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...Baton Rouge, the state capital, is facing the worst electrical damage in its recorded history and isn't even mentioned. Ninety percent of the city was without power after Gustav hit. Thousands of homes were lost or suffered significant damage. New Orleans isn't the only city on the Gulf Coast. Sarah Glover, Baton Rouge, Louisiana...
...Baton Rouge, the state capital, is facing the worst electrical damage in its recorded history and isn't even mentioned. Ninety percent of the city was without power after Gustav hit. Thousands of homes were lost or suffered significant damage. New Orleans isn't the only city on the Gulf Coast. Sarah Glover, BATON ROUGE...
...vice president brought the disquieting news that Iraq's "ability to miniaturize weapons of mass destruction, particularly nuclear," had been "substantially refined since the first Gulf War," Armey recalled ... According to Armey, Cheney also reported that al Qaeda was "working with Saddam Hussein and members of his family...
About three years ago, when Saddiq Khan finished college in Pakistan and began working for a real estate brokerage firm in Dubai, it seemed impossible not to make money. Foreign buyers from Europe and the U.S. were flocking to the Gulf to get a slice of the oil boom and take advantage of the region's loose tax laws and resort lifestyle. Developers competed to launched one headline-grabbing mega-project after another: a ski slope inside a shopping mall, luxury skyscrapers, condos on artificial islands shaped like a giant palm tree. "It was crazy," says Khan...
...jitters on Wall Street could sharpen the eyes of Arab regulators for the kind of irrational exuberance that got American investors in hot water. "The unscrupulous spending of the past will be slowed in the months to come, which will have a positive impact overall," says Sfakianakis. "Many Gulf economies were growing so quickly that they were on the verge of overheating...