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...beef had risen from $3.25 per pound to over $4 in the course of three months. “Even though it only seems like 80 cents, that stuff adds up really, really quickly—a burger isn’t just the beef. We work on low margin of profit and economies of scale; we rely on selling a lot of sandwiches, so it has a huge impact on us.” Felipe’s owner Tom Brush also noted the extraordinary price spikes of everything from dairy to flour products in the past six months...
...rival Northern Alliance. When the Taliban captured Kabul in 1994, Pakistan was one of only three nations to recognize their government. The Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI), Pakistan's clandestine services, then sent militants hardened in the Soviet war to Indian-administered Kashmir in order to wage a low-level insurgency. They used the Afghan mountains as training grounds and looked the other way when Osama bin Laden made the country a base for his terrorist network. Many Kashmiri militants were trained in his camps as part of the global jihad. As long as there was a sympathetic regime...
...Just-A-Start Corporation, a Cambridge non-profit dedicated to developing and maintaining affordable housing while also arranging education and job training services for low-income residents, is facing substantial cuts to three of its programs—Youthbuild, Mediation for Results, and Biomedical Careers Training...
...Every year, 25 to 30 low-income people get jobs in entry-level biotech, and their income goes up an average of $10,000,” said Alice K. Wolf, a state representative for Cambridge and the chief sponsor for the Biomedical Careers Training program. “It’s a wonderful program and I’m very distressed about [the cuts...
...Xinhua, China's official news agency, reported that the package's spending over the next two years will be aimed at 10 major areas, including "low-income housing, rural infrastructure, water, electricity, transportation, the environment, technological innovation and rebuilding from several disasters, most notably the May 12 earthquake." While the details of exactly when and where the money will be spent were not revealed, Sunday's announcement did make it clear that the government not only aims to boost its spending on infrastructure and projects but also seeks to get notoriously savings-obsessed Chinese consumers - who boast the highest household...