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...Kite Hill, Kukchar, the Gorky Park visionary, voiced a similar idea. The problem was the Americans, the Iranians, the Pakistanis - all the foreigners. He takes over the string of one of the kites he has brought. "The string cuts my fingers," he says, preparing to launch, "but I still fly the kite." (See a video about how skateboard culture has come to Kabul...
...colleges, including MIT, which helped open the doors of higher education to millions of people. A year -- a full year before the end of World War II, President Roosevelt signed the GI Bill which helped unleash a wave of strong and broadly shared economic growth. And after the Soviet launch of Sputnik, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth, the United States went about winning the Space Race by investing in science and technology, leading not only to small steps on the moon but also to tremendous economic benefits here on Earth...
...taken. "They took my son to [the Israeli port city of] Ashdod for 24 hours and then released him . . . They said they would send the boat back. They still haven't." The Israeli Defense Forces say Gaza's coastal waters are used for "attempted infiltrations into Israeli territory" to launch terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians and strategic facilities, as well as to smuggle arms...
...effort to inspire physicians to internalize traditional values of medicine, Samuels used an old form of technology—the radio—to launch a program entitled “Inspired...
Crist plans to hold town-hall meetings in 15 Mexican cities beginning January to pull the expat community together and launch a massive letter-writing campaign. He and other proponents are also hoping to engage another key group in the fight, the so-called returnees - Mexican dual citizens, or Mexican-born citizens with legal status in the U.S. who are Medicare-eligible after a lifetime of payroll contributions. In the U.S., proponents will focus on gaining the support of a key member of Congress to carry the banner. Warner says two from Texas are likely targets: Democratic U.S. Representative Eddie...