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...Meanwhile, the religious balance of Beirut is shifting. Neighborhoods in the swish Christian side of the city have become Gucci ghost towns as their owners head for summer homes in the hills. In Muslim West Beirut, the streets are doubled parked with out-of-town cars, and there are more hijabs than high heels on Hamra street...
While stressing that residents should arrange for their own evacuation, Nagin has promised that buses and trains would take those without transportation, as well as the elderly and people with special medical needs, to out-of-town shelters before a storm hits. The state, which has responsibility for transportation, has already contracted with private coach companies and school districts for an unknown number of buses. State help is key since the Regional Transit Authority, which runs public transportation in New Orleans, has only about 100 operating buses that survived Katrina. A new system of processing evacuees at two locations...
...lost $500 million worth of telecom structure--fiber-optic and copper wire--leaving the city's emergency-operations center at city hall with a superfast T1 line as useless as a set of tin cans. Deputy mayor Meffert ended up handing out Nextel walkie-talkies for all the out-of-town help and cobbling together a voice-over-Internet communications system out of old computers, which still serves the city...
...despair. You can find many an excellent dinner for less than $40. And your transportation budget, except for getting from the Nice airport to Cannes and back, is exactly zero. Every hotel is within walking distance from every screening and nearly every party. For the rare out-of-town soiree, you ride with the other press types in a chartered...
...Sampson said.FAS administrators have also tightened departments’ unrestricted budgets, asking chairs to use funds that were “restricted” for specific purposes by their original donors. As a result, some departments have trimmed their programs for students, guest lecturers, and trips to out-of-town conferences.“We are talking about small amounts of money, but major reduction of the comfort level and demoralization,” P. Oktor Skjaervo, the chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, wrote in an e-mail.And the Gunzburg Center for European Studies...