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...there's less of an organization"--or it's less detectable. The Iraqi source close to the insurgency says militant groups employ networks of smugglers to take foreign enlistees over the Syrian, Saudi Arabian and Jordanian borders. Afterward the enlistees are ferried through safe houses until they reach a hub city such as Ramadi or Fallujah...
...disorienting to be back in civilization, and Abdi Salan's legs are cramped from the long walk. But he must get his bearings quickly, and make his next move. He has arrived at a smugglers' bazaar: Libya has become - in just the past six months - the most active hub in the people-trafficking trade between Africa and Europe. While authorities in other developing countries such as Albania, Egypt and Tunisia have stepped up border patrols, the Libyan government has turned a blind eye to smugglers. Unable to absorb its own foreign population (in a country of just 5 million, there...
University President Lawrence H. Summers announced in October that SPH, the Graduate School of Education (GSE), a science hub and potentially undergraduate housing are the University’s main “planning assumptions” for its campus of the future...
...slag heaps. Even covered in grass, they're not what you'd call a tourist attraction. Yet approximately 2 million people a year come to this forgettable place - thanks to a revolution in Europe's airline industry. In 2000, Irish discount flyer Ryanair agreed to make an international hub of Charleroi's airport, when the town shaved standard landing charges from €7 to €1 per passenger and provided money for training and marketing. Though few visitors linger long before flying elsewhere or taking the 46-km bus trip north to Brussels, the Ryanair traffic created 1,800 jobs...
...campus hub Dudley House, however, remains an under-utilized resource. Although it offers a range of services and support staff to off-campus students, only 35 of the eligible 155 undergraduates choose to change their House affiliation to Dudley, according to the University Housing Office. Despite these small numbers, Martinez maintains that Dudley meets its aim of creating a community space for off-campus students. Martinez, a graduate of Boston University, commented that she would have loved to have had an institution like Dudley House during her college years off-campus...