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...French village in the early '90s. She's appalled that it's so hard to shop, but eventually the couple conclude that the French, by having concerns other than making a buck, have left a lot of good stuff alone - if it ain't broke, they don't fix it. Unlike Americans. City of the Future (1966-67) shows impossibly curvy, port-holed buildings, mocking a postwar attitude that led the country to destroy and deface too much of the past for Crumb's taste: "There is a big wonderful future tomorrow full of monumental achievements!...Everyone will be tuned...
...Larry Summers deserves credit for trying to fix the situation, both by encouraging faculty to interact with students, and by pledging to hire more faculty to reduce the professor-student ratio,” he wrote...
...both the World Bank and the Laos government believe that the Nam Theun 2 dam can help fix it. The project is the cornerstone of the government's giddy goal of becoming the "battery of Southeast Asia," and has been on the drawing board for almost 20 years. The dam will flood an area the size of Singapore, bleed one river almost dry and swell another, force the relocation of 6,200 people, and affect as many as another 100,000 living in and around the country's central Nakai Plateau. A joint project between the Laos government...
...Britain should continue to receive a €4 billion annual rebate on its payments. In 1984, then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher won the rebate for Britain by demanding: "I want my money back", and holding up E.U. business for months until she got it. E.U. leaders are supposed to fix a new budget framework this year for 2007-2013, and already there's disagreement over whether to increase the current €100 billion total by 1% - as France, Germany and some other fiscally-strapped members want - or by substantially more, as new members such as Poland are demanding...
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