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There's a palpable sense of urgency at the construction site, where a line of high-rises--the first batch of offices and residences--is taking form along the aquamarine waters of the Red Sea. Dozens of businesses have signed on to set up shop in KAEC (pronounced cake), and the first 1,500 housing units sold out in days. In early 2009, the first business tenants will move in; the first residents, soon thereafter. The first school is planned to open by the end of next year, which will allow families to move...
Never mind the image of Mars as a dead and desolate world. The Red Planet has lately become one of the busiest little places in the solar system...
...Saudi Arabia is still some distance from being an investor's mecca. The kingdom ranks a woeful 137th on the World Bank's list when measured by ability to enforce contracts. For many investors, that will be a red flag. Saudi Arabia has also fared poorly on other lists that investors parse: it has slipped to 80th place on Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index for 2008, from 70th in 2005. By that reckoning, Saudi Arabia is one of the most corrupt places in the Middle East...
...ignoring conventional reasoning, but how can you ignore the time-tested strategy of establishing the running game when you have two great tailbacks, as Cornell does in Luke Siwula and Randy Barbour? The duo only has a combined 106 carries on the entire season while poor Big Red quarterback Nathan Ford has been forced to throw the ball 116 times in just his last two games. It just barely worked against so-so Lehigh two weeks ago, but last week’s 38-17 loss to Harvard should convince Cornell coach Jim Knowles to spread the wealth...
French President Nicolas Sarkozy is used to his decisions sparking street demonstrations, but he probably hadn't counted on Italian citizens flocking to picket the Elysée Palace. That's the threat Sarkozy now faces after reversing a pledge to extradite a former Red Brigades member Italy has convicted of murder. Amid accusations of justice denied, the Italian Association of Terrorism Victims says its members will travel to Paris on Saturday to denounce the reversal, which was at least partly the work of the President's Italian-born wife, Carla Bruni...