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...purposes. In a tucked-away workshop, that's exactly what Suekichi does - working with old parts, he crafts watches one might imagine being worn by characters in a Jules Verne novel. Some 6,000 have been sold in the past 12 years - a very respectable figure, considering the amount one unhurried artisan can produce, and a demonstration of Suekichi's ability to imagine everyday objects afresh...
Perino recognizes that she has been thrown to the dogs. "Sixteen months is probably the right amount of time to be press secretary," Perino says, with an eye to her departure date, but "I don't know if this is the best time to be doing it." She has already begun thinking about what comes next. After the election, she and her husband, a British businessman whom she met on a flight from Denver to Chicago in 1997, are planning a cross-country drive with Henry to the Rockies, but she imagines staying in Washington for work in one form...
...That would be welcome in a state whose 92,000 inmates amount to the nation's third largest prison population. Over the past two decades, Florida has in many ways led a national get-tough-on-crime wave that has reduced some crime rates but has also given the U.S. the world's highest incarceration rate. Bush had championed the often rough boot camps for juvenile delinquents; but after Anderson's death, Florida's conservative legislature voted to abolish them. And it's beginning to listen to McDonough's argument that lowering recidivism will save the state the hundreds...
...Either the mechanism for funding student groups massively miscalculates the amount that they actually require, or else the UC is really, really bad at handling a balance sheet. Or both...
...Beirut, overstretched security forces and a lifeless economy, the Bekaa farmers this year have cultivated the largest hashish harvest since the war-torn 1980s when this fertile valley was awash with drug crops. Lebanese police estimate that some 16,000 acres (6,500 hectares) of hashish and a small amount of opium poppies were planted this year on the sun-baked plain of the northern Bekaa. "Lebanese hashish is the best in the world, better than Turkey and Afghanistan," says Ali, a Bekaa farmer standing in his field of knee-high hashish plants, the spiky saw-toothed cannabis leaves swaying...