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...Xanadu's president insists the mall is the real deal. "For people driving by who don't like how the front of it looks, please, give yourself a chance to understand the whole package," Siegel says. That would be a reasonable request from any mall developer. Unfortunately, it was reasonable back in 2006. Forget about paradise, Xanadu. Just try to stay out of hell...
...Douglas Melton, co-director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, gathered his entire staff to listen to Obama's announcement and served cake in celebration. James Thomson, the University of Wisconsin scientist responsible for isolating the first human embryonic stem cells in 1998, flew to Washington at Obama's request to watch the signing in person. (See the top 10 scientific discoveries...
...Thottam for a very interesting piece on India's fencing of its border with Bangladesh. Indeed, India assisted Bangladesh in its 1971 war of independence with Pakistan, partly out of strategic and historic needs, and has generously accommodated several million economic refugees and migrants from Bangladesh. I would now request the author to also research the economic hardships being caused among Bangladeshi farmers by dams being built in India on rivers flowing into Bangladesh, and see whether this is forcing poorer segments of Bangladesh's rural society to look across the border to India for a living. Nadeem Khan, London...
...California's quest to control greenhouse gases goes back a few years. It originally applied for a waiver from EPA's national jurisdiction on December 21, 2005. The request was denied by then EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson on March 6, 2008. At the urging of President Obama, the EPA is now reconsidering that original waiver request...
...trial, Khodorkovsky and Lebedev will face an old nemesis, prosecutor Dmitry Shokhin, who helped convict the tycoon in 2005. A defense request for the removal of the judge after Khodrokovsky was prevented from sitting outside a cage during the trial was denied, as was a request to change prosecutors. Ten pro-Khodorkovsky demonstrators were arrested earlier this week. The court adjourned on Friday until March 11, pending a defense request to terminate the case on the grounds that the defendant committed no crime...