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...troops closer to current theaters of war and allow them more room to maneuver, say analysts. The Poles, for example, are offering 12,000 hectares of firing ground about 50 km from the German border that includes a specialized urban-warfare training facility complete with underground passages, a railway station and a bank. The Romanian port of Constanta on the Black Sea, already in use for Iraq, provides sea access to Central Asia and points east. Feith and other Pentagon officials stress that the aim is not just to move east but to change the nature of U.S. deployments...
...Almost every week for the past year, Yi, a microbiology associate professor at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), has been taking the old Kowloon-Canton Railway up to Shenzhen and Guangzhou to carry out his fieldwork. It was Yi, along with the Shenzhen Centers for Disease Control (CDC), who in May took samples from Shenzhen's Dongmen Market and made the discovery that the masked palm civet, as well as the raccoon dog and hog badger, carried a virus remarkably similar to the coronavirus that causes SARS. That research, initially hailed as a breakthrough in establishing the zoonotic origins...
...year India ranked 83rd, Pakistan 102nd, and Bangladesh, at 133rd, was dead last. With the world's second largest population and Asia's third largest economy, the size of Indian officialdom's graft is staggering. According to a TI 2002 report, police, doctors, teachers, judges, taxmen, land-registry employees, railway workers and utilities regulators make off with petty bribes amounting to $6.2 billion a year, or 1.3% of the country's GDP. In Bangalore, for example, TI documented how half of all expectant mothers must pay on average bribes of $22 for a doctor to attend the birth, while...
...Kong via a Runway 13 approach, and it never ceased to amaze me how close you got to the houses," he says. "It's a special place. There is nowhere in the world to equal it." Meanwhile, his friend David England had worked on the design of the Airport Railway Link and his Kowloon Bay office overlooked Kai Tak's southern runway. "I kept a brass telescope on my desk," England recollects, "and my colleagues soon got used to me breaking off mid-conversation to look at aircraft landing...
...decade, enabling fast connections from Paris to Frankfurt or Amsterdam to Barcelona and beyond. "There's not been as much money going into the rail industry since the railroads were first built in the 19th century," says David Briginshaw, editor of the U.K.-based International Railway Journal. Some say even that's not enough: last week, the European Commission released a report suggesting that a further €235 billion should be spent on rail and other transport links throughout Europe. Can either approach work? The French experience with high-speed trains suggests that they can win back passengers. Last year...