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...intact." In September of that year Salinger did something peculiar, perhaps the act of a man grasping for a stabilizer: He abruptly married a French woman living in Germany. Salinger brought her with him when he returned to the U.S. the following spring, but soon after, for reasons we don't know, she went back to France and dissolved the marriage. (See the best books of the decade...
When the White House announced last spring that it would allocate billions of stimulus dollars to high-speed-rail projects, states submitted 45 applications for more than $50 billion in aid. In the end, the Federal Railroad Administration decided to distribute $8 billion in funding to 31 states, with the biggest single grants going to California ($2.3 billion) and Florida ($1.3 billion...
Marcia C. Hamilton, 62, a lifelong resident of Cambridge, names herself as one of those disgruntled individuals. A barbed wire fence separates the yards of her home and, as she calls Fastman’s abode, the “purple house.” Since last spring, when the two chickens and three ducks were first brought into a constructed coop in the adjacent yard, Hamilton said she has been distracted by the unpleasant odors and loud noises that accompanied the birds’ daily habits...
Additionally, Fastman contended that the birds have improved his quality of life, and he hopes to keep them in his home, where they have lived since their arrival last spring...
...bounce of energy, not real momentum, but enough to buoy hopes of progress, with Karzai reaching out to some of those currently outside the government camp at the tribal jirga assembly he plans to convene within weeks. He also plans to convene an international conference in Kabul in the spring, although recent Taliban attacks in the heart of the capital have raised security fears over that event...