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...Lockerbie victims may not see all the money called for under the agreement. U.S. sanctions on Libya remain in force, and the country is still on the State Department's list of state sponsors of terrorism. Those two restrictions must be lifted before the families of the victims can collect an additional $5 million apiece, according to an agreement they negotiated separately with Tripoli. But there are no signs the U.S. is about to relent. A senior U.S. official tells TIME that Washington still has grave concerns about Gaddafi's illicit nuclear-weapons program--and what the official calls...
...director of the company's branch in Leiden, brewed the Coffee Savings Account as a way to support coffee farmers in developing countries, staying true to the company's agricultural-banking roots. Customers have to put away a minimum of about $1,000 for a three-year term to collect the annual interest of 12 bags of coffee, each of which contains 250 grams, about 8.8 ounces. That roughly amounts to a 4% return, says the bank, which beats the 3% yield on standard savings accounts. The downside: you're locked into that rate for three years. The coffee option...
...Pekar: First of all I was familiar with them from reading them as a kid. I was familiar with the form. I used to collect them like a madman when I was an elementary school kid. But I got sick of them. I just thought they got predictable after a while, the stuff I was reading - the superhero stuff. So I just thought there was something limited about the medium itself. You could only do so much with it. I think a lot of people think that about comics. I sort of kept an eye open. I liked "Mad" comics...
...Green-span said his intent in creating houseSYSTEM was not to collect personal information but to provide an important service...
...only guiding idea here is to improve student life,” he said. “It’s not to collect people’s passwords. It’s not to abuse information for some evil purpose. It’s for students to benefit, whatever those pieces of information might be, whether it’s getting a job or your e-mail or your packages. It’s all things we’re trying to centralize in a way that FAS should but does...