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...didn’t really know what to expect,” Dougherty says. “What struck me is the dryness of the land—any sort of open space is just dirt...
...might work, although Banda Aceh's tragic history remains more of a draw. Unlike Phuket, where the tsunami also struck, Aceh is not simply repairing a tourism infrastructure. It is building one from scratch and tsunami tours are proving popular - particularly in the domestic market. A fifth of Banda Aceh's population was wiped out on Dec. 26, 2004. Today, any trip to the city is incomplete without a visit to a ship heaved a mile inland and stranded amid the houses. On its top deck I meet Tisul Himat, 43, a trader from an island on Aceh's west...
...carbon tax had been plagued with troubles from the start - including the near refusal by rightist legislators to pass it until the Elysée whipped them into line in November 2009. A month later - just days before it was set to take effect - France's Constitutional Council struck the law down because it unlawfully applied measures to consumers while exempting French companies, by far the biggest carbon emitters. Sarkozy pledged to widen the measure to include businesses. But that only mobilized France's employers' lobby. With the voters finally having had their say, Sarkozy has decided to shelve...
...impression was that we had a more tactically cohesive team,” Nichols observes. “I was also struck by how silent the other teams were. Usually, we try to communicate a lot on the field, but we really didn’t hear that coming from the other side...
While the Crimson struck first in the second, the Big Red did not give up without a fight, responding with a 3-1 run to cut Harvard’s lead to four...