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...pizza, that she only eats cheese pizza, and that...She doesn’t have time to articulate fully this thought, instead losing her balance and falling into the dewy grass.I want to be honest with FM’s audience: I’m no fan of theocratic excess, but when I encounter such examples of well-dressed, smart people behaving badly, I silently wonder to myself, where are the Saudi religious police when you need them? Some will call this attitude Puritanical, a word that sounds nastier than it should, and will boldly defend students?...
...only the start of Boroffice's ambitious plans. A communications satellite designed to give even remote villagers access to the Internet is scheduled to be launched next year, and a second observation satellite is planned for 2009. To make the space program self-sustaining, Nigeria wants to sell excess bandwidth to other nations; a United Arab Emirates?based company reportedly has already signed a $250 million deal. "I'm very passionate about space technology, says Boroffice, 57, a former biology professor. "I see what it has done in India, and I want to do the same in Nigeria...
...research park. Those two hot-selling thrillers were set in, respectively, a Spanish resort community and a leafy French office campus. In both, a clueless visitor tries to unravel a shocking crime, eventually discovering that the stress and boredom of these ostensible Edens have driven their denizens to violent excess. Ballard has seen the enemy and he is us, at our worst. As a slightly less pessimistic British writer, Martin Amis, has observed: "Ballard is quite unlike anyone else. Indeed, he seems to address a different - a disused - part of the reader's brain." Kingdom Come addresses the shopping lobe...
...Court papers detail Ney's acknowledgment of exchanging official acts for benefits, including an August 2002 golf trip to Scotland, paid for by Abramoff and his clients. The junket, which included a White House procurement official as well as Ney's then chief of staff, cost in excess of $160,000, according to the papers...
Summers said that the world’s developing countries currently hold at least $1.5 trillion in excess reserves beyond what they need to cover short-term debt...