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...nine years to Barbara Alberstadt, a stunning former ballerina he first met at a party in Washington in 1980, during his racy tabloid years. She accompanied Wilson to Hollywood and Morocco while he served as kibitzer, gadfly and ad hoc consultant on Charlie Wilson's War. "We lived through mud slides, rain and windstorms," he says. "Barbara even got to ride a camel. I've done that a lot before," he adds dryly. In the 1980s he rode up and down the Khyber Pass, looking like John Wayne, in an effort to cheer on the mujahedin...
...dikes to control the rivers, but the $10 billion proposal has run into opposition from farmers whose land it would take. Massive Dutch-style dikes to hold back the sea - and future cyclone-induced waves - are probably even more unworkable. "The soil isn't steady as such - it's mud," says Rahman, who is a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and chair of the Climate Action Network South Asia. "You have these huge, rapidly changing geological dynamics here that make it a very hard place to protect...
...centuries-old debate: how do some nations attain long-term economic growth and an ever higher standard of living while others don't? What determines whether people in your part of the planet live in McMansions, mobile homes or mud huts? In the 18th century, proto-economist Adam Smith pointed to the transformative effect of the division of labor. In the 19th, David Ricardo highlighted the benefits of trade. In the 20th, Harvard University's Michael Porter made the case for industry clusters. Geography, physical capital, technology, worker education--they've all taken a turn as the supposed silver bullet...
You’d think that if you sent the Bulldogs’ workhorse tailback Mike McLeod out in the rain and mud with a broken toe, he might be slowed down. And you’d be right: last week in sloppy conditions against Brown, the junior record-breaker was limited to one touchdown. And 185 yards on 32 carries...
...impact of the boom on Darfur. "The per capita income has increased because many people are finding work with the [aid organizations] and the African Union or the United Nations, and then there is a knock-on effect of more purchases in the market," he says, sitting on the mud-brick wall around the land where his new house will rise. "But in the field of peace nothing has improved...