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...covert detention centers in Thailand and Guantánamo Bay, which are no longer operating, and that the agency continues to run similar facilities in Afghanistan and Eastern Europe. In Afghanistan, the agency's prison was once located in an old brick factory near Kabul's airport, nicknamed the Salt Pit by the CIA and the Darkness Prison by inmates. Detainees who have escaped or been released from the prison claim they were kept in cold, dark cells underground, fed once every three days and sometimes chained wet and naked to the wall overnight...
...daily pressure to create a winning race car that caused Stewart to pull himself over for a psychological pit stop. "I decided, 'I'm just going to up and go home,'" he said. It wasn't that Stewart disliked Charlotte (memo to Chamber of Commerce: he's still got a place there). It's that he just couldn't get away from the shop, which was only about 15 minutes from his house. So now Stewart spends time between races with his buddies, fishing or riding four-wheelers through the woods. "To be able to maintain a competitive edge...
...advertisement to win the attention of tourists and townies alike. On November 1, Lumen Eclipse—a local design and advertising company—will install two 42-inch plasma televisions on opposite sides of the Cambridge Office for Tourism’s information kiosk in the pit. One of the displays will show various video art pieces, while the other will display silent advertisements for local businesses. Lumen Eclipse co-founder Rory P. Keohane said that because the Square attracts heavy traffic and upholds a tradition of street performance, it makes for an ideal place to display...
...These meetings always leave a sickening feeling in the pit of our stomachs,” Isis President Alissa M. Gordon ’06 wrote at 3:15 a.m. last Wednesday morning, after club members convened in the Kirkland L Seminar Room to vote on the second round of punch cuts...
...more. When judgment day comes, other economic forces will influence the decision. Medicare, which is in far worse shape than Social Security, already is in the red on a cash basis. In what promises to play out as a mean-spirited competition, Congress has laid the groundwork to pit individual citizens against one another, to fight over the budget scraps available for those and all other programs...