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...tanks, are clean, orderly - and dull. Monotonous rows of Stalinist apartment blocks line the streets, and there are no traffic jams or bright advertising to bring life to the city. The omnipresent police keep crime in check, but also beat up "undesirables" in broad daylight. Some modern shops stock luxury consumer goods - at least in their windows - but most shoppers earn wages that barely cover staples. At night harsh floodlights glare over silent, empty streets. Exporting leftover Soviet weapons worldwide and, allegedly, serving as a conduit for illegal arms trafficking from Russia, help keep the Lukashenko state afloat...
...honored the box office of “The 40 Year-Old Virgin”—was a hit with the studio audience for two main reasons. One is its accuracy: having money fall from his ass is maybe the only way Steve Carell could increase his stock among Hollywood executives, who have already signed him to eight movies in the next two years. The other is how the song allows Carell to play off his own demeanor, to hysterical ends. The real Steve Carell is quiet, self-effacing, and reluctant to accept praise, traits he demonstrates during...
...about being intimate and unique,? he said, surveying the new two-story store, filled with handmade furs and trendy Spy bags. These days redefining luxury has become an art form as innovative purveyors of high-end products try to ride the vicissitudes of an unpredictable stock market and weather even more unpredictable global events. In the past five years, we've seen bling-bling luxury evolve into more personal luxury. Now there's small-scale luxury...
...Territory where they are protected, though government staff bait pastoral properties at the request of landholders. It's a common story: Eldridge says there aren't the funds or the staff to monitor changes in dingo populations other than as part of baiting programs on properties which are losing stock. "There are a number of buckets of money for pest-animal research but there are so many pests now and not enough money to go around," he says. With conservation of the dingo for its ecological role a departmental goal, Eldridge says that even if an animal has some...
...notoriously costly to maintain, federal Environment Minister Ian Campbell says pastoralists in the state's northwest and eastern Goldfields region are desperate to combat wild dogs hunting "in plague proportions." There, too, the problem is mixed breeds - Campbell says pastoralists haven't complained about dingoes to him - devastating stock and wildlife. The minister says pest hybrids should be treated differently to native animals - and believes it would be "an absolute tragedy" if the dingo disappeared from the bush: "Part of Australia's uniqueness is the incredible flora and fauna we have on this continent and the dingo...