In a dramatic reversal, Musharraf s minister of religious affairs, the son of former dictator General Zia ul Haq, promised to rebuild damaged mosques and even symbolically laid the first stone at one construction site.

At this time a dramatic shift in climate occurred, causing a significant drop in precipitation in the Titicaca Basin, believed by archaeologists to have been on the scale of a major drought.

Global problems have declined dramatically relative to the resources available to tackle them.

The result would be floods, drought, dramatically reduced food production, and a great loss of our precious biodiversity.

According to some estimates, Russia could increase its arable area by 10 million hectares, and its crop yields by 250 , thereby boosting grain exports dramatically.

The Kouchner Conversion

Turkey s Transformation

Failure to recognize this point can have significant consequences. As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.

Why Did Putin Turn?

A Trans Atlantic Transition

There is a dramatic discrepancy between the courage and tenacity of the demonstrators and fighters in Homs, Idlib, and Deraa, and the Syrian National Front, whose people and factions have failed to formulate a coherent political program, build an identity, and obtain name and face recognition.

Rumors become the truth

Mr. Arthur (Barbados) Today we gather, as a family of nations, to take stock of the progress that has been made in fulfilling the commitment that was given as part of our celebration of the start of a new century, to bring about a dramatic improvement in the human condition everywhere.

Paddy Ashdown The global power shift

Tipping Points to Asia s Future

Now, attention has now turned to food.

His attention then turned to the north.

Amir converted from Islam to Christianity in 1931.

It will adapt. It will adapt to its environment it's a durable mutation.

James Surowiecki When social media became news

A Watershed Doctrine for America

How do you take what you're dreaming of and make it happen?

China is at a turning point.

The would be perpetrators also became the primary victims.

But the energy transformation must begin now.

This enthusiasm for reform marks a paradigm shift.

It merely shifted from left to right.

Controls to prevent the supply of weapons to terrorists

And in the end it turned into a real device.

It is now a wizened and humiliated husk of a party.

Suddenly, this didn t seem quite right.

There has also been another significant shift in Asian attitudes.

Today, however, the eurozone s attention has shifted to growth.

Somewhere along the line, Asef became a double agent.

A more democratic Iraq has become a more violent Iraq.

A world that has returned to an animalistic state.

What once felt to me like dignified theatre seems more and more like dangerous farce.

The northern section of the island has been turned into an industrial area.

It has since been transformed into the Gaudí Museum.

Obstacles to accelerated progress

As integration has turned into disintegration, the role of the European political establishment has also reversed, from spearheading further unification to defending the status quo.

I am a serial entrepreneur turned serial investor.

Debate on this issue has become a hot topic between Iran and Afghanistan.

Signs of Hamas s shifting perspective are becoming increasingly apparent.

Most Greeks are aware that the country needs to be radically transformed.