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...Tuesday the Senate voted to continue distributing a significant portion of security dollars equally among the states, rather than by likelihood of attack. [That's] good news for smaller states like Wyoming, which only has one high-risk target--the popular tourist attraction, the world's largest pile of homeland-security money...
...undeniable is that Hindu priests have turned parts of the Buddhist holy site into shrines to their own gods. A day's drive away, Nalanda University, the wellspring from which ideas of Nirvana and reincarnation washed across the world from the 5th to 12th centuries, is nowadays a forgotten pile of bricks and weeds. Faced with this overwhelming array of neglected treasures, Thakur concedes: "Sometimes it's all so depressing, I don't even want to think about...
...seagull in sight. Across the road at the Helliniko Olympic Complex, venues for another seven sports - baseball, basketball, canoeing and kayaking, fencing, handball, hockey and softball - gather dust. Posses of stray dogs roam across the expanses of untended grounds, loose electrical cables hang over dented fences and garbage mounds pile up behind chained gates. Greece's military is keeping watch over some of the 22 venues - including the main Olympic stadium - for which the state is trying to find a permanent use. Maintenance and upkeep are estimated at about $100 million a year. "Who knows what they're planning...
...banks generally grew healthier in 1985 as they emerged from a two-year crisis of confidence among investors and depositors. Some other U.S. banks, though, had a tumultuous year. More than 115 failed during 1985, the highest number since the Great Depression. Most were small ones buried under a pile of failed farm loans...
From this unappealing premise Author Patrick Süskind, 37, spins a tale as energetic and engaging as it is improbable. Immediately after giving birth, an unwed mother dumps her unwanted infant into a pile of fish offal, amid the "fiendish stench" of the nearby Cimetière des Innocents in Paris. Unfortunately, the baby's screams attract the attention of the police. They arrest the mother and hand her progeny over to church authorities, who baptize him Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. The tyke's wet nurses keep quitting. He drinks too greedily, they complain, and there is something else truly spooky about...