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...Fueling Instability Your article about an increase in investment in African oil fields set off tremors of anxiety [June 11]. I fail to understand why the West has not learned from past investment in Middle Eastern oil. The money earned from the West by Arabs and Iranians is the major reason for all the troubles in the West. Do Western governments believe that reducing their dependence on Middle Eastern oil and shifting the money into African hands will reduce their problems? That is a utopian dream. Africans with loads of money will be a far greater threat to Western civilization...
...Reithofer is more upbeat. Faced with low-cost competition from Asia and Eastern Europe, he says, "many German firms did their homework, and now they are benefiting from it." He thinks Germany could go further, for example, in reducing high nonwage labor costs. But Germany still has competitive advantages, he says, pointing to its traditional engineering prowess combined with a newer ability to cater to the needs of individual clients. The challenge, he tells TIME: "It's all about mastering complexity...
...colorful markets selling headscarves and niquabs and, above all, famous all-night shisha cafes. Since they were set up in the 1980s, the cafes have become a mecca for students, bohemians and free-thinkers of various stripe to congregate with Muslims and engage in that most ubiquitous of Middle Eastern pastimes, smoking the hookah. Scented tobacco is burned on coals and sucked through an ornate water vessel before being inhaled, inducing a strong nicotine high. Originally intended for visiting Gulf sheikhs and Middle Eastern expats, in recent years the cafes have become trendy amongst a new generation of multicultural British...
...Oily Trade-Off Your article about an increase in investment in African oil fields set off tremors of anxiety [June 11]. I fail to understand why the West has not learned from past investment in Middle Eastern oil. The money earned from the West by Arabs and Iranians is the major reason for all the troubles in the West. Do Western governments believe that reducing their dependence on Middle Eastern oil and shifting the money into African hands will reduce their problems? That is a utopian dream. Africans with loads of money will be a far greater threat to Western...
...other men nabbed late Sunday at the hospital's residences are also thought to be of Middle Eastern origin, according to British media reports...