Something to Smile About

They were right, but hopelessly imprecise.

During the day, the curtain wall reflects light, while at night it is illuminated with blue LED lights.

The Committee took that criticism to heart, and this time decorated an institution with a proud past, but a clouded future.

The society's wish to expose criminals will be badly hurt if the names of complainants, even false complainants, will be published.

And what they've done here is they've put electrodes in its ganglia and its brain and then a transmitter on top, and it's on a big computer tracking ball.

It may have a population of less than one million, but it has a proud, heroic history and a rich culture built up over centuries of diverse ethnic and colonial influences.

But if the exit looks comfortably large, the public will be much more likely to remain calm, even if parts of the room are already filling with smoke.

The outcome of premature fiscal consolidation is all but foretold growth will slow, tax revenues will diminish, and the reduction in deficits will be disappointing.

When the data are correctly disaggregated a devastating panorama emerges indicators for indigenous people are invariably below the national average and their living conditions have a strong impact on the social and economic inequality curve.

When you open this for growing oil palms you're creating CO2 volcanoes that are emitting so much CO2 that my country is now the third largest emitter of greenhouse gasses in the world, after China and the United States.

Of course, the former NSA contractor Edward Snowden s revelations of the global reach and the extent of America s Internet and telephone surveillance are, to say the least, unpleasant.

Haiti was clearly in a desperate condition the most impoverished country in the Western Hemisphere, with a standard of living comparable to sub Saharan Africa despite being only a few hours by air from Miami.

A quarter century ago, a safe and prosperous Colombia seemed impossible. Yet it is now within reach.

The Palestinian people had made historic compromises to exercise their inalienable rights and live in peace and dignity the speaker therefore urged the international community not to lose sight of the fact that the occupation remained the most pervasive cause of all violations and injustices committed against the Palestinian people.

With regard to draft paragraph 3 (a), while his delegation understood the motivation for the amendment proposed by the representative of Singapore, it did not believe that a signature could express no approval at all, although there might be cases where it indicated approval of only part of a document rather than the document as a whole.