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...enough, the archipelago nation faces a more elemental challenge. It could find itself submerged, its fragile coastline and coral reefs facing extinction as sea levels swell. "We are sitting on a time bomb," says Abdul Azeez, a leading Maldivian environmentalist. For a nation of so small a size (the Maldives' population is less than 400,000), the new government's task is monumental. "It is as if, in the same country, both Saddam Hussein was toppled and the Berlin Wall fell," says Ahmed Naseer, a painter and dissident who lived in exile in Sri Lanka with Nasheed. It falls...
...issue will contain more ads than any other issue in recent years, says Younger. “We’re doing well probably because our rates are very low,” she says. “We’re not pushing [businesses] into buying the biggest size ad either...
...order to draw in young people, the museum was renovated with an eye toward a more interactive experience, a concept unknown in Soviet-era museums, most of which have no pulse - and sometimes no lights. So there's a full-size mock-up of the Mir space station module and a theater that monitors the progress of the space station in real time via video link. Most of the museum, however, is made up of the usual look-but-don't-touch exhibits. A full-size model of the iconic Sputnik satellite is suspended from the ceiling, while the tiny...
...With the average section increasing in size, there will be fewer sections overall, which will translate into fewer teaching positions...
...don’t think that many students will notice the change in section size,” McCarty said, who said he foresaw only a small increase in the average enrollment. “It is really about bringing our section sizes in line with our policy goals...