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...shock is what is needed to restructure the banking rules in Europe, one may be underway. Economists are warning that the Continent is facing its biggest crisis since the Depression - when Europeans also first mistakenly thought the problem would remain confined to the U.S. One leading German politician, Interior Minister Wolfgang Schauble, even raised the specter of the kind of longer term economic dislocation that led to the rise of Adolf Hitler. "Four months ago," says economist Schmidt, "I might have said that it may not get worse. But we have not seen anything like this before. I cannot...
...long way to walk from Adams,” she says that she may return after sections are over: “it might be a good place to study during exams because the couches are so comfy.” Elements such as interior bridges that overlook from an upper story connect to a lounge area below. “It’s almost like a hill town as you move through the building itself,” Hartman says. The expansive glass walls make the outside landscape a backdrop for the building’s buzz...
...what appears from the outside as a serene Cartesian box gives way inside to something ever more complicated. On either side of the building's interior "piazza" are two giant spheres, both sliced at the bottom. One is an opaque steel ball that encloses the 290-seat planetarium. The other, a glass globe, holds a multistory re-creation of a rain forest. This globe in turn sits against a wide glass wall that looks onto the cultivated woodlands of Golden Gate Park, mingling views of rain forest and parkland until this very rational building seems just about overtaken...
...about a third of that, and supplies are projected to dwindle further. Alaska has seen these boom-and-bust cycles before. The "seal mines" of the Pribilof Islands, the salmon canneries, the Klondike gold rush--all these short-lived booms appealed to what New Deal--era Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes once derided as Alaska's "gambling spirit." Palin is now rolling the dice on the national stage with a political persona based in part on her willingness to challenge the big oil companies. To many Americans, it's an appealing pitch, and Palin's record suggests that...
...also commented on the recent Interior Department scandal in which department regulators were found to be sexually involved with businesspeople in the industry they regulate. He said, “We joke about administrators being ‘in bed’ with industry—for these guys, that was no metaphor...