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...with snowballs. Embarrassed, they run off, leaving us alone to enter the courtyard, which is deserted save for the occasional herder passing through with his goats. Clouds hang low, draping the gilded rooftop. Tsurphu, an imposing red-brown block complete with a blue and gold standard fluttering from the roof, looks every bit the abandoned castle...
STORE MORE Remember those funky old 5 1/4-in. floppy discs that looked like roof tiles and held a paltry 800 kilobytes of data? Well, forget 'em. Iomega has a new disc called Peerless that stores 20 gigabytes--more than most hard drives. Granted, a Peerless disc drive costs $400, but that's for enough space to fit your entire PC on a single disc. And you can probably fit all those back issues of National Geographic you've been keeping in the attic...
...parents, say, book their medical appointments, compare prices for childcare in their area, learn about programs for kids with special needs and sign up for the new "baby bond," "these are all step-changes in service that people will notice" - as long as the local school gets a new roof too. As banks, airlines and other big companies increasingly lavish the most attention on the most profitable customers, Mulgan thinks, "in five years, the government could be outperforming the private sector in terms of the service it gives the typical family...
...evening, scores of soldiers, civilians and rebels, including commander Yusup Nadjal, were lying dead on the roads and in the jungle, or expiring in a local hospital?the Abu Sayyaf stormed St. Peter's Catholic church and the hospital, placed snipers in the church belfry and on the hospital roof and announced they had taken 200 more hostages. "We are part of an Abu Sayyaf suicide squad," fighter Abu Sulaiman told local radio. "If you do not stop the military action, we will execute the hostages." A group of six Dominican nuns found themselves among the new captives...
...People around here have been joking that if you put a roof over JFK Street, you’d have a mall,” says Adam Dicenso, who has worked at Pinnochio’s Pizza for the last 12 years...