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...water has returned to its normal milky jade hue. Even some of the gashes caused by landslides have begun to green over as nature struggles to match man's furious pace of recovery. The reconstruction campaign following the May 12 earthquake, which killed 87,000 people and left 10 million homeless, rates as one of China's most astonishing endeavors. Even for a country that likes to think big, the numbers are staggering: over the next three years, Beijing has pledged to spend $176 billion on rebuilding, roughly $50 billion more than the U.S. has devoted to post-Katrina work...
...harbor capital of Lesbos, is repeated nightly in Greece's Aegean waters, where a gaping new hole has opened in the border between Europe and poorer, war-torn corners of Asia and the Middle East. As growing numbers of people flee Iraq, Afghanistan and the Caucasus, human traffickers have begun using the route from the southwest coast of Turkey to several eastern Greek islands as a back door to European territory, adding it to more familiar passages from North Africa to Sicily, Lampedusa, Malta and the Canary Islands. The number of illegal immigrants arriving in Greece has surged over...
...water has returned to its normal milky jade hue. Even some of the gashes caused by landslides have begun to green over as nature struggles to match man's furious pace of recovery. The reconstruction campaign following the May 12 earthquake, which killed 87,000 people and left 10 million homeless, rates as one of China's most astonishing endeavors. Even for a country that likes to think big, the numbers are staggering: Beijing has pledged to spend $176 billion on rebuilding over the next three years. By early July, three-quarters of the Sichuan homeless had been moved into...
...nothing bad you can say about him,” Knapp adds. “He’s the ideal captain and teammate.”While such support from those who know him best already reflects well on the senior standout, Caputo has also begun to enjoy recognition at the national level.On Nov. 24th, all eyes will be on the talented grappler, as he travels to Columbus, Ohio for the 43rd NWCA All-Star Classic. As only the second Harvard grappler to ever compete in the event, Caputo will challenge No. 3 Phil Keddy of Iowa...
...piracy has grown, so have the ambitions of the pirates, who have begun to home in on tankers and bigger cargo vessels in the hopes of fetching larger ransom payments. Usually, a Somali pirate attack involves two or three speedboats, each carrying up to five armed men, but NATO officials say the number of boats involved is going up, suggesting that the pirates are getting more men and equipment...