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...Those statistics make Asia's highways the meanest streets in the world. In Thailand, for example, road accidents are now the third leading cause of death after aids and heart attacks, according to the country's Ministry of Public Health. In China and India, where members of expanding middle classes are taking to the roads in record numbers, crash rates are growing out of control. Car ownership in China jumped 41% between 1999 and 2002, while over the same period accidents increased twice as fast, by more than 83%. P.K. Sikdar, director of the Central Road Research Institute...
...size of the state of Delaware, the contrast between rich and poor is appalling. Just 10 minutes outside Beirut in the Palestinian camps or the Shiite suburbs or 90 minutes outside of Beirut to either the rural north or the south, you realize why Lebanon is still a third-world country. One university researcher here estimates that 90 percent of the population lives below the government poverty line. And that figure would be much higher if it wasn’t for the fact that remittances sent from Lebanese abroad make up 24 percent of Lebanon?...
...sure what to do about it. The renegade palaeontologists have an idea. It's to get back to what Australia has produced over millions of years, (to rely) on animals and plants that are perfectly attuned to this land, that are used to drought . . . kangaroos need a third as much water as sheep. So Riversleigh has become much more than we ever anticipated. It's not only the treasure chest and window into all things wonderful and ancient; it's (a warning) to change the way we're utilizing Australia to ensure this wonderful, uniquely Australian story continues to unfold...
...World Poker Tour, the game took off again. "The games are classy affairs with megabucks at stake, and there are a lot of new people in the game," says World Poker Tour commentator Mike Sexton. "Poker is seen as a competition and a sport now, not as gambling per se." These days, the Golden Nugget, whose poker rooms shut down in 1989, is holding tournaments seven nights a week. One Nugget regular is Steve Kaufman, 58, a university professor and former rabbi from Cincinnati, Ohio, who keeps a second home in Las Vegas, and placed third at 2000's World...
...grossing film of all time in the U.S. Spider-Man 2 has set records of its own: it reached the $200 million mark for domestic box office in just eight days. These two sequels - and the third Harry Potter movie, The Prisoner of Azkaban - have also received the blessing of critics, some saying the projects are better the second or third time around. Everything old is gold again. Is this good news or bad? Does sequelmania provide evidence of a pop culture that has discovered a savory supply of renourishment or a culture that is simply feeding on itself? Indeed...