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Honorable Men Amendolara offers a tiny blip of hope on the otherwise bleak map of Calabria. Current local leaders have pushed to maximize the town's tourist potential and improve living conditions for residents. Beginning in 2001, Mayor Mario Melfi, a former union leader, implemented a municipal program under the grand slogan: "Amendolara wants to be in Italy, in Europe, in peace." Funded by $3 million a year in local property taxes and $630,000 in revenue from traffic tickets - plus additional grants from Rome and Brussels - the town has offered financial incentives and improved infrastructure to attract private businesses...
...Meanwhile, adding to the sense that this entire industry is in flux, musicians' other means of income - from T-shirt sales to concert tours - are booming. "The whole industry is moving into a new phase," says Mark Mulligan, an analyst at JupiterResearch in London. "This isn't a blip - it's a realignment...
...teen pregnancies in 2006, even as statewide, the same rate dropped two percent. Amid speculation about cultural causes and cuts to health education, the article concedes that there is no explanation for the increase—that, moreover, it may be nothing more than a “blip.” There is no clear evidence that this year’s uptick in teen pregnancy is anything more than an anomaly. However, amid the abstractions of bar charts and regression lines, we forget that each of these cases represents a taxing situation for young mother and child?...
...Chinese deadline for the protestors to surrender at midnight Monday, the organizers of the protests in India have been treading a thin line between hope and despair - protests seem to have calmed down in Tibet and China, but every news of new protests and arrests brings a tiny blip of hope. They're far from ready to give up the protest altogether. Asked if they'd stop the march if asked to do so by the Dalai Lama, Tsewang Rigzin, president of the Tibetan Youth Congress, answered with an emphatic: "No." The schism within Tibetan ranks is set to widen...
...could have a dampening effect on Harvard. The Crimson entered the break having gone 6-0-1 over its last seven ECAC contests, vaulting from mediocrity to the upper levels of the conference tables. Harvard has lost only twice since late January: a 4-2 blip at Brown on Feb. 1 and the overtime defeat, 6-5, to Boston College in the Beanpot championship...