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...threats of tickets and towings, and a 1930 city ordinance that prohibited overnight parking on public roads.HELL ON WHEELSThe students who had cars found resourceful ways to deal with Cambridge authorities. In December 1955, City Councillor Marcus Morton called for what The Crimson labeled a “full-scale attack” against violators, and in July 1956, Cambridge police officers in Harvard Square wrote 5,000 parking tickets in two weeks, issuing so many that their press ran dry and additional orders of tickets had to be placed. Some cars were even hit twice—once...
...delegation presents them privately to Iranian leaders.? But they are known to include the enticement of a light water power reactor - whose radioactive fuel is hard to convert to use in a bomb - and the specter of? punishments ranging from? bank account freezes and travel bans to a full-scale economic embargo...
...negotiate a deal with the Europeans, it insists that it won't abrogate its right, under the Non-Proliferation Treaty, to enrich uranium. Tehran has signaled a flexibility on time frames, and also a willingness to consider importing its reactor fuel if it is allowed to maintain the small-scale uranium enrichment research facility it is currently operating at Natanz, albeit under closer international supervision. The U.S., Britain and France have rejected that possibility on the grounds that any enrichment activity gives Iran critical know-how for bomb production...
...never expected anything of this scale. It was totally unprecedented in Kabul. We were here during the mujahedin and Taliban years and have never seen anything like it," said Paul Barker, the director of CARE Afghanistan. The offices of the relief agency were looted and burned to the ground, along with those of French aid agency ACTED and a number of Afghan restaurants and businesses. On Tuesday, four Afghan aid workers with the charity Action Aid were killed in the first targeted attack on an NGO in northern Jawzjan province, which like Kabul, had previously been viewed as stable. "People...
JODI RIWONO, survivor of an earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale that struck near the Indonesian city of Yogyakarta, killing thousands of people and flattening entire villages...