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Lifting off in his Russian MI-17 transporter helicopter from Patna in northeast India and banking low and east along the Ganges River delta, Captain S.K. Singh gets the clearest possible view of South Asia's water crisis. In front of him is a split-screen of disaster. On the left are catastrophic floods, the worst in a century according to relief workers, which have killed 1,500 people, disrupted the lives of 63 million and released a disease epidemic. A full two-thirds of Bangladesh is now under water, while 1.2 million homes have been washed away region-wide...
...Brin seem determined to spoil the party. Last week the company gave an unusually bullish official estimate of its opening share price: $108 to $135 per share, or more than 150 times annual profit per share. Historically, most large companies average about one-seventh of that. Google watchers were split on the reason. Either Page and Brin intend to be valued as highly...
...Ladin details the oppression of women in Saudi Arabia and within the bin Laden clan. Her first child was a girl and, writes bin Ladin, "Yeslam simply walked out when he learned that--turned on his heel and walked out of the hospital." After two more girls, the couple split. Still, he left her with something: a notorious name...
...just as Tehran is divided over how to deal with Washington, so is Washington split over how to deal with Tehran. The neo-conservative ideologues in the in the Bush administration have never made any secret of their desire to see the U.S. military pursue "regime change" in Tehran next. "Real men go to Tehran" was one of their playful slogans during the buildup to Operation Iraqi Freedom. And they took Iran's inclusion in President Bush's rhetorical "Axis of Evil" as a sign that their agenda might prevail. The neo-con view is that the Iranian regime...
...choice. I was going through what Lizzie was going through--that teenager stage where you don't really know who you are. It was a good thing for me, but I worked my butt off. Everybody made a big deal out of it, like it was this horrible split...