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Sheik Ahmed was a senior member of the ruling al-Nahayan clan, and since 1997 was charged with overseeing the day-to-day runnings of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA). The fund has stakes in companies including Citigroup, the Hyatt Hotels and Britain's Gatwick airport. Engorged with Abu Dhabi's substantial oil surpluses, ADIA's assets are estimated at between $300 billion and $800 billion. It was Abu Dhabi's wealth that helped bail out sister city-state Dubai when it ran short of funds to complete the world's tallest building - which was then renamed...
...stressful to go through every day of your life with this conflict of body and mind,” he says. “I’ve become very skilled at disconnecting with my body, and having that one less thing to worry about will make day-to-day life so much easier...
...Rosenberg ’10, chair of Harvard Transgender Task Force, agrees that the lack of visibility can lead to unintentional discrimination, not only in the search for medical treatment, but also in day-to-day issues such as checking a male/female box on a form, changing one’s name, or using gender-specific restrooms...
...ease with which we misread not just pictures but conversations, people, events, and other things that occur in day-to-day life shows us how quick we are to make assumptions. Like in the case of the Guissette Muniz photograph, a girl on an empty street is immediately interpreted negatively because we project our impression of poverty onto what we see 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?...
...They like knowing the day-to-day life of people who went through important events in history," she said...