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...material," says Diego Trigo, a machinist and member of the Sindicato Ferroviario (Railroad Trade Union) and member of Valencia Railways' Safety Committee. "Regarding upkeep and maintenance, there is definitely a considerable lack of prevision." Other views are more drastic: "We warned the company this was going to happen," said Antonio Ayala, a machinist with 25 years of experience guiding trains...
...basketball purists have griped that the very success of Wade's one-on-five isolation game is a setback for a league that had only recently, with the help of rule changes, brought back the beauty of old-fashioned team basketball - the kind practiced by the Detroit Pistons, San Antonio Spurs and, yes, Dallas Mavericks. But most are just happy to celebrate a superstar unique in his own right...
...city officials who were considering the since-approved $39 million plan to improve the L.A. Zoo's elephant exhibit. "It's been nine months. Gita had osteomyelitis in her toes and was losing bones in her feet. She was in pain daily." Richardson,?a former veterinarian?for the San Antonio and Woodland Park zoos, had not examined Gita but had reviewed hundreds of pages of her medical records secured under the California open records law by In Defense of Animals, a California-based organization that had been fighting to have Gita moved to an elephant sancturary...
...area where the idea of the "two Spains" has little grip. That is due in large part to Spain's abiding ardor for the European Union. "Everybody in Spain agrees that we have to make sure our fiscal and economic policies are in line with Brussels," says Antonio Argandoña, professor of economics at the Barcelona campus of the iese business school. "There's a consensus on these questions to the point that there's no real discussion." Pedro Solbes, Zapatero's Minister of Economics and Finance, established a reputation for fiscal probity both as a Minister in previous...
...Spain's phenomenal building spree is not merely froth. It is grounded in a number of demographic realities: Spain had its baby boom relatively late, from 1965 to 1975, says José Antonio Herce, chief economist of Grupo Analistas, a private consulting firm in Madrid. He attributes the flourishing real estate market in recent years in large part to that population joining the housing market. "We also discovered divorce, which has contributed to a big jump in the number of households," says Herce. "And we've seen the arrival in the last five years alone of some...