road," Saylor said bravely, "but we signed up to change the world and never believed it was going to be easy...
...from work). Meanwhile, various news articles quote anti-inoculation groups as saying the figure is about a thousand. So, if I split the difference and quadruple the military's numbers - to, say, 400 - that's still 1,000 to 1 that I come away with nothing worse than a bump on my arm, which...
Littlebrook has come to know the geese so well he can identify individual birds and their birth years--from the distinctive brown goose to the gander with a bump on his head, whom Littlebrook calls a "dirty...
Everyone knows there's nothing better than a night-light to banish those monsters that go bump in the night. And so when a study linking the use of night-lights to nearsightedness was published in 1999, guilt-wracked parents were forced to choose between their children's comfort and their own peace of mind. Tonight, parents and children alike can sleep a bit easier: Two studies published in this week's issue of the journal Nature go a long way toward debunking last year's scare; researchers were unable to duplicate the findings reported in the preliminary study. They...