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...only place the town's booming soundtrack can't be heard is the site of the soon-to-be towers. There, near a concrete hole reminiscent of an open-pit mine, clusters of laborers pour cement and lash lengths of bamboo. Director of Construction Qiu Juping says it will take 1,500 workers five years to finish. These workers, imported from across the country, join 25,000 other migrant laborers to keep Huaxi afloat. They know building the tower will be tough, and potentially dangerous, but say they're proud to be part of something big. "I feel honored...
...they have been announced," said Jalal Khoshchehreh, an editor at the center-reformist newspaper Kargozaran, echoing the sentiment not only among reformists, but also among conservatives in the Wide Coalition of Principalists, who are critical of Ahmadinejad's policies. Both protested the announcement by Interior Minister Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi - before the counting was even complete - that the United Principalists had won 71% of the seats. "The Interior Minister who is supposed to be a neutral body clearly crossed a red line," wrote one reformist commentator...
...recent Saturday morning in their sunny Barcelona apartment, they have a more modest ambition: to get some medicine into their 2 year-old son, Maties, who's been running a fever since the previous night. Domenech holds the twisting, crying toddler, as his mom manages to pour the syrup down the hatch...
...suffice to say, doesn't believe you can keep them down on the farm, and neither does anyone else. So people will continue to pour into Shanghai - and other major cities - and a good portion of the middle class will escape to the suburbs as the cities grow ever more crowded. So no, Guo added, he doesn't lose sleep over the prospect of real estate booms and busts here. "And neither," he added, smiling broadly, "should...
...Harvard prepares to pour $1 billion into scientific research in Allston, a bill is expected to pass the Massachusetts legislature within the next few days that would provide $1 billion in public funds for cutting-edge life sciences research...