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...world's largest river systems, it is also one of the most flood-prone. One solution is the Dhaka Integrated Flood Control Embankment. Its two main aims are laudable: protect eastern Dhaka from the overflowing Balu river and, with a road running along its top, ease the city's mind-bending traffic jams. But the $350 million project is so ill-conceived it will actually worsen flooding, claims landscape architect Iqbal Habib, one of many eminent Bangladeshi experts opposing it. Much of Dhaka is already ringed by similar embankments. These keep out the rivers (most of the time) but also...
...quick one, mind you. European leaders regularly argue that a hasty withdrawal would spell disaster for Afghanistan, neighboring Pakistan and for their own countries. French Defense Minister Hervé Morin has warned of "absolute chaos" if France pulled out and opened the door to a rush of other withdrawals. "When the security of our country is at stake," said British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in a speech earlier this month, "we cannot walk away...
Stop the presses: the Fed chairman says the recession is over and the recovery has begun! Never mind that, as Bernanke noted, this is by now common opinion among economic forecasters--and has been for weeks. Also never mind that Bernanke's prediction record as Fed chairman hasn't been stellar. This is the man, after all, who told Congress in March 2007 that "the impact ... of the problems in the subprime market seems likely to be contained...
...seriously. We here at FlyBy are no exception. We work until we feel like it's play. Or we tell ourselves that work is play! It's amazing what the mind can do. We've all been there. Nothing feels quite as pleasurable as working yourself into the ground, crossing off that item from your to-do list, and then promptly adding some more items in preparation for the coming week. Man, that was awesome...
...city government - much like New York City's Michael Bloomberg and Denver's John Hickenlooper, two other businessmen turned city executives. But the situation is so dire that, for a change, Bing has no long view - no transformative plan for a future Detroit. "There's no doubt in my mind we've got to think longer term," says Bing. "But that's not today. If we don't handle the problems we've got today, there is no long term...