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...place as it may appear, this is no bridge to nowhere. Soaring a quarter-mile (400 m) above the Baling River, the $216 million span will reduce travel time considerably for the stream of trucks and cars traversing a highway that connects the provincial capital, Guiyang, with the nearest big city, Kunming, the capital of neighboring Yunnan province. Far from resenting the bridge as a white elephant, the residents of nearby Guanling, a one-stoplight town where the average income is less than $150 a year, view it as crucial to economic development and improvement in their lives. "I really...
...work goes on. At the base of a $527 million bridge being built across the Yangtze River in Chongqing, dozens of dump trucks and backhoes rumble amid boulders and mud to prepare an access road to the span, scheduled to be completed this month. "It's good not having to worry about finding work and getting paid," says a laborer named Yang, who is helping construct the Chongqing Grand Theater, a magnificent music and opera house being built on a river headland within sight of the Chaotianmen bridge. "There are so many public projects going on, there will always...
...fellows] are specialists in covering certain areas of the world or the country, and Harvard has a lot of experts and researchers in their field who would love to work with them,” Giles said. The fellows’ chosen areas of study span a diverse set of issues. According to a press release for the foundation, Beth Macy, the families beat reporter at "The Roanoke Times," will study the financial, social, and political impact of the aging baby boomer population; former NBC correspondent and current freelance multimedia journalist Kevin Sites will focus on developing a model...
This legacy is precisely why we find President Obama’s recent decision to block the release of more detainee abuse photographs—which span a total of five years’ worth of images and depict a series of extreme interrogation techniques classified as torture, including waterboarding—to be extremely disappointing. Last month, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs announced that the Obama administration planned to release the photographs, citing a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the American Civil Liberties Union. But, on May 13, the administration changed its mind. The White House?...
...want it to be just one time for this small group of kids. If I could divide myself up and do that again and again and again so that kids get the reassurance that you're not only important once but you're important over a span of time. So, you know, I hope that it's working out that...