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...Sitt's actions-- he demolished go-karts and batting cages this winter, long before he could start building anything to replace them--evoke one of the darker chapters in Coney Island redevelopment. In 1966, Fred Trump (Donald's father) tore down the Steeplechase amusement park to try to prod the city into letting him build high-rise housing. When the city didn't, Trump let the lot lie vacant--until the city bought...
...writes the notion off to Ragalie’s sleep-addled state, and Nowski points to the dining halls as a focal point for voter recruitment. “We can go into dining halls and annoy them,” says Sundquist. “Not annoy them...prod them.”“A big stick,” says Ragalie with a vague smile. MAN ON THE GROUNDMuch of what sold Petersen on Sundquist as his running-mate were the vice president’s interactive skills, which make him useful as the pair?...
...just wants to be left alone. But a couple of scientists at the Wolong Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda keep poking her with long bamboo poles. Hua Mei, who is in heat and (biologically, at least) ready to mate, gets another prod, pushing her in the direction of the neighboring cage where her putative partner, Wu Gong, is watching with placid indifference. Hua Mei reluctantly decides to cooperate and, raising her tail, pads delicately backward toward Wu Gong. The male panda takes one look at her proffered hindquarters and scoots over to the far corner...
While the European Parliament doesn't have the legal power to impose sanctions against E.U. countries found to have violated human rights by cooperating with the U.S. secret detention program, it can try to prod more member nations into starting criminal investigations. As one of the authors, European Parliament member Giovanni Fava, put it, "This is a report that doesn't allow anyone to look the other...
...disgusting movies--though she did show me these plastic models of the fetus at each stage of development--and told me that it has a heartbeat immediately, which I knew medically was not true." The counselor asked about her resources, her family and her intentions. "She didn't actually prod me in any particular direction," Barbour says. "She was just listening to me, nodding her head. She wanted to know if my family was religious, and I told her, well, I don't go to church, but my grandfather was a Methodist minister. She didn't act really judgmental...