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Burma's military leaders have deemed the relief and rehabilitation stage of the post-Nargis clean-up "successfully carried out." But the United Nations estimates that roughly half of the storm's victims have still not seen any form of aid more than four weeks after the cyclone. A pledge last month by junta leader Than Shwe to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon that the government would no longer impede foreign relief work has still not been fully met. After nearly a month vainly awaiting permission from the junta to deliver relief supplies, four U.S. Navy ships on June...
...With the revelations made in the past week, Americans ought to wonder whether they have ever actually seen this president stare down a storm on his own, and whether he has ever, with the privilege of principle and information on his side, overruled the bleak drumbeat of his éminence grise. And, if not, we may be forced to ask if he is instead merely a overgrown boy, coasting along a dark sea—full of bravado, without a care, and with...
...cult musical tells the story of an innocent couple stranded in a storm who seek help in a castle—but find instead rock, sex, and transsexuals. Maybe we were hoping for an awakening for ourselves. Casts screen and embellish Rocky in theaters from Israel to Paris, Las Vegas to West Des Moines...
...Until the state's challenge is heard, however, the woman - identified only as a 25-year-old nursing student from northern France - is condemned to play the role of symbol for the many forces that have seized her case as a major cause. The storm broke out last Thursday, when France's national media picked up on the unpublicized April 1 verdict annulling the couple's 10-month marriage on the husband's complaint that his wife's prenuptial assurances of virginity were false. The judge had reasoned that the wife's claimed virginity constituted "an essential quality decisive...
...March 1999, the 84-foot radio telescope was badly damaged in a storm, and in 2007 it was torn down. The search, however, continues for Horowitz, who has moved on to optical SETI, using a 72-inch optical telescope for his current project...