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...basketball team got ready to face Santa Clara last Friday, it appeared to be in a bit of trouble up front.Hamstrung by multiple injuries and facing a Broncos team with huge 6’11, 275-pound John Bryant and two other players taller than the tallest member of the Crimson, it would have been understandable if Harvard ended up on the short end of things...
...seven years have passed without another attack on our soil. This is not for lack of trying on the part of the terrorists. Since 9/11, the United States and our allies have stopped deadly terrorist plots, including a 2002 plot to hijack an airplane and fly it into the tallest skyscraper in Los Angeles, a 2003 plot to hijack and crash multiple planes into targets on the East Coast, and a 2006 plot to blow up multiple passenger jets traveling from London...
...been for want of trying: since September 11 the U.S. Government has foiled plans to blow up ten planes flying from the UK to the United States simultaneously, the terrorist plot to explode JFK airport in New York, the Al Qaeda plan to fly an airplane into the tallest building in L.A., and other planned attacks, domestically and internationally. Considering the many foiled plots that have not been made public, the safety and security of the Unites States since September 11 has been truly remarkable. The Bush administration worked to ensure America’s safety by reforming our homeland...
...legislators have struggled to close a deficit of more than $1 billion in the 2009 budget. Budget projections for 2010 and 2011 also look grim. Construction on Boyd Gaming's $4.8 billion Echelon resort was stopped last August just as three of its towers reached the 12th floor (the tallest would have risen to 55 stories). Construction won't resume until 2010, though the cranes will remain towering above the site (it's cheaper to leave them in place - and these days no one else in town needs them...
...suddenly dried up, and that's having an immediate effect on machinery makers and other manufacturers. Construction has also seized up in many places. Last month in Moscow, lack of funding stopped work on a Norman Foster - designed skyscraper called the Russia Tower that was going to be the tallest naturally ventilated building in the world. (See pictures of Moscow...