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...attract the attention of foreign scouts. And David Beckham clearly wasn't ready for oblivion. The 33-year-old England wide man, who in 2007 joined the Los Angeles Galaxy on a $250 million five-year contract, looks set to return to Europe, next January, and join glamor club AC Milan on loan. If the deal is finalized in the wake of Milan's premature announcement Wednesday, it would mark an essential step in Beckham's bid to reclaim his place in the England squad ahead of the 2010 World...
...unfortunate enough to set my academic sights on the United States, instead of well-endowed exoticas like China or Latin America for which Harvard has special Centers—and ac-companying budgets—set aside. As a consequence, finances were tight, at about $50 a day for gas, lodging, food, and research expenses combined—with 200 miles a day of driving, mostly fuel...
...military dismisses such tallies as exaggerated, and their provenance is often murky. In no case is it murkier than in the Aug. 22 strike on the western Afghan village of Azizabad. What is not in dispute is that U.S. special forces on the ground ordered an AC-130 gunship to attack at least two houses after they and their Afghan allies came under fire. The result of the attack, however, is far from certain. The Pentagon concluded that up to 35 insurgents and as many as seven civilians were killed. But the Afghan government, backed by a United Nations inquiry...
Whatever the tally, officials both inside and outside the U.S. military say attacks that kill civilians occur with distressing regularity; they generate headlines only when dozens die. Afghans vividly recall the July 2002 bombing of a wedding party--celebratory gunfire led to retaliation by an AC-130--that killed up to 48 civilians and wounded 117 in Oruzgan province; many were women and children. This past July, 47 people were killed and nine wounded on their way to a wedding in eastern Afghanistan. Among the dead were 39 women and children, including the bride-to-be, Afghan authorities said...
...move it to 75deg.-a comfortable, if slightly chilly number to my mind-you save 20% of the cost and energy of your air-conditioning bill. Schipper also says the savings from more-efficient air-conditioning systems can be enormous: in many Asian and European hotel rooms, the AC and electricity are activated only when you slip your magnetic room key into a slot near the door. A program to retrofit all public buildings with high-tech glass and insulation would save untold amounts of energy and electricity - and create thousands of green-collar jobs...