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...fire station, a school and a few public watersheds, Tysons has almost no public land. Like most other places in Fairfax County, Tysons is unincorporated and is overseen at the county level.) The government won't mandate these changes. Rather, property owners will apply individually to increase the scale or density of their holdings, to tear down or add to what is already standing, and work together to hammer out a grid of streets to replace the maddening squiggles of private, dead-end roads - a grid that Alcorn says is as important as the Metrorail in battling congestion...
...approaches would require people who don't get coverage from their employers to go out and buy it on their own. And both anticipate that the government would give lower-income people subsidies to help them afford that coverage. The House plan proposes providing those subsidies on a sliding scale to people who earn up to 400% of the poverty level - in other words, $43,320 for an individual and $88,200 for a family. That is about the level that the Senate Finance Committee is expected to come up with as well, but is significantly less generous than...
...Originally a small-scale guerrilla group in southern Lebanon formed to resist Israeli invasion in the 1980s, Hizballah built its reputation on a dogged ability to repeatedly hold its own against Israeli forces -an achievement nearly unprecedented in the Arab world. (See rare pictures of Hizballah's youth movement...
...neighboring countries of Lebanon and Jordan. Incensed over the expulsion, various militant factions, including the powerful Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) led by Yasser Arafat, began sprouting up in Palestinian refugee camps in southern Lebanon in the 1960s. The PLO's attacks on Israel's northern border prompted a full-scale invasion by Israeli troops in 1982, a conflict which angered south Lebanon's largely Shi'ia Muslim community - which directly suffered the consequences of Israel's military intervention - and fueling the rise of the next generation of militant groups, Hizballah among them. "When we entered Lebanon, there was no Hizballah...
...this week from the British aid group Oxfam that the humanitarian crisis in Somalia is the worst in Africa is not new. Last year, the U.N. called the situation in the Horn of Africa nation the world's worst. But Oxfam's is a much needed reminder of the scale of the catastrophe. One million Somalis are refugees. Two million need food. For most of these, malnutrition rates are beyond the U.N. threshold definition of an emergency. Around 400,000 refugees are in a single sprawling camp at Afgooye outside Mogadishu; 70,000 have arrived in the last month after...