Word: luring
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...militants are using sympathetic mosques in Talibanistan to recruit fighters to attack Western troops in Afghanistan, according to tribal elders in the region. With cash and religious fervor, they lure young men to join their battle and threaten local leaders so they will deliver the support of their tribes. Malik Haji Awar Khan, 55, head of the 2,000-strong Mutakhel Wazir tribe of North Waziristan, was approached a year ago to join the Taliban cause. When he refused, militants kidnapped his teenage sons. "They thought they could make me join them, but I am tired of fighting," says Khan...
...effort to lure its physicians away from primary care and toward students, the University is giving them a raise. Harvard’s doctors, who now make as little as $30 per hour of teaching, will be paid $100 an hour starting July 1. The move to increase funding for academic instruction reflects a push to make teaching as lucrative for doctors as treating patients, coming as Harvard Medical School revamps its curriculum to stress more faculty-student interaction. The funding, which will increase from $8 million to $16 million, will be contributed mostly by Harvard University and Harvard Medical...
...gaming into a thriving social community. But for the more than 100 gamers who attended the event (myself included), lasting bonds of friendship that would drag gamers away from their computers were nowhere to be found. Instead, the surprisingly large number of gamers was merely indicative of the lure that gaming has over so many college students, most of who have likely been active gamers for many years...
...year, Ergas launched Atmosphere, a $20 million, custom-built, 28-passenger ship, with which he plans to merge the family tradition of making money with his love of fly fishing in the isolated fjords of Chilean Patagonia. Charging fly fisherman $15,000 a week and ecotourists $10,000, Ergas' lure is the chance to travel in style to the end of the earth - and leave no trace. Onboard, it's like a trendy Scandinavian penthouse: white floors, outdoor jacuzzis, ambient grooves trickling through iTunes. The staff of 33 read like a Who's Who of Chilean military and academia...
...Allston is to become integrated with the rest of the campus, it needs some draw to lure River House residents over the bridge. The student center would play that role. It should be located immediately over the bridge (see map below) where it could close as possible to the existing River Houses and adjacent to the new Allston ones. Provided that the new center is modern, operational, and sufficiently spacious—which it should be, given the amount of money Harvard is poised to spend in Allston—it will become a hub of student activity...