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...wanted to celebrate my birthday this year - the first anniversary of my 49th birthday, he called it - I was at a loss to answer. No surprises, I said; even our routines already supply plenty of those. No extravagance: we're still in a recession. When I read about Naomi Campbell's $1.8 million party at a seven-star hotel in Dubai (still wasn't enough to save the local economy), or the British retail tycoon who marked his 55th by sending his guests a travel wallet with instructions to meet at a London airport and clear their calendar for five...
...while online statements are fine for retrieving specific information--say, last week's bar tab--internalizing broader spending habits is a different story. "The reality of what you're spending isn't nearly as strong," says Naomi Baron, a linguistics professor at American University who studies the impact of technology. That's especially true for those of us who sign up to have our bills--cell phone, cable--automatically debited each month from our bank accounts...
...With Chavez, the situation is not the mutual respect of respected, recognized individual’s in today’s society. Chavez will meet with anyone who—and this is key—will meet with him: This is how the list ends up headlined by Naomi Campbell, Danny Glover, and Michael Moore. Imagine that group discussing human rights together, or the role of the United States in Latin American affairs...
Strangely, it is Berlusconi who has not let the incident rest. He called his critics "imbeciles," saying the remark was meant as a compliment. "We'd all like to be tanned like Naomi Campbell and Obama," he said two weeks after the original one-liner. He has made other references to it in the months since. (See Berlusconi's worst gaffes...
...They say firing airguns in certain waters and at certain times of the year can be extremely harmful to a long list of sea creatures, including dolphins, whales, porpoises, giant squids, crabs and sea turtles. The noise the guns generate causes some animals to flee their native habitat, says Naomi Rose, senior scientist with the Maryland office of Humane Society International (HSI). "Their use can cause stress to some animals as well - and you should never underestimate the harm that stress can cause." (See 10 species facing extinction...