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...river, a burgeoning population of ethnic Albanians is building one of the largest new towns in the newborn state - new kitchen appliance shops and cinemas are popping up to cater to the needs of a growing white-collar population. North of the river, Belgrade is doing its best to shore up the Serb community, doubling the salaries of civil servants who agree to stay on. "Belgrade will never abandon you!" Serb politicians told crowds during a recent election campaign, but many locals who can afford to have reportedly bought property outside of Kosovo. Northern Mitrovica is taking on the look...
Harvard men’s golf rode out a rollercoaster of a year. Tasting its sweetest victory at the Yale Spring Opener but suffering bitter defeats, particularly in the fall, the young team will return all golfers next year to try to put together more quality rounds. Junior Michael Shore captained the Crimson and led it to its first-ever win at Yale in the program’s 33-year history. He took top honors, bursting out of a 12-way tie at 14th place after day one to shoot a 70 and tie for first place on Yale?...
...postcard-perfect beaches of Cambodia's scores of islands and 270 miles (435 km) of southern shore have gone largely unnoticed by developers for the past 40 years. But in 2007, a record 2 million tourists visited Cambodia, signaling that the country was beginning to shake its killing fields image as an impoverished backwater where wandering off the beaten path could mean finding yourself astride an unexploded land mine. Cambodia is starting to register as a must-see destination, and it's not all about Angkor Wat. Brackish mangrove swamps and remote beaches are being envisaged as golf courses...
...childhood obesity epidemic is a tsunami," says David Ludwig, an obesity researcher at Children's Hospital Boston and the co-author of the editorial. "We're beginning to see the wave hitting the shore...
...Greece, like Italy and Spain, has miles of exposed coastline, making it a common entry point for immigrants aiming for European Union soil. Often people-smugglers, eager to avoid capture, force their charges off their boats and into the water well before arriving at shore. Thousands of would-be immigrants are believed to die each year in the Mediterranean, according to a top European Union official. Arrivals in Greece, most of them smuggled by boat from Turkey, have been increasing in recent months. Ioannou said that on this small island of Leros, for example, more than 800 immigrants have come...