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...Road Ahead Alongside road 4, the 143-mile (230 km) ribbon of asphalt connecting Sihanoukville and Phnom Penh, water buffalo graze in rice paddies that stretch from horizon to horizon. Kids in white school uniforms pedal their bikes in the dirt, moving alongside traffic like birds riding on air currents. It's places like these - in other words, most of Cambodia - where the five-star visions of the coast begin to get a bit blurry. Neither tourism nor oil alone can drive the national economy in a meaningful way. There must also be investment in agriculture and other sectors that...
...most impressive part of his engine is an unmatched second gear. In the Preakness, he hung with leaders until the far turn. Then, with little prodding from Desormeaux, he glided past everyone down the stretch. "It's very unusual to have a horse who can do that," says Hall of Fame trainer Carl Nafzger. "He doesn't really hit overdrive; he just moves away." Big Brown's knack for controlling a race has Nafzger comparing the laid-back colt to Seattle Slew, the legendary horse who won the Triple Crown in 1977. No one saw this coming; Big Brown sold...
After being just barely edged out by No. 7 Princeton—by 0.4 seconds—in their heat, the varsity eight made a heroic surge in the last stretch of the race to place third, ahead of the Tigers who had beat Radcliffe by six seconds in April...
...Zhang Xuede, 70, has kept vigil here for the better part of a day, since a 7.9-magnitude earthquake rocked this stretch of China's Sichuan province, killing at nearly 15,000 and injuring 26,000. Zhang's grandson was in class at the Xinjian school when the quake hit. In the aftermath, Zhang rushed to the collapsed school and helped lift students out of the rubble. "I uncovered several children," he says. "Some were dead, some were still alive. But I couldn't find my grandson." More than 24 hours and a night of cold rain later, Zhang still...
...Although Britt said the surplus only amounts to two percent of the UC’s annual allocable budget of $467,462.22, he said the surplus was a sign of better management of the UC’s budget. “Essentially we were able to stretch the budget a little better than last year,” Britt said. According to Britt, this year, the UC funded $343,643.54 out of $542,141.20 requested. Last year the UC funded $293,943.70 of $477,970.95. Finance Committee (FiCom) Chair Andrea R. Flores ’10 said the extra...