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...Despite its imperfections, coaches seem to prefer this method of recruiting over simply offering a sum of money...
...faced by soaring unemployment and an accompanying rise in poverty, Beijing is scrambling to put in place measures that will ease the pain for the newly impoverished. Some 16 billion dollars has been budgeted by the central government for health and education in the coming years, and its chosen method of distributing the money is often those same village committees. "The push is on for rural community development centers that include such things as health care clinics, deciding who qualifies for government relief, conflict resolution centers, libraries, even sometimes a small supermarket," says Liu. "This anticipates the return...
...long after Abu Zubaydah and Mohammed had been subjected to the method that the Obama Administration regards as a form of turture - the Agency was giving the OLC a clearer picture. According to two OLC memos in May of that year by Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Steven Bradbury, the Agency had informed the lawyers the waterboarding technique was being used on a detainee on a maximum of five days during a single 30-day period. On each day, there could only be two "sessions," in which the detainee was strapped to an inclined bench, a cloth placed over...
...Meanwhile, a flurry of polls find the once popular Royal now badly trailing most Socialist Party leaders as the best person to take Sarkozy on for the presidency in 2012. But that, French political analysts agree, is precisely why Royal has chosen such an explosive method of reacting to Sarkozy. Sure, the immediate fall-out may earn her criticism from fellow pols and the public alike - but the alternative would be to do nothing for the next three years, and risk people forgetting that she and her presidential ambitions exist...
...Compared to the interstate highway system and the massive network of domestic airlines, high-speed rail is more energy-efficient and less costly per mile and provides an easy, efficient, and safe method of transportation. As such, we believe that a new national program of high-speed rail construction will be a worthwhile investment in infrastructure and job creation in the midst of the worst recession in more than two decades. In addition to the immediate benefits of job creation in the construction industry, the expansion of passenger rail travel will also provide jobs far into the future across...