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...anyway, but not until it had been properly fattened up in the breeding factory where Long, then 12, was required to work in the waning days of China's Cultural Revolution. The ducks were force-fed through a tube operated by a foot-pedal - a single pump per meal. One day Long got careless and accidentally pumped twice. End of duck...
Dubai officials insist that they can meet their debt obligations for the next two years. But the credit squeeze clearly compounds some growing challenges to Dubai's revenue streams. The most obvious of these is the plummeting price of oil, from $147 to less than $65 per bbl. since July, rendering regional investors increasingly cautious as they dial down their expectations of untold wealth. And a global recession is likely to tighten the belts of the foreign investors and vacationers who have driven demand for Dubai's real estate and tourism developments...
...statute in question—The Digital Theft Deterrence and Copyright Damages Improvement Act of 1999—penalizes copyright violators up to $150,000 per willful infringement...
...said ITS support staff member Fegens Alexis. Brainard said that the pilot program was set up in order to work out the details of the service on a smaller scale before making it available in other libraries. The price of printing, for example, was listed online at seven cents per page for the last week. But when librarians were notified that it costs five cents per page to print at the Science Center, the price of printing in Lamont was also lowered to five cents. “This is why we pilot programs like this before we roll them...
...corruption scandals connected to drug cartels. On Friday, the head of the Federal Preventive Police resigned after detectives questioned him for two days about links to the Sinaloa cartel. Four days earlier, police had announced the arrest of five senior prosecutors for taking bribes of up to $450,000 per month from drug traffickers. Among information leaked to the cartels had been details of U.S. Drug Enforcement agents working in Mexico, officials alleged. The U.S. government has continually expressed support for Calderón's fight against drug cartels, and Congress has voted to support that battle with some...