Word: minis
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...understand how far the LTTE has fallen, consider the situation just three years ago, when an internationally brokered ceasefire collapsed: At that point, the rebels controlled around 5,800 square miles (15,000 sq. km.) of territory in a mini-state in the island nation's north and east. They had a navy composed of a flotilla of gunboats and transports, and even launched daring strikes on Colombo with their own makeshift airforce. But a sustained government offensive has inflicted defeat after defeat, and that, in turn, has prompted widespread desertions. Today, just over 1,000 fighters, including the LTTE...
Losing the Bloom. Flowers not your style? Try the New York Burger Company's "Burger Bouquet," a sample size box of three mini-burgers, homemade potato chips and a brownie for $25. Deliveries go out in the city between 11am...
...economist, Summers has more credibility with Republicans than many other Obama officials do. He did an early stint in the economic back room of the Reagan White House and helped calm the markets during various mini-crises during the go-go 1990s. But Summers has long identified himself as a Democrat and has often leaned toward the left edge of the centrist economic consensus that has driven our recent financial history. "His solutions tend to be government-led, progressive structuring of the market for what he perceives as the greater social good," explains the new Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner...
...Harvard administrators suggest that the three weeks can be used to “encourage individual interests outside the University or provide enhanced educational opportunities such as study abroad, lab experiences, internships, and mini-courses.” But if one goal of the calendar reform was to decrease student stress levels, this is not the way to go about...
...More than that, Masdar City and the WFES as a whole show the triumph of a kind of techno-environmentalism that would be all but unrecognizable to the crunchy nature lovers who once dominated the green movement. A walk through the summit's cavernous exhibition area, where models push mini-wind turbines, reveals booths dedicated to thin-film solar arrays, geothermal pumps and carbon-trading consultancies. There's little about trees or wildlife, nothing about environmental sacrifice - this is about the business of getting the carbon out of our energy supply as quickly as possible. And even in the middle...