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There have been plenty of explanations for the problems at Bangkok's trouble-plagued Suvarnabhumi Airport since it opened, after 46 years of planning, last Sept. 28. Sinking swampland and hasty construction, Thai bureaucracy and allegedly corrupt deals by the former Thaksin regime are variously mooted as the causes of...
A little rejiggering of the pension arithmetic could improve things too. John Shoven, director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, believes that when you start receiving a pension should be based not on how long you have been alive but on how much longer you are expected to...
At just 7,500 light-years away, Eta Carinae is square in our cosmic ZIP code. An explosion--which could occur soon or just as easily not--would release deadly gamma radiation, but the finely focused beam in which the rays travel means the danger is likely to pass us...
Long debated as a concept, the polypill is ready for trial in Australia and New Zealand. A half-pink, half-white tablet manufactured by Dr. Reddy's Laboratories in India, it contains small doses of several well-known medications: aspirin (to prevent blood clots), a statin (to lower cholesterol), and...
Although U.S. and allied intelligence services have broken up parts of the nuclear-parts trafficking network run by A.Q. Khan, creator of Pakistan's atomic bomb, Iran has constructed a new - and possibly larger - clandestine network for acquiring nuclear technology, according to a new report by the International Institute for...