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Other ambitious projects are in the works as well, says Hamdun Hameed, Minister of Planning and National Development, pulling out a map of the islands, each one a dot on a ring of reef--an atoll--that traces out the shape of the mountain on which it formed. Here, Hameed notes, is the island of Kandholhudoo, whose residents experienced chronic flooding whenever high tides coincided with heavy monsoon rains. The last straw was the tsunami, which rendered all but eight of some 500 homes uninhabitable. Now, at the request of village leaders, the government is drawing up plans to move...
Unless, that is, you’re at Harvard, where yarmulkes are often traded in for helmets and caps and Chosen People dot the fields and ice the way raisins dot rugelach...
...market in the last few years knows well. What if the market is down when the retiree needs the money in the private account? And what if it stays down? Most individual investors’ portfolios have still not returned to where they to where they were when the dot-com bubble burst five years ago. A system that relies on good luck and bad luck doesn’t provide a true safety...
...referring to supposedly heartfelt “feelings” about things like derivatives (“I feel like the derivative has to do with rate of change”),— the sharing of emotions generated by the proper drawing of a Lewis-dot diagram (“I feel like there’s a double bond between the carbons”), and worst of all, rousing concern with regard to another student’s impressions (“I feel like what he/she said is wrong?...
...MATT MAUPIN--OUR PRAYERS ARE WITH YOU AND YOURS, the big electric sign at Jeff Wyler Auto Mall flashes once a minute. At the top of every hour, the local oldies radio station, WGRR, airs a booming jingle: "Joining you in all our prayers for Matt Maupin." Incongruous messages dot the strip malls along busy Route 32, which bisects Clermont County. PRAY FOR MATT MAUPIN AND FAMILY LARGE CHEESE $5.99, says the sign outside Snappy Tomato Pizza...