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...parents at Johnston Gate today, there will be discussions of roommates, concentrations, new experiences, and a variety of other subjects, almost all of which, ironically, will have the backdrop of delicious and unhealthy off-campus dinners. Parental love too often crowds out honesty, and the extra pounds accumulated since August probably find a place in the dialogue. The “freshman fifteen” is accepted as part of the quintessential college experience. Everyone is aware of the dangers of abrupt weight gain during freshman year, and many students, as they visited colleges as prefroshes, probably even judged current...
...here have their hopes set on being the next JFK than being the next Mick Jagger, but Carbone’s ambition still burns. It helps to have the right fuel. Called and Careless’s singer, Evan Gentler, 26, graduated college and came to Boston in August of 2003. Already aware that music was his passion, he placed an ad in The Boston Phoenix, played with a few different people, and tried out for a number of bands. After Carbone read Gentler’s ad in the Phoenix, they arranged to meet at Au Bon Pain...
...local identity card. In particular, Senegalese truck drivers and traders have long cut through Gambia to get to the south of their own country, because the ferry route lops more than 500 km off the trip from the capital of Dakar. The shortcut was abruptly closed in mid-August after Gambia doubled ferry charges. "The Gambians just woke up one day and increased the price of crossing," says Kebba Fall, a money changer in the Senegalese border town of Keur Ayib. "It's too expensive. We cannot take it." When Senegalese truckers complained, border police blocked Gambian-registered vehicles from...
...assassination last February of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri--and specifically fingered Maher Assad and Shawkat as playing leading roles in the violent conspiracy. The report, by German prosecutor Detlev Mehlis, reconstructs the events that it says led up to the car-bomb murder of Hariri, including the August 2004 meeting in Damascus during which Bashar Assad threatened the billionaire Lebanese politician if he got in the way of Syria's domination of Lebanon...
...called Flex. The cars work like traditional vehicles but can run on either gasoline or ethanol derived from sugar cane--a commodity in abundance in Brazil. Volkswagen, Ford, Fiat and GM all produce Flex lines. In May sales of Flex vehicles overtook gasoline models for the first time. By August, Flex sales had risen 61.7%. "I am hard pressed to think of any other technology that has been such a success so quickly," says Barry Engle, president of Ford Brasil...