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To Saif, nothing illustrates the divide with the West more starkly than Libya's bizarre feud with Switzerland. It began when Gaddafi's son (and Saif's half brother) Hannibal and his wife were arrested in July 2008 in Geneva for allegedly assaulting their servants. Charges were dropped, but in...
For such a heralded contraption, the iPad came packaged in next to nothing: a box with little ostentation, save for an image of what you'd see when you opened it; the machine itself, prophylactically sealed against the elements; a cable; a plug. The last two components were tucked in...
On the iPad, magazines - in their electronic manifestation - get to be real magazines again, incarnated without paper. The iPad makes the electronic magazine something you get your hands on, something you can play with. Look at the fantabulous app from Popular Science in which each story is a wonderland that...
Another issue is the agricultural frontier that is constantly encroaching on the Amazon. Brazil is an agricultural powerhouse and the world's biggest exporter or producer of sugar, soy beans, coffee, orange juice, beef and chicken. Thirst for land, produce, and the jobs, development and hard currency they brings are...
But the bill's chief sponsor, Daniel Bacquelaine of the liberal Reformist Movement party, admits that cultural considerations have also come into play. "In an open society, we need common values and we need equal rights and duties," he says. Bacquelaine estimates the burqa is worn by only a few...