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...HEADGEAR $3,000 Cost of a shoulder-length, ceremonial wig worn by British judges and lawyers. The government announced that it would be abandoning the wigs in civil and family courts in 2008 $610,000 Amount the British government expects to save annually by ditching the wigs, which have been used in courts since the 17th century...
Greg Sang, a 41-year-old civil engineer from New Zealand, is in a hurry. In the 110 degrees F (43 degrees C) heat outside his site office, he tosses me a white hard hat and, leaving me sweating and struggling to keep up, strides briskly toward the base of the Burj Dubai, the soaring skyscraper he's in charge of building. Riding together in a jangling construction elevator, it takes us 3 min. 50 sec. to ascend to the giddy heights of the 104th floor - and the building's reach for the sky won't stop there...
...Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) came to her home to murder two of her sons and abduct her daughter to be a sex slave. Since then, the years have been a blur to the 60-year-old widow. And many who have suffered like her through the 20-year civil war just want to go home. Even if the cost is justice...
...details of a withdrawal? Do they dictate terms on how to involve NATO or other allies? Or even on how to negotiate with Iran and Syria over the withdrawal? And what if something happens to U.S. troops during the pullout or Iraq rapidly plunges into a bloody civil war as U.S. troops are leaving? Who is to blame? Bush? Congress...
...Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (the head of Fatah), this could also backfire. The $190 million package of U.S. aid Bush proposes to send to the Palestinians includes money to bolster Fatah-controlled security services - effectively arming Fatah thugs to fight Hamas thugs. This is a recipe for renewed Palestinian civil war, not nationhood. And if Hamas' recent victory over Fatah in Gaza is any guide, it's a civil war that America's allies might...