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...Faced against a widespread feeling of doom, I want to ask is there an enlightenment faction, are there opportunities in climate change?” he asked...
...gloom and doom, however. The United Arab Emirates, a federation that includes Dubai and six other states, has made $33 billion available to banks to calm the nerves of U.A.E. depositors and investors. And if the credit crunch shakes out property speculators and slows Dubai's growth to a more sustainable level, it should have the added benefit of taming inflation. "I am not necessarily thinking we are in a crash scenario," says EFG-Hermes managing director Hashem Montasser. "The economic situation is still very sound. [But] we will see a deceleration of prices, and it's probably a good...
...many green activists, climate change is fundamentally a moral issue. To accept a new generation of polluting coal plants is to doom future generations to an impoverished planet. So the response should be fundamentally moral as well, using the same tactics--civil disobedience, nonviolent protest--as those of the civil rights movement...
...must end its missile strikes against militants on Pakistani soil along the Afghan border, or risk losing its war on terror. "No matter who the President of America will be," Yousuf Raza Gilani told the AP earlier this week, continued strikes will fuel "anti-American sentiments." Such ire could doom Washington's efforts to rid Pakistan's lawless frontier of the Taliban and al-Qaeda forces that regularly launch attacks on U.S. and NATO forces in nearby Afghanistan. Highlighting how Afghanistan has eclipsed Iraq as a strategic issue, Baghdad didn't demand anything more of Obama than, in the words...
Those recently initiated into this group are anxious about their futures, says Susan Eaton, a senior vice president at Lee Hecht Harrison, a career consulting firm. She says she is counseling clients to remain positive and open-minded about their futures. "It's not all doom and gloom," she says, noting that she hasn't seen a curtailing of severance and benefits packages. "The reality is people are landing [safely]." Still, some of those landings have been bumpier than desirable. "You may need to reinvent yourself," Eaton says. "Some people are not going to go back to the same companies...