Word: bays
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...prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is an ever more embarrassing problem for President Barack Obama. Once a powerful campaign line, the idea of closing the prison is now such a source of heated political debate on Capitol Hill and such a complex legal challenge that the Administration is unlikely to meet its self-imposed deadline of shutting the place down by late January 2010. (See pictures of a jihadist's journey...
...pictures from inside Guantánamo Bay's detention facilities...
...against Penn’s Bryant Williams in extra holes. After Williams birdied the second extra hole, Wentzell and the rest of the Harvard squad were relegated to the consolation match against Columbia—which was eventually rained out—at the Ivy Match Play tournament at Bay Club in Mattapoisett, Mass...
...quake than with the strength of building codes and emergency-response plans. In the years since the 1989 quake, California has reinforced building codes, especially for public structures like schools and hospitals, while the state government has spent billions to improve the reliability of highways, bridges and roads. The Bay Bridge - which partly collapsed in 1989 - is being remade to handle the largest plausible earthquake expected to occur over a 1,500-year period. "We're in much better shape for emergency response," says Jones. (Read "How Disaster-Ready...
...March 15 - and only to prevent "very big and serious snow" from falling on the city, said Andrei Tsybin, head of the department. This could mean that a few flakes will manage to slip through the cracks. Tsybin estimated that the total cost of keeping the storms at bay would be $6 million this winter, roughly half the amount Moscow normally spends to clear the streets of snow...