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After protracted negotiations, the Rumsey Band and Yolo County officials reached a tentative accord on the casino expansion. The tribe, which views the deal as a concession, since it is a partial surrender of its sovereignty, agreed to slightly reduce the size of the expansion and pay the county more than $5 million a year for 18 years to deal with traffic, environmental and other problems. But relations remain strained. Bulldozers moved onto the Rumsey reservation and began clearing land even before the county board had approved the agreement...
...rest, the names and rankings of the top 500 scorers are circulated on a list that's released in March and eagerly perused by the math elite--a social register for the aristocracy of arithmetic. "Grading is quite strict," says Professor Richard Stanley, who coaches M.I.T.'s team. Partial credit is rare. Out of 2,954 students who took the test last year, only 50 got 50% or better...
...where 127 hostages held by Chechen terrorists died from a gas used by Russian commandos to disable the terrorists. But the effects are proving to be more serious and lasting than many expected. A number of survivors have checked themselves back into hospitals, complaining of respiratory, kidney, liver and partial-paralysis problems. "Eventually, they will all need very elaborate treatment," says a physician. The government paid each of the victims $3,000 in compensation, but that won't cover the expensive treatments these people will need, this doctor says. "They were never told, and still don't realize, how badly...
...person, Federal Security Service (FSB) officers delivered several crates of an unknown antidote to the theater and asked police to inject the unconscious hostages. But police administered the injections incorrectly, or not at all. Many survivors have since checked themselves back into hospitals, complaining of respiratory, kidney, liver and partial paralysis problems. "Eventually, they will all need very elaborate treatment," says one physician. The government paid victims $3,000 in compensation, but that won't cover the expensive treatments these people will need, according to this doctor. "They were never told, and still don't realize, how badly their health...
...woman summed up her four year-education with the two things Harvard had taught her: how to tell which fork is which and how to schmooze it up at an interview. These, she assured me, would be important life skills, much more crucial than spouting Shakespeare or knowing about partial derivatives. Forget about grade inflation—everyone should graduate summa cum laude in poise, congeniality and schmooze ability: the Faculty of Articulation and Sociability...