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...minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder Recently given a welcome face-lift, buildings lining downtown K.L.'s restored heritage rows boast soaring ceilings, wrought-iron balconies and timber balustrades. Some of these 1930s gems - in an Art Deco style adapted for the tropics - also have air wells open to the sky. "People are beginning to realize the past has value," says Lim Huck Chin, a conservation architect. "Going out now has a more human face." See for yourself...
TAXES "The President got $84 from a timber company that [he] owns, and he's counted as a small business...
...even the President would qualify as one, thanks to investment income. Kerry had a basis in fact, although an obscure one. Bush reported $84 in income in 2001 from an entity called Lone Star Trust, whose main business was oil and gas; it later listed a stake in a timber company...
...absolute cop-out." But for the P.M., it was an effective political strike: after hinting in the first week of the campaign he would move on the contentious issue of logging in the island state's old-growth forests, the Prime Minister waited until Labor had been attacked by timber workers over its plans to protect vast new areas of forest - which ended up costing it two seats in Tasmania - before releasing his own plan. In the last few days, the campaign got personal. In a speech to the National Press Club, Howard labeled Latham "a behavioral policeman"; Latham pointed...
...have time to evaluate the impact of your work. WHAT DO YOUR ACTIVITIES HAVE TO DO WITH PEACE? Many of the wars that are being fought are over resources: oil and water in the Middle East. Here in Africa, we have minerals, we have land, we have timber. I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace. THE GREEN BELT MOVEMENT HAS PLANTED OVER 30 MILLION TREES. WHY TREES? The original idea was to give women firewood...