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...resistance to muses. They want something tangible: she answers the phone; she's the human-resources manager," says Brooks. But despite her job's intangibility, Brooks takes her responsibility at Tuleh very seriously. Kind of. A mother of two, she goes into the Tuleh offices, which are half a block from her apartment, three times a week if she feels like it. "It's my job to spread love to the seamstress, the financial guy. And if I'm not in a good mood, I won't go," she says. "In order to be original, you have to listen...
...border in the Iranian town of Marivan. Iranians there do a busy trade producing fake identity cards for Ansar fighters for their return to Iraq across the 5,000-foot mountains. With overburdened Iraqi border patrols guarding a 1,000-mile frontier, Ansar's return is almost impossible to block, and Kurdish guards expect little help from Iranian officials in stopping the infiltration...
...Infosystems, raised salaries but cut meal subsidies by the same amount, according to one of the strike's organizers. China's detractors still have powerful weapons at their disposal. Before agreeing to allow China into the World Trade Organization, Washington negotiated a deal giving it broad powers to block Chinese products that "surge" into the market - no proof of dumping required. As U.S. elections draw near, pressure to use those powers could come from people like Doug Bartlett. His father started Bartlett Manufacturing, a circuit boardmaker in Cary, Illinois, in 1952. By 2000, the family business had $22 million...
...imagine anything so horrific.? Of the 50 devils the team has found in five days, 14 have shown clear signs of DFTD - perhaps a sign that the disease is only just moving into the area. These animals will almost certainly die within months, some starving to death as tumors block their mouth or throat. Autopsies on other devils have found their internal organs riddled with tumors. The disease, confined so far to the state?s eastern half, is believed to have cut the animals? population to about 70,000 from a peak of 150,000 in the early 1990s...
Eight schools would need to approve any new members, both at the athletic director and Policy Committee levels. If Vermont does, in fact, abstain from voting, that means it will take only three dissenting votes—half of the Ivy hockey institutions, in other words—to block a school’s entry...