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...showcase project-Suvarnabhumi Airport, which opened just nine days after Thaksin fell from power-has been tainted by claims of a rush job and of corruption. Late last month, international inspectors refused to certify the airport as safe because of cracks in the taxiways. Resolving all these complex issues, the junta contends, won't be easy. "There certainly were abuses [during Thaksin's regime]," alleges Foreign Minister Nitya. "We are picking up the pieces ... but to get to the bottom of it all is really difficult...
...France get so big on babies? Generative behavior is a dauntingly complex thing. It reflects developments generations ago much the way a traffic jam on the autoroute can persist for hours after a crash has been cleared away. France, in fact, has long been something of a demographic exception in Europe. Its birthrate started to drop in the late 18th century, and over the course of the 19th century it was the French who worried as the British and Germans bred like rabbits. Prussia's victory in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-1871 strengthened the idea that having babies...
...camp, Gore stands in front of his cavalry for about 12 hours and explains the slide show presentation he gives in the movie. The volunteers are not required to follow a set script, but Gore offers specific advice on how to engage the audience and use metaphors to explain complex scientific information. A scientist on Gore's staff is present during the training to answer any technical questions posed by the volunteers, and a professional speech trainer offers public speaking advice...
...think there’s a huge disconnect between the community of Allston and Harvard,” he added. The 74-page master plan, which broadly outlines Harvard’s activities in Allston for the next 50 years, calls for the construction of a four-building science complex, an art museum, and the rerouting of several roads in the area. Harvard Director of Communications Kevin M. McCluskey ’76 justified the vagueness of the report by pointing to the unique needs of an academic institution. “The planning for a campus begins with academic...
...gotten his post onto the front page of China's most popular blog aggregator, www.blog.sina.com.cn. Regardless of motives or the merits of the argument (as the outlet is so discreet, I'm pretty agnostic, though there is something strange about having it right in the middle of the complex), the incident is a disturbing reminder that emotive nationalist posturing can be dangerously amplified by the web, and even acquire a life of its own. In China, as everywhere else, events in the blogosphere may have a powerful impact beyond the virtual world - for better and for worse...