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" ... Part of the fun of Moleskine is the wonderful themed notebooks (be they licensed characters or eye-catching designs). Not that I don't love an excuse to buy more Moleskines, but a little part of me rankles whenever I pick up one of my normal notebooks and I know I that its contents will be forever trapped there. Also, Moleskine, could you pretty please add a bookmark to the Paper Tablets? ... "
" ... The result? “The overpriced projects left Sri Lanka owing $8 billion, or around 10 percent of the island’s debt,” explain Neil DeVotta and Sumit Ganguly. “That is close to what Sri Lanka owes Japan and India, but what rankles many is how Chinese loans have been used to fund questionable projects that generate little income. The situation has fueled accusations that China seeks to entice strategically located countries (others include Djibouti and the Maldives) into debt traps that it then leverages to seize control of key infrastructure.” ... "
" ... The switch from a standard based on “irreversible danger” to one grounded in “harm” rankles scientists. In its crudest application liberals invoke the precautionary principle as a means of deciding whether to allow corporate activity and technological innovation that merely might have undesirable side effects on health or the environment. In practice, the principle is strongly biased against the process of trial-and-error so vital to progress and the continued survival and well being of humanity. ... "
" ... The way in which he messed Barcelona around a year ago still rankles, and the club just can't take the risk that something would take the shine off of his presentation. ... "
" ... “While some of China’s infrastructure projects benefited the island, others proved to be costly white elephants that forced Sri Lanka into a debt trap,” say Neil DeVotta and Sumit Ganguly in “Sri Lanka’s Post—Civil War Problems,” published in the April issue of CURRENT HISTORY. Like the deep-sea Hambantota port project, the Colombo Port City complex, and the Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport. “The overpriced projects left Sri Lanka owing $8 billion, or around 10 percent of the island’s debt. That is close to what Sri Lanka owes Japan and India, but what rankles many is how Chinese loans have been used to fund questionable projects that generate little income.” ... "