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Sommer Hollingsworth, president of the Nevada Development Authority, which works to attract employers to southern Nevada, observed that of about 350 firms his group sought to recruit over the past year, "we've never had anyone ask about the nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, but client after client wants to know what we are going to do about the doctor situation. The quality of the medical system plays a big role for companies choosing to relocate...
...University of Pristina. "This region is still easy prey for terrorist activities." Some U.S. troops will likely remain in Kosovo for a few more years. The province is "still a big issue" for us, says a senior U.S. State Department official. And the region will continue to attract veteran U.S. diplomats capable of navigating its byzantine political byways. "The U.S. withdrawal will be very gradual," says one. "It will not jeopardize regional stability." Local leaders are praying that he is right...
...with the mainstream parties' bid to anchor their electoral support elsewhere in Spain than with finding a solution to the Basque conflict. The goal of Aznar's ruling Popular Party is "to defeat ETA," according its leader in the Basque country, Jaime Mayor Oreja. That message may attract voters elsewhere in Spain, but in the Basque Country, the citizenry's main desire is a peaceful resolution of the conflict. Last May, the Catholic bishops of the Basque archdioceses published a letter calling for a negotiated solution to the conflict. The Bishops were vehemently criticized by the Spanish Government, but their...
...troika of seventysomething gospel war-horses works '60s, '70s and '80s R. and B. into its repertoire. Sounds like a scheme contrived to attract boomers who want to tell their friends they like old Southern musicians but who don't actually want to listen to an album of old Southern songs. But the Blind Boys freshen up classics like the Impressions' People Get Ready, masterfully riffing off of familiar melodies. They don't nail every song--their take on Prince's The Cross is stiff--but their honey-and-gravel voices are never predictable. They're always hunting...
Life is slow in the northeastern state of Terengganu and that is exactly what visitors like about it. The long stretches of unspoiled beach along its 255-kilometer coast, the coral reefs and even the odd sea turtle attract more than 1.4 million tourists each year, including 150,000 foreigners...