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...select Mother Nature. As we have seen this year, in a flash Mother Nature can claim lives, disrupt families, even change the geography of the world. Hurricanes, tornadoes, landslides, earthquakes and wildfires have reawakened our respect for forces greater than ourselves...
...study rooms, wireless internet, and a circulation and reserves desk. The reading room includes a variety of study spaces, including sofa chairs, work spaces, power outlets, and adjustable lighting. The library also has a self-service scanner that allows students to scan documents and save them to a USB flash drive or e-mail them for free. Additional changes include shorter hours, a smaller book collection, and a reduced staff. According to Emily H. Kelly, evening coordinator of the Quad Library, these changes reflect a shift in the library’s focus from only books and research to providing...
Banlieues like Bobigny, Aulnay-sous-Bois and the original flash point of Clichy-sous-Bois make up a tinderbox that few foreigners see and no one in France wants to talk about. The working-class suburbs of Paris are dominated by sterile high-rise public housing, where Arab immigrants from North Africa were shunted when they started arriving in the postcolonial years. Now their children and grandchildren subsist in squalor alongside fresh waves of African and South Asian immigrants and their French-born children. Families struggle to hang on to their dignity, while drug dealers and petty criminals exploit...
...Semlow, loaded with 850 tons of rice, food aid for victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami in Somalia, was cutting its way north at a steady 12 knots, some 55 km from the Somali coast. Then, out of the dark, came a burst of gunfire. "I saw the flash of five to 10 shots," says Mahalingam, 58, a short Sri Lankan man with a gray beard and 20 years' experience on the high seas. "Straight away I knew it must be pirates...
...warm reception at the meeting of leaders last night. Or that the meeting went much longer than anyone had planned, making a president famous for going to bed at 9 stay up close to midnight. At dinner some of his aides groaned when they saw the delays flash on their BlackBerrys. "They've only gotten to the appetizers," said one at 10 p.m., distressed about the long delay. Still, it would be mistake to dismiss the summit or to think that the region has backslid to the days when extremist politics dominated...