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...handed me the little leather square that contained my life. When I opened my wallet up I could hardly believe my eyes—every last bill was just as I had left it. Marty explained that he had seen the wallet out of the corner of his eye on the ground in Times Square. Without thinking twice, he raced past others to grab it. There was no question in his mind what he should do. He raced home and somehow found my home phone number. I didn’t know what to think. I had always thought that...
...Aesih came back to see if her friends were OK (one survived, another is still missing) that unpreparedness was all too evident. Nothing remained of her friend's house, and the beach was now littered with debris as far as the eye could see. "I am very happy to be alive," she says. "But every time I feel an aftershock I feel like that might change." As the country limps from one natural disaster to the next, millions of Indonesians will remain on edge...
...productive. Such aid programs are run entirely by local staff and villagers. The low volume of funds involved reduces corruption risks. Those programs don't require helicopters or fleets of vehicles, and they pay for themselves through the economic benefits that they generate. They fail to catch the public eye, however, and hence remain desperately underfunded. Yet it is by making modest investments in very large numbers of the most vulnerable people in the world that millions can enjoy a better, longer life. And the need for high-profile crisis interventions will be reduced. Andrew MacMillan Scansano, Italy Overstretched Referees...
...Alabbar, started taking its expertise on the road in 2002, achieving a market cap worth $20 billion. Currently, in addition to constructing Burj Dubai, touted as the world's tallest skyscraper, Alabbar is busy with undertakings from hotels in Miami to a convention center in Hyderabad, India. His eye-catching projects include the $26.6 billion construction of an entire new metropolis in the Saudi Arabian desert to be called King Abdullah Economic City and a global hotel and condo partnership with Italian designer Giorgio Armani...
...Sometimes I found them difficult and slow. At times it looks like nothing's happened. But you have to look with a different eye. We're so used to going to the cinema and being told: Now you cry, now a moment of suspense. It's passive, and you take the ride...