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...molded stool and sleep platform covered by a thin mattress. The solid metal door is outfitted with strips around the sides and bottom, muffling conversation with inmates in adjacent cells. Three times a day, a tray of food is delivered and is eaten alone. The prisoner may spend 23 hours a day in lockdown, emerging to exercise once a day. The lights in the cell never go off, although they may be dimmed a bit at night...
...Critics worry that taking away what little autonomy the Central Bank has left will give Chavez unfettered access to spend foreign reserves, which they say could further weaken the currency and spike already-climbing inflation. Maza also admitted that the nationalization call was generating investor fear and he even critiqued the management of the state oil company, saying it was sacrificing needed investments in oil infrastructure for massive spending on Chavez's social development programs...
...David Cameron: I think I've had the advantage of being able to spend time learning the lessons of the last 10 years. We've got a long way still to go but the progress over the last year has been based on the fact that we had a clear understanding of what was wrong and what needed to be put right and I sought a mandate from the Conservative Party to put it right and said there was going to be a lot of change: party modernization in terms of candidates, changing some of the positions of the party...
...party has ever done that as far as I can see. [Gestures at David Mundell, sitting at the next table.] I mean David is my shadow Secretary of state for Scotland, so he's focused on Scotland, but it means all of the others have got to spend some time thinking right how are we going to help deliver this Conservative recovery in Scotland...
...education plan was announced on Sunday by Taliban chief spokesman Abdul Hai Muthmahien, who phoned the Associated Press to announce that the movement planned to spend $1 million to build schools in six provinces in which it had gained a foothold. "Taliban are not against education," he said. "The Taliban want Shariah [Islamic law] education." He also said that schools for girls would follow later, a promise that rings hollow considering that during the six years of Taliban rule in Afghanistan, not a single girl was allowed to attend school...