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...Obama needs to show the people he gets their problems, as if we didn't think he does, is simplistic. Why do you think the majority of us still like him? He respects our intelligence and seems to understand that we appreciate the enormousness of the challenge he faces. Jan Hurd Poulsbo, Wash...
When construction began on the Burj Dubai - as the record-breaking tower was originally called - Dubai was in the midst of an epic boom, fueled by foreign speculators and one luxury development project after another. By the time the tower opened on Jan. 4 with a lavish fireworks display, though, the showmanship had faded. Weeks earlier, Dubai's biggest state-owned development company had declared it was unable to pay its debts. Officially, Dubai owes its creditors $80 billion, though a recent report by regional investment bank EFG-Hermes estimates that the city may be in the hole...
Harvard Medical School began a review of its own conflict of interest policy in Jan. 2009 in conjunction with Harvard’s currently ongoing efforts to develop University-wide recommendations and guidelines...
...Mauawia is all he's cracked up to be, his interrogation might allow bin Laden's trackers to resume their hunt on a trail long gone cold. Every few months, an audiotape purported to be from bin Laden is released; the latest, on Jan. 10, praised Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the failed Christmas Day bomber, and ranted about global warming...
...Others are not so nonchalant. Last year, Jan Egeland, a U.N. special adviser on conflict resolution, said no place on earth was more deserving of international attention. Climate change, resource conflict and trafficking in drugs, arms and humans were combining to create "one lethal cocktail," he said. Speaking last year, a Western diplomat in Senegal concurred. "It looked like we'd turned the corner in West Africa," he told TIME on condition of anonymity, as per protocol. "Then suddenly it's coup here, coup there and cocaine everywhere. These things start spreading, and everything, everyone's interests, is down...