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...This is a harrowing experience, tightrope walking over the financial abyss. American Dreamers are optimistic, but few can tread that wire now without looking down in panic. We're geared to believe that risk begets reward and our tomorrows are brighter than our todays. One-strike-and-you're-out is a neck-snapping reversal for a culture accustomed to assuming that fate is a welcome friend...
...place oozes elegant opulence, a throwback to the rich history of its home at the Willard Intercontinental Hotel, the "residence of presidents." A steady stream of mainstay figures in American history - Abraham Lincoln, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Bill Clinton, Aretha Franklin, Elizabeth Taylor and Barack Obama, to name a few - have tread the halls of the Willard and frequented the Round Robin...
Ousted President Pervez Musharraf once described balancing such demands as "tightrope-walking." Now the rope has grown slender, and Zardari will have to tread it amid fierce winds. More than 7 in 10 Pakistanis oppose military cooperation with the U.S. For many, the fight has always been an American war. Zardari must change that perception, and one way to do that is to use the latest attack--whose victims were overwhelmingly Pakistani--to turn public opinion...
...Othman. "Al-Maliki could do something about it, then pardon him or release him with a fine. Many people support al-Zaidi." Othman adds: "People will blame al-Maliki if he is sentenced or if he's been tortured ... And we are in an election year." Al-Maliki must tread lightly to make sure that the most disdained item of clothing in the Arab world, the shoe, doesn't trample his ambitions at the ballot...
...products that have emerged from the research-and-development labs of cement, steel and chemicals firms this decade, and it signals an increasing commitment by heavy industry to the notion of "sustainability." As public pressure has grown to reduce energy use and carbon emissions--and in general to tread more lightly on the environment--companies in these industries have poured money into R&D efforts. Much of the work has focused on internal processes, especially on the critical task of how to lower emissions during manufacturing. But in their labs, scientists have also been playing with the materials themselves, swapping...