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...Minister Thaksin Shinawatra last month, Thailand's growth was decelerating, in part because of rising oil prices and months of political gridlock. But the new regime will not necessarily make things worse. "The coup creates near-term uncertainty, no question," says emerging-markets expert Marc Faber, publisher of The Gloom, Boom & Doom Report. "Having said that, I don't think this will have a huge impact on the financial and manufacturing sector." In a reassuring move, the new administration tapped central-bank governor Pridiyathorn Devakula, a respected technocrat who helped extricate Thailand from the 1997 Asian financial crisis...
...failed to find where Ghosh was "unstinting in his praise and admiration for the courage and integrity of the American servicemen and -women in Iraq," as indicated by managing editor Richard Stengel in his To Our Readers column. In all the gloom, surely there is a ray of hope resulting from the actions of the courageous troops in Iraq. Frank Bacon Los Ranchos de Albuquerque, New Mexico...
...brutal honesty. Erika Jang Evanston, Illinois, U.S. I failed to find where Ghosh was "unstinting in his praise and admiration for the courage and integrity of the American servicemen and -women in Iraq," as indicated by managing editor Richard Stengel in his To Our Readers column. In all the gloom, surely there is a ray of hope resulting from the actions of the courageous troops in Iraq. Frank Bacon Los Ranchos de Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S. Ghosh's "Baghdad Diary" put me in mind of a famous World War II saying: We sure liberated the hell out of that place...
...women 81.4 years. The study seeks to raise awareness that America faces huge national health challenges. “Messages about these factors aren’t getting to people who need to hear them the most,” said Ezzati. Nevertheless, it’s not all gloom and doom. The disparities in death rates are caused mostly by preventable or treatable diseases...
Striding past ceremonial Circassian guards into a sitting room at Basman Palace, King Abdullah II is looking fresh and energetic, as if he has just come from another spin around town on his treasured Harley-Davidson. But his natural ebullience masked an uncharacteristic inner gloom that deepened this summer when the Middle East was plunged into yet another conflict with the Israeli-Hizballah war in Lebanon...