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...After meeting with the families, it was clear to me what we had to do to make this right for them, for Yahoo, and for the future." - in a November 2007 statement after Yahoo! agreed to compensate Chinese journalists jailed after Yahoo! turned over details of their pro-Democracy Internet activity to Chinese authorities
...critics say the surgeries are more dangerous than the glossy advertising and glowing testimonials suggest. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists issued a committee opinion last year warning that women may experience scarring, chronic pain, obstetric risks or reduced sexual pleasure; a similar statement was issued in July by the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Which is why the New View Campaign - with the endorsement of dozens of sex educators, doctors and psychologists from around the world - is demanding new regulations that would require the Federal Trade Commission's consumer protection division to monitor...
Obama's green promise also sent an unvarnished signal to some of the most influential climate negotiators in the world - including representatives for China and Indonesia, who will be vital in completing a new Kyoto Protocol - that he intends to fight climate change head-on. And his statement may well buoy the flagging global momentum on climate change. The European Union, which has long led the world in aggressively addressing global warming, has lately gotten cold feet about its own ambitious carbon targets, with poorer members like Poland arguing that such goals are unaffordable in a depressed global economy...
...decision to go ahead with the high-gloss opening, even as hotel bookings evaporate across the world, is yet another brash statement of Dubai's ambition and confidence. "In Dubai, if you have a fantasy, you don't just fantasize about it, you build it," says Sultan bin Sulayem, Kerzner's partner in the Atlantis, whose firm, Nakheel, constructed the Palm. "It's astounding," agrees Kerzner, sipping Perrier with Sultan recently in the Atlantis' lobby bar. "When I first came here, we were in the middle of the desert. You wonder how you can continue at this pace, at what...
...Aviv funeral, one of his sons cried out: "I'll find my father's killer, and I'll cut off his head! I'll smash his balls!" The quote circulated widely in the Israeli press. Later, the family issued a statement saying it would not seek retribution, but few are buying it, least of all the police and Tel Aviv's other crime families. An officer was quoted by YnetNews, an Internet wire service, as saying, "[The Alperons] have to retaliate - besides the fact that they have a moral debt to their brother, if they do nothing, the Alperon name...