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...with society.” Hall, like Williams, said she too faced extreme culture-shock. “I didn’t know where to live and how to get a job,” Hall said. “I didn’t know how to iron, how to use a microwave, how to pay bills, and how to budget.” The women also shared their experiences in prison. “I was a criminal, and I used to be proud of it,” Williams said of her past...
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...ambulance to a hospital. Then a rumor broke out that another informer had escaped into a neighboring four-story building. The crowd surrounded the building, and demanded that the owner open up. The owner shouted back that the informer had gone, but the crowd did not believe him. Bricks, iron rods, and stones started flying towards the second floor of the building, which houses a coaching center called "Bright Future Institute"; women began shrieking from inside. The windows were smashed, one by one. The owner came up on the roof and flew a red flag to show that...
...other hand, Fell notes that Sling technology could "effectively mean that more eyeballs see the program, which is good, and gives advertisers more opportunity." Attorney Dan Harrington, a partner with the London sports and business rights firm Couchman Harrington Associates, believes that broadcasters and rights holders will iron out the difficulties. "As with any new technology, the market might initially be shocked before the business models adapt to find the solutions we need to deal with the changes," says Harrington. Indeed, Krikorian hopes that rights owners and broadcasters will soon strike deals with Sling Media that increase the chance that...
...handy. Prices start at $95,200 - excluding crane time. THE PAD www.padlife.co.uk A London team aims to make cost overruns and missed construction deadlines obsolete. Their 100- to 200-sq-m Pad P-4 goes up in days, and plugs into a central core mounted on a precast iron foundation. Prices start at $129,000, with first units available in September. YOUMEHESHE www.youmeheshe.com A "small but tall" house with a difference, this four-story design is London-based Youmeheshe's answer to a British-government challenge to architects to design a $104,000 house. The result is an eye-catching...