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...elsewhere, smart adaptation requires a lot more than good infrastructure and ecosystem management. Economic viability is also important, and that is not possible without insurance. In Louisiana and Florida, insurance companies responded to the burst of hurricanes in 2004 and 2005 by raising rates significantly, even canceling policies outright. How can hurricane-prone states retain coverage? "The only solution is to get the Federal Government to do what it did after September 11 and recognize that some risks are too large and costly for the private-insurance market to absorb on its own," says James Donelon, the state insurance commissioner...
Google makes virtually all its money--$10.6 billion in revenue last year and $3.1 billion in after-tax profit--selling advertisements. But except for a few endeavors like Google Maps, it's a media firm that produces no content. Rather than take on established media outfits as outright competitors, Google has been trying to persuade them to let it help them find audiences and sell ads. Some media powers have signed up. But the prospect of a world organized on Google's terms remains unsettling to executives accustomed to controlling the path their products take to consumers...
...growing civil-society movement agitating about everything from higher wages to "universal suffrage" (the local political jargon for full, direct elections) to clean air. Once known for their political apathy, Hong Kongers now want a greater role in the running of their city. Though he won't say it outright, Tsang knows that he needs to go beyond his formal-and narrow-base of support of China's leaders and Hong Kong's business tycoons to win wider public backing in order to get things done. "I think he's sincere," says Chinese University of Hong Kong political scientist Ivan...
...Pearl's execution but was in fact not the person who killed him. There exists videotape footage of the execution that minimizes KSM's role. And if KSM did indeed exaggerate his role in the Pearl murder, it raises the question of just what else he has exaggerated, or outright fabricated...
...agreed that the idea that Iran could soon possess a nuclear weapon is “doubtful.” According to Vali R. Nasr, a professor at the Naval Postgraduate School and senior fellow of the Kennedy School’s Dubai initiative, the possibility of outright attack is “fairly high.” “With each country being tough on the other side, showing a growling, uncompromising face, there is a great chance that either side will overreach,” he said. But Ray Takeyh, a senior fellow on the Council...