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...levy taxes and passing state-income-tax exemptions for manufacturers who set up plants to process some of the 23 million tons of raw materials--such as rubber, steel and coffee beans--that move through New Orleans ports each year. Nagin is also talking up initiatives like a biomedical corridor to lure firms that will leverage the research done at local hospitals and universities...
...insurgents who notched a new level of deadliness last week. The worst fighting is taking place in western Iraq, where U.S. forces are trying to disrupt Sunni guerrilla operations and destroy training camps used by foreign and Iraqi terrorists. Haditha sits on the Euphrates along a corridor of lush green hills and ravines that U.S. officers say has become a vital ratline for jihadist recruits crossing from Syria and a rest-and-recoup zone for fighters from the violent Sunni triangle. Patrolling on foot and in convoy, Marines have the job of flushing the rebels...
...organizer works with grass-roots outfits to boost the local economy in countries like India and Sri Lanka. In China it supports the Nature Conservancy by training locals to be Yangtze River guides. Other Ways To Help Join Country Walkers' tree-planting project in Costa Rica to create a corridor for mono titi monkeys Improve health conditions in remote regions with Medicines Global by packing extra first-aid kits To offset the CO2 emissions released during your travels, go to treesftf.org and purchase CO2-consuming trees ($1 will offset a round-trip domestic flight, $3 an international...
When visitors arrive to see Condoleezza Rice on the seventh floor of the State Department, they are seated down the corridor from Rice's office, in a drawing room decorated with patterned carpets, Georgian furniture and a grandfather clock. Above one sofa hangs a framed, four-page document, typewritten and signed with the initials "GM." It is the original copy of the most famous speech ever made by a U.S. Secretary of State: George Marshall's commencement address at Harvard in 1947, the speech that led to the passage of the European Recovery Act, later known as the Marshall Plan...
Some time later, love at first sight struck me again. I looked up from my desk one day and saw a smashing redhead coming down the corridor. "Oh, boy, is she pretty!" I said to myself. "I've got to meet...