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...rest of Iraq, is open for business. Passengers flying into Baghdad have to endure a corkscrew landing to avoid possible surface-to-air-missiles. But a trip to Erbil is so safe that I was the only passenger on my flight packing body armor. Upon arrival, my biggest problem was the $50 fare charged for a 10-minute cab ride by the drivers of Hello Taxi, and finding a reservation at one of the city's packed hotels...
...second-generation immigrant is a strong one, born of years of bitter experience. His answer was to leave France, first for Sweden and then Britain, where he advises clients on workforce diversity. "In the U.K., diversity is seen as an opportunity. In France it's still seen as a problem," he says. While some corporations are changing, he says, French politics is not. "When will France have the courage to really look at its problems...
...inherent risks, parkour encourages good habits. The sport is heavy on discipline and self-improvement. True traceurs don't smoke (because it would hurt their endurance) or run under the influence (because it would hurt their balance and agility). "The problem is that people see all these videos of high-level stuff, so they go home, jump off their roof and wonder why they blow out their knees," says Tyson Cecka, 20, a sophomore at the University of Washington who just spent a week in Los Angeles doing parkour for a sneaker commercial. "They don't understand that...
Experts who study the court say they have only recently figured out how to measure these ideological movements. A big problem has always been trying to compare Justices and cases from different decades. The math is complex, but Professor Lee Epstein of Northwestern Law School and three other professors came up with a formula that in effect puts the 26 Justices who served at least 10 court terms since 1937 on the bench at the same time. They essentially grouped cases involving similar areas of the law and placed the votes in those cases on a scale ranging from very...
...right-wing bully, but in "Limousine Liberal Hypocrisy" [March 26] he did well in demolishing sanctimonious grandstanding on the environment. What do Western leaders expect nearly 1 billion Chinese and Indian farmers to do--burn one less cow-dung cake to play their part in saving the world? The problem lies in the consumption patterns of the West, not those of ordinary Chinese or Indians. A meaningful dialogue on the environment can happen only when the per capita greenhouse-gas emissions of the West and the developing world equalize...