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...legislative system enough to fix the philippines? No. We also need the cleaning-up of undesirable and corrupt practices that have eroded the people's faith in government. Corruption, red tape and the poor enforcement of laws [deter] investors; our country's strategic location?in the middle of the South China Sea and the Pacific Ocean?and our high-quality workers cannot offset that. In the global economy, anything that a country lacks, it can import and outsource?except for two items: good governance and national pride, which must be homegrown...
...everything outright to her kids. In marriages like yours, estate lawyers say, such arrangements are rarely necessary. They are cumbersome, cost more and can incite strife in a grieving family. Most of all, in a case like yours, it would make trouble where there is none in order to fix something that's not broken. --By Francine Russo...
...WILL THE FILLER BE TRIMMED? Robinson will secure his feet to the end of the shuttle?s manipulator arm and be lowered under the nose of the ship-a place where spacewalking astronauts have never ventured. His first attempted fix will be a decidedly low-tech one: He?ll try to pluck the fabric free. If that doesn?t work, he?ll use a blade-a portion of which has been taped over to prevent it from nicking the ship. If that fails, he?ll try a small...
...WHAT MIGHT BE DONE ABOUT IT . . . The Discovery crew will be testing several new ways NASA has devised to diagnose and fix launch damage before a shuttle returns to Earth ?THE SPACE STATION Astronauts aboard the space station are taking high-resolution photographs of each shuttle before it docks with the station. That's one way the small "divots," or scrapes--including the one near the nosewheel well--were found on Discovery's underbelly ?THE ROBOTIC ARM Discovery is equipped with a new 50-ft. (15.2-m) robotic arm that will reach out from the cargo...
...missionary still has a mission: to liberate movies from the ordinary. "My problem," he says, "is I'm like a junkie. I want a good movie fix, and I never get that fix. I want to be taken into some place, some world, some idea that I haven't thought of or imagined. And it doesn't happen." Transporting viewers to that place means a lot of heavy lifting. It's a big job, but maybe Terry Gilliam...