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...they filed a suit against local authorities to try to stop what they said was the illegal expropriation of their land for a tourism complex. Sure enough, as the case dragged through the courts over the past year, the remaining residents of what was once a picturesque village set amid the bamboo-forested hills of Jiangsu province about 125 miles (200 km) west of Shanghai say they were subject to intimidation ranging from officials pressuring their employers to downright murder threats. One stubborn farmer was sent a text message last June that concluded: "Your life hangs by a thread...
...looted art. The British and French carted home priceless works from their conquests, and many museums have bought pieces stolen from archeological digs. But Nazi art plunder is an especially emotive issue because so many of the paintings were taken from Jews who later died in concentration camps amid the greatest cataclysm of the 20th century. Indeed, an exhibition like this might have been unthinkable a few decades ago, when the fate of lost treasures seemed inconsequential compared to the destruction of families and entire communities in the Holocaust. But as Snyder says, enough time has passed for visitors today...
...Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Enviroment and Energy Building (Y2E2), which will house Stanford’s environmental science and energy researchers, comes amid a push by several schools—including Harvard—to make their campuses more sustainable. In particular, the minimization of energy and water use has also been a “key issue” in the construction of the Allston science complex, according to Nathalie Beauvais, the principal architect for the Allston Development Group...
...Doble is a nasty area, home to some nasty people, saying and doing nasty things. But most of those aren't from Doble. From what Sven and I saw, Doble itself, like much of Africa and Arabia, is a place full of hospitable villagers struggling to survive amid what the U.N. says has now overtaken Darfur as Africa's worst humanitarian disaster, with 1.8 million people in dire need of assistance. And if drought, starvation and disease weren't enough, they now find themselves on the latest battleground in a global war between the U.S. and al-Qaeda. The victims...
...life on the line - with 12 stitches in her heard as proof of it. In late 2003, as lawlessness gripped the city in the wake of the U.S. invasion, five burglars broker into her home late one night and demanded to know where the money was. Odhaib fought. Amid the initial struggle she managed to edge her husband and two children out of the room and alone faced the intruders. Odhaib clawed the masks off three before they managed to get her by the hair and bludgeon her with the butt of a pistol. She remembers how the blood splattered...