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...Floods are extremely common all over the country and getting more common in many places. The good news is that we understand how to reduce the odds of dying in one. So what can men (and women) do to override their brain's blind spots? The simplest solution is to stay inside. But if you do find yourself out in flood conditions, here are some survival strategies...
...understand you will meet with Alan Greenspan on your trip to Washington. What are you going to talk about...
Corruption is not a problem just for some countries; this is a global issue. And we understand that to fight corruption, we need to have very strong and comprehensive measures. We know our legal institutional framework needs to be further improved. We need to strengthen our financial markets and make them more transparent. We need to speed up administrative reforms relating to public servants - salaries of public servants must be increased, so that they have better incomes and stay away from problems. Corrupt behaviors must be severely punished. And we also need to improve the publicity and transparency in corruption...
...array of mostly unrelated objections, including abortion, neutrality, tax sovereignty, economic prospects, the loss of an Irish E.U. commissioner and the deregulation of the taxi trade. Indeed, an E.U. survey of 2,000 Irish "no" voters said the main reason they rejected the Treaty was that they did not understand...
...Perhaps the author's greatest feat, however, is his discipline. The best foreign correspondents understand that putting themselves in the story is sometimes effective and sometimes necessary, but they should never be the story. Mealer was just 28 when he first went to Congo, and this is his first book, but not once in All Things Must Fight to Live does he allow his presence to block out the country or its people. Rather than letting the war play out on his inner stage, he becomes a bit player in a colossal drama. "There were many ways of going...