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...Panama professor with the Center for Latin American Studies, says many Panamanians are "convinced Panama City's skyline gives us a better image," but warns the building spree is putting an enormous strain on the city's infrastructure. "The Trump Ocean Club is just another example of the chaotic situation Panama City finds itself today," Gandasegui said. "It is squeezed into a tiny dead-end street where it will share space with another dozen similar buildings. It will be part of a permanent traffic jam created by its designers." (Indeed, in a bid that may trump Trump, a project...
Popularly, China is a villain in climate change. Many people who attended last year's chaotic U.N. climate-change talks in Copenhagen - especially those who belonged to the U.S. delegation - singled out China as the main reason the summit nearly collapsed. Chinese diplomats fought hard against any form of emissions regulation, even though their country is now the world's No. 1 national carbon emitter, and will emit far more carbon in the future than any other. In Washington, opponents of carbon cap-and-trade also point to China, which is unlikely to take on a carbon...
...before us. We have a compulsion to categorize everything that we come into contact with into neatly drawn boxes—even though all our experiences of life point us to the contrary. Life doesn’t fit into boxes or categories—it is wild and chaotic and personal. Why, then, do we instinctively slap a label on everything we encounter...
...says a grown man should consume five packs of these cookies a day. But few Haitians were getting that many in the chaotic days after the quake. In the tent cities that sprang up all over Port-au-Prince, I frequently saw entire families sharing one person's rations...
Tasked with the unenviable job of trying to create order in Greece's chaotic financial-data system is Diomidis Spinellis, a former professor at the Athens University of Economics and Business who was recently appointed secretary general of the information systems for the Ministry of Finance. He's got grand plans for using technology to make the system more efficient - and make it harder for people to cheat. But that's his second priority. "Before we talk about radical undertakings, we have to deal with the basics," he says. An expensive auditing system, for example, has been languishing unused...