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...questions about the architecture and curriculum. I got them lumbering over to Emerson as quickly as I could then sprinted to the Crimson building, just in time to hook up my recording equipment to the phone. Did you know that you can buy a phone tap at Radio Shack for six bucks? In fact, you can buy the basic components of a detonation mechanism there for less than you'd pay for a core class sourcebook. And if you need special parts, they'll order them. Ever wonder about that? As it turns out, our friendly electronics store is little...
...rugged, snow-mantled mountainside above Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, Joloi Beishenov tends his flock on horseback, as his ancestors did centuries ago. During the cold season he shelters his 70 sheep in two traditional canvas yurts and lives alone in a spartan wooden shack until the warm weather brings his family up from the lowlands. This spring there is another new season, the opening out of the former Soviet Union; Beishenov has heard about new economic reforms, and hopes to rent from a neighboring state farm the strip of stony pasture he uses for grazing. But he is unmoved...
...neighboring news stand and Weiner's shop had a friendly relationship until the shed was sold to Indelicato. Weiner said there were "no problems" with the shack, even when the stand overstepped its permit and began to sell magazines. But now that the shack, equipped with heating, electricity and its own phone line, is seeking to expand its business and Weiner says he has had enough. "What I would like to see is the removal of the stand," Weiner said...
Despite a presentation by Indelicato, who stated that expanding his business would create jobs for young Cantabrigains, councillors questioned the legality of the shack's location on city property and asked City Manager Robert W. Healy to investigate the matter...
...Weiner, the stand's presence is more than a matter of public policy. Weiner told councillors last week that the shack is in "sharp contrast" to its surroundings and is in an unsafe location, far out on the curb and practically in the path of traffic...