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...that was not the most significant aspect of the episode. While the total sum was only about $27, that a stranger would trust them with his cash gave the villagers an appreciation of their own self-worth. Today, that tiny pool of money has grown into an enormous reservoir of hope and dignity for millions of people the world over...
...tough to put a positive spin on the massive eruption of mud that has displaced more than 12,000 people and buried a large swath of eastern Java in roiling, putrid sludge. But PT Lapindo Brantas, the Indonesian mining company widely blamed for releasing the reservoir of pressurized mud following a drilling accident last May, has come up with a novel form of damage control: sponsoring a sinetron, or Indonesian soap opera, on Surabaya TV station JTV. The 13-part series, Gali Lubang, Tutup Lubang (Digging a Hole, Filling a Hole), is a love story set among refugees left homeless...
After years of recovery from grief and agony, Lebanon is once again trapped in a cruel prologue to civil war: The country’s reservoir of anti-Syrian politicians and journalists are tumbling like tightly packed rows of collapsing dominoes...
...three. In most hand vacs, the dust catcher sits between the nozzle and the fan. As the catcher fills up, the fan has a harder and harder time pulling in grit. Dyson's uses the same "cyclone" technology pioneered in his upright vacuum, spinning debris off into a reservoir away from the fan. The reservoir can be full to the brim, and the Root 6 still won't lose suction...
...lined up a slew of endorsements of his own: labor groups, a phalanx of influential African-American ministers, and most prominently, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin. "It's across the board, and it's wide and deep, and it shows the support we continue to have, the great reservoir of goodwill we continue to enjoy in this district," Jefferson said at the red-bean-and-hot-dog-fueled opening of his New Orleans campaign headquarters this month. The election could hinge on the 40,000 displaced voters who drove in or voted absentee in the last mayoral race, helping Nagin...