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...shelter to those who lost everything, and to keep the peace. Chinese media on May 14 estimated that there were 25,000 people trapped in collapsed structures in the quake zone, including more than 18,000 in Mianyang, a city of 5 million. In Dujiangyan (pop. 600,000), where row after row of apartment buildings were reduced to heaps and corpses lay on the sidewalks, rescue operations resembled an invasion. Military vehicles ranging from heavy trucks to jeeps, ambulances and mobile kitchens were everywhere. So were People's Liberation Army soldiers and the paramilitary People's Armed Police, who used...
...Syesha is a mystery. In seven out of the last nine weeks, she has been amongst the bottom three vote-receiving contestants, yet she continues to outlast seemingly stronger competitors. The past three weeks in a row she has been one of the bottom two vote-getters, suggesting she should be ousted the next week. And yet, every time, she survives...
...house paint and syringes from the prison infirmary, he used those to create swirling, Jackson Pollock-like patterns. "If I had a lot of colors, I'd use them. If I only had black or brown, I'd use it," he says. During his seven months on death row, fellow inmates donated their sarongs - the only clothing allowed them - so that he would have something to paint on. A warden burned some of his earliest efforts, believing that they were escape maps - which, in one sense, they were - but by the time he was released in 2004, Htein...
...billion over four years. Farmers now get emergency aid for disasters like flood or drought on a case-by-case basis, but payments can take years. Sen. Kent Conrad, a North Dakota Democrat, says the new program would allow farmers to borrow more money more quickly, and plant "fence row to fence row" to "give us a market response to these high prices...
...Twelfth Night” looks to wed the Shakespearian classic’s timeless comedy with the Jazz Age’s wonderful music, dance, and booze. The idea first surfaced during Hyperion’s search for a director. For the second year in a row, the company decided to have their production professionally directed. They knew they found their man in Shelley Bolman. “Shelley’s [application] just immediately stood out because he wrote about the play with such enthusiasm and passion. A great part of that was this new idea...