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...United Malays National Organization (UMNO), won a landslide victory. Abdullah quickly got to work, postponing or scaling back several of the huge?and hugely expensive?infrastructure projects that Mahathir favored. The government's previously somnolent Anti-Corruption Agency swung into action, launching a series of prosecutions of politicians and businessmen. And a special commission was established to look into corruption in the police force. In recent months, however, prosecutions against corruption have dried up, and the police commission's recommendations have yet to be implemented. "Abdullah has appeared strangely indecisive," says human-rights activist S. Arulchelvam. "He speaks the reform...
...solar panels and purifying waste water - account for 3% of all jobs in the region. "We've got four times as many jobs in the solar-power sector than anywhere else in Germany," beams Salomon, who's a member of the Greens. Architect Rolf Disch is one of the businessmen who has benefited from that environmental focus. He ducks under a low-hanging beam as he steps out onto the roof of the solar-powered office and apartment building in the Vauban neighborhood, which he designed and which opened last week. Below him stretch row after row of brightly painted...
Aboard the ferry, local businessmen wheel and deal and sometimes talk like visionaries. Henry Smith, the man in charge of federal No Child Left Behind programs in St. Bernard, daydreams about building schools on stilts with dorms above them for shelter during hurricane season. Right now, he's just hoping to turn an old Wal-Mart into classrooms for some of the parish's 8,500 students. Builder Terry Tedesco, who sold pricey half-acre lots in his Woodlands development before Katrina flooded him out, is pitching ready-built homes for $150,000. "Why rebuild a house that...
...going to benefit from this largess? It won’t be the poor Superdome victims highlighted on national television. Instead, chances are that cronyism and corruption will line the pockets of well-connected businessmen and officials. The government has a proven inability to manage and oversee spending (just think about the Big Dig), and Louisiana—a byword for political corruption—is probably the last place in America that should get billions of no-strings-attached dollars. This is the state that ranked third in per capita public corruption convictions over the past decade. (Neighborhing Mississippi...
...China's forests once teemed with pangolin. But the reproductive capacity of the slow-moving mammal is no match for Chinese appetites, and pangolins have been all but eradicated on the mainland. Now gourmets, traditional medicine practitioners and businessmen looking to show off their wealth rely on the likes of Jema'ah. But even in distant Sumatran forests, the pangolin is growing harder to find. "I used to catch big ones" of up to 20 kilograms, Jema'ah says. "But the biggest I catch these days are eight kilos...