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...greatest flood danger to the Netherlands comes from the North Sea, which is more powerful and unpredictable than the Dutch rivers. So, Dutch law has historically required North Sea defenses to deliver a 1-in-10,000-years level of protection. "And now the Parliament wants to raise the North Sea standard to a 1-in-100,000-years level of protection," says Pier Vellinga, a senior government adviser and professor at Wageningen University and Research Center. Vellinga calculates that to maintain this higher level of protection, the Netherlands would have to commit about 0.2% of its GDP annually--some...
...smiles wanly, embarrassed now by that optimism. But how could he have known that the new life he was promising would expose his family to even greater danger and drive them out of the country? Yasser, who has been a loyal employee of Time's since the fall of Saddam Hussein, now keeps his family in Jordan, where they live among nearly 1 million other Iraqi exiles. His story mirrors Iraq's: a tale of hope and opportunity overwhelmed by terror and tragedy...
Yasser retains the optimism that allowed him to see hope amid the explosions of March 2003. He regards himself as lucky. Unlike most Iraqis, he has moved his family out of danger. He knows Amman isn't a permanent shelter: Jordan has been generous to Iraq's exiles, but their sheer number is straining the resources of the tiny kingdom. For the moment, however, Yasser is dwelling on small mercies. "My children are alive, and these days, that is enough to ask," he says. If a new life is no longer possible, he'll settle for just life...
...planes, including the A320, are still selling well, and EADS's helicopter and other military divisions reported strong sales and earnings this year. Ulrich Horstmann, an aviation analyst at Bayerische Landesbank, reckons there's an 80% chance that Airbus will be able to bounce back. "But there is a danger it'll get sucked into a vicious circle of job cuts, sinking morale and political infighting," he says. As for Airbus as a model for industrial cooperation, James Foreman-Peck, a professor at Cardiff Business School who specializes in European industrial policy, says it remains valid. But, he adds, "these...
...readers like my heroines," says Gregory. "There is something about women in a lot of danger making their own way that appeals." Which raises an interesting question: Is it the difference from their own lives or the similarity to the Tudors' situation that Gregory's fans find compelling? Though it's generally considered a period in which women were repressed, Beem--whose book The Lioness Roared focuses on female rule in English history--feels the Tudor era is of particular interest to women in positions of influence. In terms of being a female in a boys' club, Elizabeth...