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...March 3, 2005, at approximately 2 p.m., an employee of “Fulcrum Association” reported that an unknown suspect removed several cast iron sinks and radiators from 45 Yerxa...
...reality, with the death of Maskhadov, Russia has shot itself in the foot by eliminating a moderate Chechen leader. Although Putin will continue Russia’s tank-to-cockroaches approach, even an iron fist can not squeeze water (or peace) from a rock...
...sucked up by the upper city." He points at a group of skinny girls slapping foamy saris in a puddle. "Those are my 'water rats,' my heroes. They live in dry pipes and crawl to the upper city and steal water." He darts into a narrow alley of corrugated iron shacks. "Here in the lower city is where they make everything for the upper city. No laws, no health and safety, no restrictions on pollution. Total free enterprise." Spying a clutch of new apartment blocks on the horizon, Kapur says the only time the two cities meet in his vision...
...Donald Tsang? Unlike Tung, the Shanghai-born heir to a Hong Kong shipping empire, Tsang does not come from a privileged background. The eldest son of a policeman, Tsang joined the civil service?Hong Kong's iron rice bowl?soon after high school. His diligence and loyalty pleased his British masters, who sent him to Harvard to get a master's in public administration and granted him a knighthood. Tsang acted as a crucial bridge during Hong Kong's handover to China in 1997, and fought off currency speculators during the Asian financial crisis, postcolonial Hong Kong's first...
There's more to tattooing than pinpricks. The first detailed analysis of tattoo inks, presented at the American Chemical Society meeting last week, found copper, iron, lead, lithium, chromium and strontium. Rub-ons, anyone...