Word: shells
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Buildings that were once thriving now look decrepit and dilapidated. An Internet café is now an empty shell of a concrete structure. Some restaurants have been hit four or five times in car bomb attacks. Wires and cables are strewn like drunken, haphazard spider webs from building to building and street to street. I saw the hotel room I lived in for six weeks in 2004. Not because the desk manager let me in - the place is now shuttered and boarded up - but because the windows are blown out. Banks, mosques, and hospitals, in addition to whole neighborhoods and private...
...debate Thursday night inside Hillary Clinton's shell-shocked campaign was what to do now - specifically: how negative to go on Barack Obama. Her 10-minute speech from the stage in the Hotel Fort Des Moines was all magnanimity and grace. Congratulating Obama and former North Carolina Senator John Edwards, who finished ahead of her, Clinton said, "Together we have presented a case for change and made it absolutely clear that America needs a new beginning...
...triple digit oil. "As we move forward we're looking at the sources of oil becoming more and more expensive," says Brendan Bell, an energy analyst with the Union of Concerned Scientists. "I don't realistically see it becoming cheap again." It might be scant consolation, but when you shell out extra to fill up your car or pay your heating bill, at least you're helping the planet, a little...
...recent snowy Saturday, Francess Reda, her two children and one of their friends arrived at the Boulder, Colorado, shelter to put the matching test to the test. They'd already spotted Mariah, a four-month-old stray tortoise-shell kitten, online. And when they filled out the Feline-ality form, they discovered that their needs and expectations matched Mariah's. Not really a "Leader of the Band" or "Personal Assistant," Mariah checked out more like a "Sidekick" - "I like attention, and I also like my solitude...
...good news is that the White House is seemingly the only place green hasn't gone mainstream. Just last week, 150 top global corporations - including General Electric, Johnson & Johnson and Shell - endorsed a petition calling for mandatory cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, a business position unthinkable just a year ago. Australia - a Kyoto holdout, like the U.S. - just elected a new Prime Minister with a strong environmental record who says he'll ratify the Protocol. States and cities in the U.S. have taken their own steps on climate change in the absence of action from the White House, and Congress...