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...next to godliness. People have never really been told that a litter box has to be kept squeaky clean. A cat is a very finicky creature. [If the litter box is dirty,] the cat will choose elsewhere. The other thing is the number of litter boxes: You need one per cat, plus one for the house ... When there are two cats, there [could be] territorial issues. By having multiple boxes, you make it more pleasant for them and you lower the chance of litter box problems. Once the out-of-litter-box issue begins, it's a lot harder...
...interview with TIME. The blame for high prices - a record $93.53 a barrel on Monday - should not fall on petroleum producers, he says. "How do you blame us?" asked Attiya, who also serves as deputy prime minister of Qatar, a small country of nearly one million people whose per capita income of $66,000 is the world's fifth-highest. "I am an oil producer and cannot tell you the oil price. I have to check with Reuters or Platts to tell you my oil price. I cannot fix my oil price. The international market will tell...
...become the world's largest supplier of liquefied natural gas as well as remaining a major oil producer. LNG production has gone from zero to 32 million tons annually and is expected to hit 77 million tons by 2010. Qatari oil production, meanwhile, has jumped from 350,000 barrels per day in 1995 to nearly 1 million barrels per day now. Although the fear factor has brought huge revenue windfalls, al-Attiya said, Qatar has no wish for further conflict in the region. "In the more than 70 years [of conflict in the Gulf], war is never the solution...
...goldmine for advertisement revenue. Between every half-inning and during every pitching change, there is now a commercial break of at least a few minutes. When there is a lot of money to be made (as in October), that means squeezing in, say, one extra minute of ads per break. The problem is that this squeezes at least 20 extra minutes into the baseball game...
...university, is among those investing in property. He rents one house to an AU officer and is building a second, which he hopes will push his rental earnings above his university salary. But he has mixed feelings about the overall 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...