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LIVING: The sequel to a graphic novel about life in Iran; restaurants that help with portion control...
...commitment to grassroots action didn’t stop with Jeff. My job was to manage a team of 12-14 full-time organizers who were each responsible for a portion of the district. These organizers were mostly Jeff’s former students, and the average age of the organizing team was about 21. The organizers were responsible for finding supporters in their areas and turning those supporters into activists. By election day, they were managing a team of over 200 activists and responsible for finding more than 20,000 votes. They developed relationships with community leaders and neighborhood...
...operatives would use traditional methods of attack. They propose acquiring a black limo, gutting all but its front seats and filling the empty portion presumably with explosives. They also discuss using an oil truck to ram through the front entrance...
...share of terrorist battles with Algerian, Islamist and pro-Palestinian groups, are much more circumspect, telling the public to watch their backs when there's danger afoot but remaining studiously silent about what drove them to issue a warning. "Why do you want plotters aware you know even a portion of what you've discovered?" asks a French security official...
...because in the West most precipitation falls as snow at higher elevations. Thus, a city like Reno, Nevada, gets, on average, just over 7 in. of precipitation a year, vs. some 70 in. at the top of nearby Mount Rose. During the 1950s drought, for example, a very large portion of the West, along with a big chunk of the Southeast and Great Plains, experienced long-term shortfalls of both winter snows and summer rains. "This is the kind of drought we worry about a lot," says Betancourt--and it's the kind of drought that the present configuration...