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Swine flu arrived in Macon County, Alabama, last week, showing up in classrooms at all levels and leaving a spate of empty desks in its wake. But authorities are battling the virus on its own turf, using vacant seats as both a map and compass to stem the tide...
Berlin's creaking urban rail network is just another in a series of problems facing the city. Over the past year, there has been a spate of car burnings in the capital, teachers have written public letters to the authorities complaining about the poor standards at city schools, and youth violence has been on the rise. And the city council is struggling for money after running up new debts this year to the tune of $1.3 billion, bringing its debt total to $85 billion...
...spate of bombings, mass arrests and gunfights in Tajikistan over the past few months connected to militants fleeing the increased fighting in Afghanistan and Pakistan has caught the attention of the international community. "The European Union is highly concerned about the situation in Pakistan and its reflection on Tajikistan," said Ambassador Pierre Morel, the E.U.'s special representative in Central Asia, at a news conference in the Tajik capital Dushanbe on July 14. "We support the current politics of [Tajikistan] directed towards the eradication of armed terrorist groups and drug traffic to [the country...
...Haas said the recent spate of shootings has been notable because many of them occurred in the same geographical area—in most cases, in North Cambridge—at around the same time...
...early years of the Depression, in fact, were marked by repeated periods during which the economy seemed to stabilize, only to careen further downward - usually as the result of some new spate of bank failures. Since March, the economy has clearly been stabilizing, but there's no guarantee that trend will continue. The data lately have been mixed - today, durable-goods orders were up by more than expected, while new home sales were down by more than expected. So the Fed remains in a holding pattern, one that Goodfriend expects will continue for months...