Word: tolls
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...almost three decades later, as the bells toll for all those who weren't prevented from jumping, the outlook for getting a barrier built is still as cloudy as San Francisco...
...called Net neutrality. That would keep broadband providers from charging premiums to content providers (like Google or MySpace) for faster connections, which could limit consumer access to some sites. "If Congress guts Net neutrality," says Moby, "independent sites would be choked off, and the Internet will become a private toll road." And that's a whale of an issue...
...When Merapi last erupted 12 years ago, 60 people were scorched to death by 300?C smoke. And since the tsunami of Dec. 26, 2004, which claimed 170,000 Indonesian lives, the government has been especially wary of the toll that can be inflicted by natural disasters. So the authorities have built dams to block the lava, set up evacuation routes, taught villagers to build bunkers, and transferred 20,000 people to makeshift shelters at least 8 km away...
...often provoke unrest. The PCC's reaction was swift. On Thursday night, bandits armed with grenades and machine guns attacked police stations and left five officers dead. Over the weekend they stepped up their attacks with a series of bombings, ambushes and drive-by shootings that took the death toll to 52. And on Sunday, they bombed 11 banks and a shopping center and burned more than 80 buses...
...Libya's isolation, which was hurting its vital petroleum industry; in fact, U.S. oil companies were lobbying hard from the mid 1990s for a rehabilitation of Libya, in order to be there first in the upgrading of its aging oil infrastructure. As American and international sanctions were taking their toll and the stagnation was slowly killing Gadfhafi's regime, he offered a major gesture, turning Libyan intelligence agents over for trial in the downing of of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland...