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In recent years, the world has increasingly been cleaving into two zones: smoking and nonsmoking. In the U.S. and other developed countries, Big Tobacco is in retreat, chased to the curbs by a combination of lawsuits, smoking bans, rising taxes and advertising restrictions. Fewer than 20% of adult Americans now...
And while it is understandable that the Catholic Church should desire to push back the rising tide of secularism in Spain, providing vaguely bigoted information to the Mezquita’s visitors is an inappropriate way to make such a stand. The Mezquita is a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site...
The problem facing Obama is that pressing for a two-state solution has put him at odds with a reluctant Israeli government that has now chosen the emotive issue of Jerusalem as the test of how far he's willing to go. If he backs down, Obama pulls the plug...
Exuberance can be contagious. Shares of China State Construction Engineering, the country's largest home developer, jumped 56% on July 29, the day of their debut on the Shanghai stock exchange. In Singapore, property prices are rising despite the city-state's sharp recession. The resale index for Housing and...
But Central Asia faces a complex and potent mix of religious conflict, political corruption, ideological violence and increasing poverty - not to mention factionalism within the governments of the region and the countries' distrust of one another. Add to all that fighters returning home to escape the war in Afghanistan, and...