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...course, more than likely, Ctesias had never actually seen this creature himself, but was relying on other people's accounts. As unicorn expert (yes, they do exist), Odell Shepard explained in The Lore of the Unicorn, Ctesias most likely fused details of multiple creatures, including the Indian rhinoceros, to create this fantastical being. But during that era it was common for stories to travel great distances by word of mouth, and as Artistotle argued, when the tale made its way to him, was this single-horned, silvery being any more absurd to imagine than a giraffe or an elephant...
...Wild West," he says. "Now the governor has banned all weapons and private militias and is instituting an islandwide ID-card system." Coultrup says four-fifths of Basilan Island, another hub of Islamist agitation, is also much safer. "The secret to counterinsurgency is if the people can answer yes to two questions,'' says U.S. Special Forces Major Eric Walker: "One, do people believe the government is going to win? Two, if they turn over information to us, are they and their family going to survive?" The goal, Walker says, is "for them to answer yes to those...
...Yes. We will probably start with a few stores in England and see how that goes, but the intent would be to take advantage of all the change going on and put in a new store structure that connects these capabilities together...
...Yes, these are as many stores as we've ever had open. Overall, if the U.S. is going into recession it is a slight recession. You can very easily lose touch with the fact that this is still the strongest economy in the world by some distance. And we're quite confident that we will continue to grow sales in existing stores even in this very difficult climate. We're finding that our new stores are doing really well. Plus our new stores have the advantage of being fresh so we can open the very best stores we know...
...Whatever the fund's well-meaning guidelines, policing them across such a sprawling portfolio is ultimately impractical. "Is any one of these 7,000 companies behaving in ways that you would not be comfortable with?" asks Slyngstad. "Yes, of course." But his team, which is spread between Oslo, London, Shanghai and New York City, tries to use its heft strategically - for example, to pressure firms in a sector like Brazilian mining, in which exploitation of child labor persists. Nor will the environmentally unfriendly origins of the fund's cash prevent it from pressing for better ecological standards. Last year...