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...fueled by a daunting list of challenges, to include extreme poverty, corruption, internal conflicts, border disputes, uncontrolled borders and territorial waters, weak internal security capabilities, natural disasters, famine, lack of dependable water sources, and an underdeveloped infrastructure. The combination of these serious challenges creates an environment that is ripe for exploitation by extremists and criminal organizations...
...longevity calculator is what has given the website traction. Despite my shortcomings, according to the calculator, I'll make it to the ripe old age of 96 (I turn 50 this year)--maybe even to 97, if I eat more cheese...
...insurance is her own trust.At the end of the boat a little larger than a bedroom, Chris and Jacqui hovered at identical picking tables. Three bulbs shone on their bare hands as they flung the clear shrimp into bubbling tanks. They swept piles of sea grass, slick fish, red-ripe coral, and moray eels back into the water. Bouncing porpoises caught the chum.But at 2 a.m. the machine that mixes oxygen into the water stopped pumping. The shrimp began to suffocate and turned white. Jacqui cursed. Chris scrambled under the deck to tweak the hot motor.They would lose everything, hundreds...
...Spillane was more famous, more notorious, than any of those writers; for a time, he was the Elvis of fiction. His blockbuster status, along with his sex-and-violence plots and the muscular, almost steroidal, power of his imagery, made him ripe for satire. Sid Caesar played a Hammer character on Your Show of Shows. Al Feldstein led off the first issue of Panic, the sibling of Mad comic book, with a story called "Me, the Verdict," an acute burlesque of Spillane tropes. The highest compliment was paid by Fred Astaire, who in 1953's The Band Wagon devoted...
...widely seen as a possible Putin heir. After its brush with Ukraine, Gazprom is now pushing hard to acquire gas distribution and marketing companies in other countries; last week it acquired the industrial and commercial client base of Britain's privately-owned Pennine Natural Gas. The next sector ripe for state consolidation may be the pipeline business. According to official documents seen by Time, there are moves afoot within the Kremlin to create a huge oil and gas pipe-line monopoly based on an existing pipeline operator, Transneft. In February, Russian Industry and Energy Minister Viktor Khristenko submitted a report...