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...Branson and Governor Bill Richardson signed a deal under which the legislature would put up $140 million if two of the three counties adjoining the spaceport also contributed. Dona Ana and Sierra counties agreed and so far have raised $58 million for the project. Voters in the third county narrowly rejected the idea last November...
Eighteen months since the IG report, USAID has also not adequately accounted for $16 million in project spending and has hired an outside auditor to track the money, according to Dona Dinkler, the USAID IG's chief of staff. USAID declined to comment, but it has blamed high staff turnover - four different USAID employees oversaw the project successively - and security concerns, which severely limited the number of hands-on visits to the remote Sindh and Baluchistan provinces, where the project was meant to have its greatest impact. "In that case, you have to find other ways to provide oversight...
...Church leaders, whose humanitarian efforts were boosted by donations from around the country, are now running low on funds and supplies. "I just wish they would help these immigrants so they could work here easily," says Dona Peck, 67, a local volunteer who was helping people stock up last week. "They're needed. A lot of them are just nice family people...
...style, in a chauffeur-driven, mint-green-and-chrome '50s-style car. The Havana Transport Company is typical of the city's fast-growing entrepreneurialism - it's owned by a South African who has emigrated to Mozambique. For $50 an hour, Jaime Sumbane with his Panama hat and Dona Flor cigar will take you on a tour of the city. Driving through Maputo, the potholes are still there, even outside Nelson Mandela and Graça Machel's house, but foreign investment, most notably from the Chinese government, which sent the funds - and the prisoners - to build a new Ministry...
...Zigzag Way (Houghton Mifflin; 159 pages), the connoisseur of displacement takes her sharp eye to Mexico, though all her main characters, as always, come from somewhere else. Eric, a mousy innocent abroad, has followed his grad-school girlfriend across the border and there runs into a fellow refugee, Dona Vera, who presides over a salon of sorts called the Hacienda de la Soledad, concealing her European past behind flamboyant displays of Indian folklore. In the third panel of the narrative's triptych, we travel back to 1910, when the British came to the area to exploit its mines and miners...