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...lights snap off at the Empire Theatre on Times Square and a piercing chorus of girls' squeals instantly fills the room, zero to sixty in a half-second, like audio-electroshock therapy or the first jolt of Beatlemania. It's a release of energy the Disney marketeers have savvily built up since High School Musical made its debut on the Disney Channel in Jan. 2006. The TV movie broke ratings records, and so did its spinoff CD, which was the year's top-selling album in the U.S. Last year's High School Musical 2, also on the Disney Channel...
...Just outside the town is a state-of-the-art coal-fired power plant built by the German utility Steag, which alone provides about 5% of Turkey's electricity. When it started operations in 2003, the $1.5 billion plant was the biggest single foreign investment in the country. In nearby Isdemir, a giant steel mill built in the 1970s by Russian engineers using Soviet technology is undergoing massive renovation. Some 18,000 workers used to produce just over 2 million tons of steel here; now about 6,000 people produce almost three times as much - and the plant consumes less...
...modern” design, Lesley held a number of meetings with residents—including seven in one month—and ultimately asked its architects to redraw the buildings to assuage the community’s concerns.The result is just what the neighbors wanted: a second residence hall, built in Victorian style, in place of the Wendell Street parking lot, as well as retail space on the ground floor of the Mass Ave building.NEIGHBORHOOD BUY-INWhen Harvard began laying plans to build graduate student housing in the Riverside community several years ago, it stoked a great deal of hostility...
...much. “To be quite frank,” she shouted, striking up an inappropriately academic tone for the setting at hand, “I absolutely adore Harvard’s quaint, collegiate, neo-Georgian architecture and its professorial staff. But an institution is built from its student body and it is the stellar intellectual manpower our students which I love.” The corner of my eye spied one prospective member of ’13 scribble “stellar intellectual manpower” onto her legal pad. But if there?...
...fiercest battles inside Pakistan since 9/11. Pakistan's army bosses say they have killed more than 1,200 militants, including foreign fighters from the Middle East and Central Asia. The militants, who are armed with Kalashnikovs, sniper rifles and rocket-propelled grenades, and who have built sophisticated defenses from which to fight, have destroyed at least one Pakistani tank and killed dozens. Pakistani soldiers. Local tribesmen, who have long resented the presence of foreign militants in the region, have formed their own militias to take up the fight. "This is a war which we are fighting," says Rehman Malik...