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There's a motorcycle-taxi stand near my home in Bangkok, and many of the drivers' hands are dirty. Not from urban grime or motor oil, but from newsprint. Fueled by a growing literacy rate and press reforms in some parts of the continent, Asia is enjoying what may be the world's last great newspaper boom. Eight of the world's 10 biggest paid-for daily newspapers are printed in Asia, according to the World Association of Newspapers (WAN). The largest national newspaper markets? China, India and Japan. (The U.S. is a distant fourth...
...says. "But now it's almost one year." There are about 450 people in this camp, including 39 children under the age of 5. The families live in shelters made of palmyra thatch and corrugated iron, while single folk make do with tents. They are kept behind barbed wire near a road lined with baobab trees and bunkers and are under the constant guard of soldiers. "They are suspected because they come from the Vanni," says an aid official. "They could be LTTE...
...suddenly come to the surface in the spring after warmer temperatures,” he said, “It appears that may have been the case with this individual.” At approximately 1 p.m. Monday, a jogger observed what he believed to be a dead body near Eliot Bridge, which connects Cambridge to Allston. The jogger reported the discovery to Massachusetts State troopers in the Brighton Barracks, who later confirmed the finding. Because the body was found near Allston, the case falls under the jurisdiction of the Suffolk County DA’s office, according to Wark...
Junior goaltender Christina Kessler also did her part in the effort, making several flashy saves throughout the course of UNH’s power play to turn away near-goals. Kessler finished the night with 28 saves...
...doesn't take long for rivulets of perspiration to trickle down Jenkins' face as he discovers the physical demands of the process. "We tried to do this on our own, but it was a joke," says Rick Banks, who, along with neighbors Jenkins and Fowler, raises farm animals near the New Mexico-Texas border as part of a commitment to self-sustainability. In 2007, it took them all day to shear eight sheep and already Fowler knows they can cut that time in half...