The lakeside architecture of Chicago.

look like jellyfish legs, also polyurethane.

And also these very life like, intrinsically painted silicone legs.

These upright apes evolved on the African savanna about two million years ago, and they made these splendid hand axes that fit wonderfully into your hands.

Turkey today is a Janus like geography that offers gates and doorways to the East and West.

Second, the current strategy, which amounts to trying to extract blood from a stone, is not working.

More rapid resolution may be necessary to prevent zombie banks from infecting the financial system.

Indian politicians were initially proud of the Westminster style parliamentary system that they adopted upon Independence.

The best outcome resembling Spain in 1982 is the most optimistic.

Without a stimulating family or family like setting, such children cannot develop their full potential.

Los Angeles gets the Oscar, with Soviet style queues through security.

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Before a match starts, the two contestants raise their hands to show that they are not hiding weapons in the folds of their loincloth like belt.

Now there are a number of diagnostic tests, akin to marketers rules of thumb, for certain conditions.

Zombie like companies were kept on artificial life support in the false hope that time alone would revive them.

These upright apes evolved on the African savanna about two million years ago, and they made these splendid hand axes that fit wonderfully into your hands.

Nonetheless, Europe has continued to pursue its quixotic course, even without a global treaty on reducing carbon emissions.

Roughly 80 of China s energy imports pass through that potential chokepoint, which is mostly policed by the US Navy.

First, the EU should work to Finlandize Ukraine, whose foreign policy, like Tito s, is now officially non aligned.

The communist Knight, the new caballero de la triste figura, a kind of enlightened idiot, blinded by his loyalty to the unreal and by his harsh political correctness, considers Lenin a new Moses.

The parallel to Chase s book today is the 2012 bestseller Why Nations Fail by the economist Daron Acemoglu and the political scientist James Robinson.

The film depicts a nightmarish world in which poverty in one generation is passed on to the next, with the cruel, costly, and inefficient war on drugs facilitating the process.

The other euro zone countries, however, will not let Greece go under, because they fear a domino effect similar to the one triggered among banks by the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008.

During the protest, organizers denounced that the government, in defense of the interests of the big forestry entrepreneurs, keep usurping the lands of the Mapuche peoples, suppressing their fight and criminalizing their demands

Only the weakest of Asian states will submit willingly to Chinese hegemony or, for that matter, to a Cold War style US led containment strategy.

But this style of government essentially an electoral campaign, not a government virtually guarantees that almost nothing of real importance can be accomplished.

The iconic, Mona Lisa like visage of Chairman Mao still gazes out from the Gate of Heavenly Peace, but what was happening all around me suggested how much things had changed.

In such a Tower of Babel, German Chancellor Angela Merkel s call for a political union to save the euro is wishful thinking, even for the staunchest European official.

Thus, when a large financial firm runs into problems that require a government bailout, the government should be prepared to provide a safety net to depositors and depositor like creditors, but not to bondholders.

Zombie banks dead but still walking among the living are, in Ed Kane s immortal words, gambling on resurrection.

But, while these considerations provide a basis for providing full protection to depositors and other depositor like creditors when a financial institution is bailed out, they do not justify extending such protection to bondholders.

Although they are physically a fantasy sci fi mix of blue skin and cat like movement, they are culturally a mix of Native Americans and Vietnamese, with Arabic accents thrown in.

With what one commentator described as his rock star looks and PR charm, Mark Carney, the former governor of the Bank of Canada, has taken the city by storm in his first weeks as Governor of the Bank of England.

Young women are put into these visible, cheerleader roles even when their professional development might be better suited to their being unseen in a lab, or slogging away over copy late at night, or addressing a room from a position of authority.

In such chicken and egg situations, in which the market alone fails to overcome externalities and essential investments go lacking, the government can play a vital facilitating role.

Much of the world is wondering how such a successful economy could allow its politics to spin out of control. What accounts for the armies of protesters distinguished, gang like, by the color of their shirts whose mutual antipathy often borders on nihilistic rage?

The measures that he took contributed more than anything else to earning India long derided for its license permit quota Raj and its snail like Hindu rate of growth a global reputation as the world s next big economic success story.

A well capitalized IMF, much better capitalized than pre crisis, should be able to fill this backstop similar to what central banks do (and did in the crisis) to prevent a credit freeze and the inevitable and excessive economic damage that would result.

While an international legal code that defines cyber attacks more clearly, together with cooperation on preventive measures, can help, such arms control solutions are not likely to be sufficient.