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...Peter Beinart is the author of The Good Fight: Why Liberals--and Only Liberals--Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again
...voice of the boom. Treasurer Peter Costello has been Australia's carnival barker for 10 years. Using a backdrop of blissful financial chart lines, Costello can sound like an auctioneer. Promoting his 11th Budget at a recent Liberal Party fundraising event for 700 in Sydney, Costello was in full boom. Heckling the man who was about to cut their taxes by $100 a week was not this crowd's style. Where a property salesman employs a gavel, Costello does a PowerPoint floor show with happy hands and a jerky delivery. You can never predict when Costello's number will switch...
...that debate. But a yes vote will only make it the first Australian community to officially welcome recycled water into its kitchens. Richmond, on Sydney's outskirts, takes water from the Hawkesbury River, into which treated effluent is discharged, as does Adelaide, from the Murray. Says csiro water expert Peter Dillon: "There are probably more people in the world taking water supplies from sources that receive effluent than people who don't." Many Australians are already drinking recycled water-they just don't get to vote on whether they want...
...This is the most significant development so far in terms of public health." PETER CORDINGLEY, World Health Organization spokesperson, on a cluster of human bird-flu cases in a family in north Sumatra, Indonesia, which officials believe may represent the first time the H5N1 virus has passed between multiple human hosts...
...Seatmates Peter Shankman sees air travel as a risky business. But it's not the plane he worries about. It's the empty seat on his left?and who's going to fill it. "You watch people coming down the aisle toward you and the theme from Jaws is playing in your head. You're thinking, 'Oh no, not this one' or 'That one looks like bathing is optional.'" So the 33-year-old U.S. marketing and P.R. executive created AirTroductions, an online service that matches up air travelers for business, friendship, romance?whatever you want from an in-flight...