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...worldly things. Time has transfigured and deepened our relationship. The Ali family grew again, a niece or a granddaughter born in francophone Canada this fall. “Sophia au bain-bain!” a woman wrote, with an unopenable attachment of photographs. “Sophie en rose.” The messages have become more topical, given the conflict in the Arab world and Ali’s abiding relationship with the Zaytuna Institute. After the appearance of the Danish cartoon of Mohammed with a bomb in his turban, Ali wrote “fw: Cartoon Controversy...
...Tamiflu is taken far more often here than in any other country; Japanese doctors prescribed the drug 24.5 million times between 2001 and 2005,compared to just 6.5 million prescriptions in the U.S.) Cases that included neurological side effects seemed to spike at the same time that Tamiflu prescriptions rose in Japan. Nevertheless, it is possible that the side effects accompanied the disease and that more such extreme cases were seen because doctors were looking harder...
...Council, was previously the boss of the Preventative Security office. He has extensive business interests in Gaza, and has been dogged for years by corruption allegations. A native Gazan from Khan Yunis, he was a leader of the first intifada and has spent time in Israeli jails. He later rose though the ranks of the PLO and took part in negotiations in Oslo in 1993 and at Camp David in 2000. Dahlan has close ties with the Americans and the Israelis, particularly their intelligence services...
...business of slaking the world's growing thirst is lucrative, controversial and surprisingly French. Veolia is the world's biggest player in the management of water services. Last year sales rose 10.4%, to $13.2 billion, and earnings 16.7%, to $1.5 billion. Suez drew more than half its 2006 sales of $14.9 billion from the water business, making it the sector's No. 2 in the world...
...rather than undermine local economies, their enterprise and skills have helped the British and Irish economies remain robust. Conversely, unemployment is higher in France, which turned Poles away, than in Britain, where they were welcomed. The jobless rate in Ireland is just 4.5%; job-vacancy rates in some sectors rose in the past two years, to 17%. Over the past two years, according to an estimate by the Dublin-based Economic and Social Research Institute, migrant workers have added 2 percentage points to Ireland's gdp. And in December, citing increased migration to Britain, the British treasury raised...