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...Paul is at least inchoately aware that he has inner resources. Surely he is ordained, by the dictates of movie comedy, to win the girl, take revenge on his detractor, thwart a major crime and become a hero. When Veck, a new security guard (Keir O'Donnell), turns out to be the head of a gang that takes Amy and his daughter (Raini Rodriguez) hostage during a mall robbery, Paul proves his mettle, outwitting Veck and overcoming the gang lord's parkouring minions...
Eventually, the Indian coast guard picked up the surviving refugees and immediately noticed their abject state. The coast guard's report stated that there was a significant amount of water flooding the barge; Indian ships reportedly attempted to search for the 300 missing but were able to rescue only nine refugees from the sea. The survivors have been fed and given medical treatment. They are being housed in relief camps, where they were reached by phone calls from the Arakan Project as well as a reporter from the BBC. The Thai government has yet to return TIME's calls...
...funds will be split among nine areas for which Oberstar is responsible: highways and bridges, transit, rail, aviation, environmental infrastructure, Army Corps of Engineers, brownfields, federal buildings, and Coast Guard and maritime administration. All the money will go to projects that are shovel-ready - meaning they've completed their environmental-impact studies, the engineering and design plans have been approved and certified, and in the case of roads, the rights of way have been acquired. The projects are all outside the regular transportation process. Most transportation infrastructure is financed through a formula - usually an 80%-20% split between the federal...
...pleaded with the country to maintain the focus. "America did nothing to seek or deserve this conflict," he said. "But we have been given solemn responsibilities, and we must meet them. We must resist complacency. We must keep our resolve. And we must never let down our guard...
...Still, the danger deters few travelers. On a balmy afternoon just before Christmas, Manila resident Maristella Cempron waited patiently for her SuperFerry at Manila's crowded South Harbor. It was just a week after the MB Mae Jan accident. The 27-year-old security guard admitted to "having some jitters." But she wanted to return to her family for the holidays. "I'll take the risk," Cempron says. Bautista, the transport undersecretary, sums up the problem: "The main issue here is the safety culture of the Philippines," she says. "We have very, very low regard for safety...