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What are you doing here?” a woman had asked them weeks earlier, when they visited the country’s poorest town, an Indian reservation in South Dakota with a monument to the Battle at Wounded Knee. “We’re here to pay our respects,” they said...
...town is seeing a real estate boom, roads are markedly better than anywhere around and children go to well-maintained schools. Kushinagar is where the Buddha died, and pilgrims come to see the gilded statue that commemorates the spot where the Buddha attained nirvana as well as a brick monument built in the field where he was cremated. "The only improvement we have seen here is because of the monasteries and the Buddhists," says Laldhar Yadav, who owns a cloth shop...
...This week the first anniversary of the crisis will be formally marked with speeches and ceremonies in the old school gymnasium. A monument, which locals say will include a gold-painted structure said to depict a tree of life, will be unveiled at the cemetery where most casualties are buried. Next week, two new schools will open, one with tennis courts and the other with a pool. After a year of near-total silence, Putin has said he will meet a vociferously critical group of mothers who lost children in the tragedy...
...says. But he also says that her career has been hurt by the disclosure of her identity. ?There's a whole part of her career that she can no longer do,? says Wilson as he smokes a cigar on his back porch, with a view of the Washington Monument and planes coming down the Potomac River on final approach to Reagan National Airport. ?Professionally, obviously she can't work with the same amount of discretion she was able to work in before,? he adds. ?It would be very difficult for her to do overseas assignments...
...monument to Murphy's Law, the great white Batmobile that will be piloted by Astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen is already two years behind its timetable and $3.6 billion over budget. Only a year ago workmen had diagnosed the ship's ailment as "smallpox," a reference to the holes left in its outer shell when heat-dissipating tiles became unglued. At one time or another, the entire project became unglued. Perhaps it was prophetic that the task force proposing the space shuttle back in 1969 was headed by Vice President Spiro Agnew. In any case, Columbia offers...