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...money from a $25 billion modernization fund set up earlier this year, but environmentalists are adamantly opposed to such a move. And as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office pointed out, the companies factored in using at least $21 billion of those funds to get back on their feet in plans they submitted Tuesday to Congress...
...several days, wintry rains, pushy winds and high tides combined to inundate much of Venice's scarce solid ground. At one point, the sea level was more than five feet higher than normal; water sloshed into every part of the city. The Piazza San Marco was submerged, as were all embankments. Venice barely had time to haul out the wooden planks it sets up to help pedestrians navigate flooding. Sometimes only yellow do not cross tape separated pavement from canal...
...drawdown gathers speed, it will diminish the U.S.'s ability to influence Iraqi affairs. "Very soon, we will no longer have foreigners to blame for our problems--or to solve them," says Amar Fayyad, a political scientist at Baghdad University. "Iraq will be walking on its own feet...
...Thanksgiving through spring break, she traveled to Europe to audition for ballet companies. Having now joined the ZBC ranks, she faces the struggles that come with the position. “So far the experience has been frankly brutal and somewhat like fighting a war on several fronts...my feet look like raw hamburger...at the end my brain felt like cooked hamburger,” says Moore. Processed beef metaphors aside, she toured with the company in Shanghai. In retrospect, says Moore, “Sacrificing my feet has been worth it.” For some students, globe...
...Piper usually begins breezily, probably adjusting his pretentiously circular hipster spectacles. “Harvard girls think they’re the shit and she’s definitely just waiting around for some law school student to swipe her off her feet one night at Om.” “But she knows me,” his soft-spoken and probably much less alt friend Ben J. Gleeson ’10 typically adds, “We’ve known each other since our freshman seminar.” (He often adds...