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...sand. "People pay their money, and the government closes their eyes," Mourn says. Government officials say they are aware of the growing problem. "The coast is not so good now because of the fast development," says Prak Visal, who heads the Sihanoukville branch of a regional coastal-management project. Solid-waste dumping, mangrove destruction, unsustainable fishing practices and illegal logging are a few of the challenges he says the area faces. But slowing things down? Not an option. "We protect, but we develop, too," Prak says...
...statistics to Prime Minister Geir Haarde who travels the world calming investors' nerves - the hysteria appears overblown. "What you'd expect to see out of these windows is fire," says Finnur Oddsson, managing director of the Iceland Chamber of Commerce. Instead, he peers out at a $138 million construction project at the University of Reykjavik. Iceland, he points out, has been in this situation before. In early 2006, credit agencies criticized Icelandic banks for their lack of transparency and reliance on international capital markets. Analysts' opprobrium drove the krona down by 25% against the dollar over six months. Yet Iceland...
...telling that the Secret Service code name for the press secretary was "Matrix." As McClellan notes, a large part of his job was - much like the villains in the Keanu Reeves film - to project the reality the White House wished the world to see, regardless of whether it actually existed...
...developing world. Rick Warren's Saddleback Church, for example, uses church-based clinics to provide basic health care in Africa. (Warren will serve on the foundation's advisory board.) I spoke by phone recently to Ari Johnson, 25, a Harvard medical student now working in Mali, West Africa, with Project Muso Ladamunen, a small Washington-based organization, who made Blair's point for him. "We've seen how potent the involvement of communities of different faiths can be," Johnson says, describing an international fund-raising effort around the Jewish festival of Sukkot to raise bed nets for Mali...
...Warren seems intent on tamping down expectations of speedy results from his ambitious project - a desire that runs somewhat counter to his inborn salesman's instinct. "This plan could take 50 years, so it might not be completed in my lifetime," he said at one point. "That's why I call the next generation the reformation generation...