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...semipublic property company NV Stadsgoed for $37 million. Officials immediately closed down the buildings' 51 brothel windows, and installed in 16 of them young fashion designers, who pay a token monthly rent of $220. That's just one small piece of a much more ambitious cleanup initiative. A wall map in City Hall shows a block-by-block plan that aims to halve the size of the red-light district over the next few years by shutting scores of brothels, according to Deputy Mayor Lodewijk Asscher, who has spearheaded the campaign. "People think just because the windows are transparent that...
...school year draws near, the College’s new leadership is working to reorganize its administrative structure to map more closely with that of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds said this week...
...with oxygen levels so low that marine life can barely survive--has doubled every 10 years since the 1960s as a result of a runoff polluted with nitrogen-rich crop fertilizer. There are now more than 400 such zones--from the Gulf of Mexico to the Black Sea (see map above)--which, the report's authors say, pose as great a threat to coastal ecosystems as overfishing and habitat loss...
...Paris. "Once the shock of these deaths eases, people won't ask whether we can stand the losses - we obviously can. Nor will it be whether this is a legitimate and important war for global stability - it is. Debate will focus on how we get down to business and map out a way to beat an enemy that is very clearly getting stronger...
...Australians, in the first half at least, might have given the remaining teams in the tournament (Spain, Lithuania and the defending champs Argentina, who beat the U.S. in the semifinals in Athens, and meet them at the same stage this Friday) at least part of a road map for how to compete against the "Redeem Team." On offense, "we didn't try to beat them off the dribble," said point guard Mills. They passed and cut to the hoop with precision and shot well from behind the three point arc. Nor did they ever allow the U.S. to turn...