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...indicate how many of the troops released from service will be regulars. In the past, the People's Liberation Army has helped absorb some of China's underemployed. For example, hundreds of thousands of troops work in railroad and work battalions. Whatever the fate of the newly demobilized thousands, the cuts should help streamline and modernize a relatively backward military machine. They also serve a broader purpose. Just six months ago, Defense Minister Zhang Aiping declared that defense production should take a backseat to building up the state economy...
...weather finally arrived this month, it proved to be yet another kind of curse. A heavy deluge produced flash floods that raced through long-dry riverbeds and rushed over brick-hard earth, turning airstrips into quagmires and rendering roads and rail lines impassable. The torrent washed out a vital railroad bridge that linked the region to Port Sudan, cutting off hundreds of thousands of famine victims from emergency food supplies...
...waited. I remembered my fear at the sight of the bodies in the river. I saw not a single fish. That river was always full of fish. The whole area between my school and the Miyuki Bridge had looked so different. That was where Hiroshima University had stood. A railroad operated in that neighborhood. A Red Cross hospital had been there too. All gone. Children lay in the arms of dead parents, parents carried the bodies of dead children. The soldiers who brought me to the warehouse told of seeing a horse killed on the spot where it stood during...
...company officials were not as interested in deals and flattery as they were in a specific list of requirements that the site must meet. Among other things, the plant had to be near a railroad, water transportation and at least two interstate highways. Every day the factory would need 4 million gal. of fresh water, half a million pounds of steam and 80 megawatts of power...
Nachtwey—known as “Rook” to her friends in the “Pit”—was allegedly raped, stabbed multiple times, beaten, and then thrown off a railroad bridge into the Charles River on Nov. 3, 2001. Joggers found her body floating in the Charles near the Boston University Bridge the next...