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...landscape, adding 1,200 miles (2,000 km) of additional beachfront property to a desert city-state whose natural coastline is a mere 37 miles (60 km). The $20 million extravaganza aims to nail down Dubai's reputation for luxurious excess - an ambition that seems almost anachronistic now that ill winds from Wall Street and the collapse in oil prices are buffeting the entire region...
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's latest plan for the $700 billion bailout fund has many economists responding like Seinfeld's Soup Nazi, "Next!" They say the idea of using funds approved by Congress in early October to stimulate credit card and auto lending is ill advised and unnecessary...
...course, there is the possibility that severely negative, perhaps even dangerous ideas may arise from any discussion. As hard as they try to be tolerant, people will inevitably be left feeling uncomfortable or ill at ease. However, the net social value arising from the experiment will undoubtedly be positive...
...scientific communities. Accusations have ranged from the dismissive - Chopra is just another huckster purveying watered-down Eastern wisdom mixed with pseudo science and pop psychology - to the outright damning. Chopra's extravagant claims for Ayurveda and other traditional healing techniques can, some have argued, create false hope in genuinely ill people and dissuade them from seeking medical care and guidance. Chopra has weathered all such claims, either with smiling equanimity or, on occasion, a call from his lawyers. In 1996 London's Weekly Standard published an article accusing him of such unsavory activities as plagiarism and soliciting a prostitute. Chopra...
Because of poor planning and ill-prepared government agencies, the U.S. military has assumed the primary responsibility for humanitarian aid in Iraq and Afghanistan, several war veterans said at a panel in Cabot House yesterday...