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...billion in long-overdue funds to fix India's cities. The money - for roads, sewer lines and mass-transit systems - comes with some very important strings attached. To get the money, state governments have to devolve more power to cities; and city governance would go hyper-local, giving some control over the spending to new, elected neighborhood councils. (See pictures of the tempestuous Nehru-Gandhi dynasty of India...
...took his practice runs. In July 1940, Cooley and a colleague leaped out of a plane over a fire in Idaho. Cooley's parachute lines became tangled on the way down, and he landed in the branches of a spruce tree. But the pair brought the blaze under control by the following morning...
...does a reality star regain control of her narrative? First, she blames her producers and the editing. Going Rogue's villain is Steve Schmidt, the very McCain mastermind who vetted her as a running mate. Palin argues that if you didn't like her last year, really you didn't like the version of her that her handlers put forth. The botched rollout of her daughter's pregnancy, her getting pranked by a Canadian DJ pretending to be Nicolas Sarkozy, the campaign-wardrobe bills--blame it all on Schmidt and the stuffed shirts. They couldn't deal with the rogue...
Still, a public figure could get used to the freelance life. Through her book (and Facebook), Palin gets to control her story. The interviews don't involve pop quizzes. And at a reported $5 million for Going Rogue, the paydays are lush. November 2012 is three years off, an eternity in the evolution of a reality-TV star. For now, there's no business like rogue business...
...feels his aging flesh deteriorating, he develops the habit of entering a trance wherein he pictures his body and then mentally erases portions of it; he begins with his toes, which instantly become numb. By this means, he imagines that he is bringing about his own death, piecemeal--seizing control of it and turning it into a volitional act, even an enjoyable one. "The process of dying by auto-dissolution affords the greatest ecstasy known to man," he tells us. The subtitle of The Original of Laura is Dying...