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...Hong Kong and got into a lift to go up to a restaurant on the seventh floor, where we were greeted by 20 Chinese guys saying 'Ciao' and singing 'O Sole Mio.' I thought, 'This is crazy.' A restaurant has to have some soul. The whole make-believe world has to have some basis in reality...
Still, Qatar insists it is not trying to become the next Dubai. Emir Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, Qatar's ruler, doesn't want to make his country a global capital, so much as use his nation's gas resources to move what was once a tribal, Bedouin society into the modern world with Muslim culture and values intact. Qatar, say state officials, will never try to do the kind of high-volume business that put Dubai on the map but also made it so vulnerable to a speculative bubble. "Dubai is all about numbers and bringing in huge infrastructure...
...American Psychiatric Association has proposed the first revision of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders since 1994. Draft changes to the manual--considered by many to be the bible of modern psychiatry--include broadening the spectrums of eating disorders and autism. Though the updates may help make diagnoses more accurate, critics say they could also lead to overdiagnosis of some illnesses...
...invasive species--nonnative flora and fauna that can quickly overrun an ecosystem--was virtually nonexistent. With the dawn of global trade, transporting critters to new continents was encouraged. Beginning in the 16th century, farmers in North America introduced wheat, rice, soybeans and cattle, among other imports, which today make up huge portions of U.S. food production...
Greece suddenly found itself with a solid, reliable currency. Its government and businesses could borrow at lower interest rates than before. The country boomed, with real GDP growth topping 3.8% for eight straight years. (During the same 2000-07 run, U.S. GDP growth never hit 3.7%; Germany didn't make it past 3.2%.) It seemed as though Greece had landed a one-way ticket to economic good times...