Word: landings
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...Central American politician to experience that epiphany in 2009. The real problem, says Lobo, is "our utter lack of vision about who we are and how to order ourselves." Ever since its Maya glory ended a millennium ago, Central America has been little more than a vulnerable land bridge whose political tragedies are matched only by its natural disasters: earthquakes, volcanoes and hurricanes such as Mitch, whose floods almost wiped Honduras off the map in 1998. Honduras has yet to really recover from that calamity - and a presidential election held under the cloud of a coup isn't going...
...Satyam's revenues by millions of dollars, boosting the company's share price and making its books look far healthier than they were. Investigators following the paper trail have discovered that embezzled funds were channeled into 1,065 properties valued at $74 million, including some 6,000 acres of land, 40,000 sq. yd. of housing plots, and 90,000 sq. ft. of other developed real estate. The properties, bought in the name of some 80 shell companies, included prime commercial plots in and around Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai and Nagpur. (See the worst business deals...
...immune forever," says Khwaja Muhammad Asif, a prominent lawmaker from Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N). "As long as he's in this office, he cannot be served with a warrant. But there is also a moral position - he holds the highest office in the land. For the dignity of that office, he's morally bound, if morality means anything to him, to leave his office and face the charges...
...Proboscis monkeys are not the park's only drawcard. There are long-tailed macaques, shy silver-leaf monkeys, bearded pigs and grass-green whip snakes. But although this enclave bursts with color, the land beyond is becoming increasingly monochromatic. Massive palm-tree plantations are destroying Borneo's habitats. The proboscis-monkey population has dropped between 50% and 80% in the last three generations and now stands at about 7,000 across the island. Junaidi Payne, the chief technical officer of the WWF's Borneo Malaysia Program, says that we owe a moral responsibility to the animals. "The human species...
...individuals. Anything that we talk about regards policy to a huge degree reflects the debates that have been held inside the party. And on policy, we have done very well - our policies have been very good. We have five priorities: education - critical; health - critical; rural development; job creation; and land reform. (See pictures of Johannesburg's preparations for soccer's World...