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...Plenty of people in the U.S. could make the same observation. Nationwide, 10% of shopping-center stores sit empty, according to the real estate analytics firm Reis. That's the highest percentage of vacancies since 1992 - what you get when you mix a bad recession with a commercial real estate bust (thanks to years of overzealous building). (See pictures of Americans in their homes...
Most parents would probably say they talk to their teens about responsible driving, but Ginsburg notes specific techniques that the parents of the safest teen drivers tend to use. These include setting firm rules and boundaries for driving - such as no speeding, no talking on a cell phone or texting while on the road and no driving while intoxicated. Parents of safe drivers also tend to make it a point to explain to their children that the reason for their rules is to ensure the child's safety. ?They have to see the rules as a safety issue...
...interests. Robert Grenier, a former CIA station chief in Pakistan, believes the Taliban's worldview has changed since the U.S.-led invasion ousted it from power in late 2001. "Many of the leaders now see themselves as part of the global jihad," says Grenier, who heads the consulting firm ERG Partners. "Lots of Afghans see the U.S. presence as an occupation, and I can easily see how some of them would be motivated to strike at the U.S. wherever they can." If Grenier is right and the Taliban has joined al-Qaeda in taking the fight beyond central Asia, Western...
...first time in memory. That wasn't the last change he had in store: on Sept. 30, Lewis unexpectedly announced he will step down by the end of the year, leaving the giant bank scrambling to find a successor. The 62-year-old garnered plaudits as he climbed the firm's rungs over 40 years, but he has absorbed a series of blows for his stewardship of the company during the financial crisis - particularly his bold takeover of Merrill Lynch in September 2008, which many critics believe was not worth the $50 billion price tag. Merrill went on to lose...
...Asia Center at the Atlantic Council in Washington, the core of USAID's shortcomings is that it has outsourced "its thinking, planning and local interactions with the recipients" to Beltway contractors who are more incentivized to keep money flowing than getting results on the ground. In one case, a firm that was contracted to provide special surgical lights and other advanced technology to hospitals and clinics in the country reportedly failed to take into account the fact that there was no source of electricity to power the new equipment. (See pictures of the Red Cross at work...