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...average Iraqi would now enjoy an annual income of $15,000 and the country's GDP would be close to $400 billion - almost 20 times its current level. Instead, the average Iraqi takes in $800 dollars a year. Industry has ceased to exist and unemployment is optimistically estimated to hover at over 50%. Food is often in short supply with more than 60% of the population dependent on handouts from the oil-for-food program and around 40% of the children suffering from malnutrition. Clean drinking water is becoming rarer and electricity generation cannot even meet the reduced needs...
...their meeting winds down, women hover around the Adams dining hall, nursing cups of tea and chatting, some even flirting. They are first-years and seniors, gay and straight. Some balance on spiky heels and others are nestled in Birkenstocks. They are mostly white. A couple of men comfortably chime...
With her pupil-less eyes, brass breastplate and art-deco winged headpiece, Promethea looks like a combination of Wonder Woman and a 1930s Chrysler hood ornament. Set in a world very like our own, but slightly more technologically advanced - they have hover cars and science villains like "Jellyhead" - Promethea appears when Sophie Bangs, a poetically precocious teenager, channels her from out of the world of imagination. During the first twelve issues Promethea discovers she is the latest in a long line of Prometheas, all of whom materialize through works of an artist. Mixing typical superhero fisticuffs with darker themes...
...Lowell. But was it the natural light in Eliot that made the difference, or the heavy hand of then-University President A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, in deciding House construction plans? Lowell House administrator Elizabeth Terry acknowledges that President Lowell had a “tendency to hover around House constructions and make unilateral decisions” about the design schemes. Whether or not he purposely switched the chandeliers to the House with his namesake, we may never know. Says current Eliot House Master Lino Pertile, “I’m delighted, and not at all surprised...
...Climbing it is another matter. The three-hour hike is strictly for masochists or the blindly devout. The views from the summit, however, redeem the effort. Pony trails snake along mountain ridges, terraced rice paddies tumble down steep slopes, wisps of smoke rise from straw huts, and eagles hover on thermals far below. Those who undertake the climb midweek will, more likely than not, have the summit to themselves. Few experiences can match sitting aloft and alone on Mount Ramelau, enjoying a good Portuguese red with crackers, while watching shards of sunlight pierce the clouds, illuminating the valley below...