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...primary goals. “The most significant occurrence in this budget is that for the first time in a long time, we will see an increase in the number of police,” Healy said. The city will hire four new police officers, who will be trained to work with weapons-detecting dogs, in accordance with the Council’s emphasis on public safety. Healy also praised the city’s decision to launch a transitional jobs program, which will help train and employ “disengaged” adults. The budget has increased largely...
Outreach efforts to Hanzich’s friends began once again, and Kirstin Woody— who studied health policy with him at Cambridge—decided to dedicate her effort to complete Ironman Arizona this April to Hanzich, who had enthusiastically supported her intention to train...
...think anybody can do any of these if they train. I don't recommend it, but anybody could do it if there was a need. That's what's interesting to me - how adaptable the human organism is. I train intensively. I built the pillar in the desert in California a year before I actually did it, and I spent months on end climbing up the pillar every day, standing up there, hanging out up there and getting comfortable and jumping down into cardboard boxes and airbags and getting used to jumping down 100 feet continuously and getting used...
...operation he needs. Last year, after years bouncing between hospitals and clinics, their son got an appointment to have the vital tests he needs before an operation. The family scraped together the $120 fee and traveled the 180 miles (290 km) to India's capital by train. But when they arrived they discovered the machine at the government hospital they had been visiting was broken and unlikely to be working anytime soon. Which is how the family came to be at AIIMS one morning late last year, hoping, cajoling, pleading for an appointment at the better-equipped hospital, and praying...
...romance has cooled. Some African activists worry that Beijing still sometimes props up ancient autocrats like Mugabe. In nations with strong civil societies like South Africa, there is a growing realization that many Western firms train local workers and understand how to operate in a free political environment. Meanwhile, activists in places like Ethiopia and Namibia have condemned Chinese investment practices, including poor wages and importation of Chinese laborers. In one of the worst incidents, Zambia exploded in protest after an accident at a Chinese-owned copper mine there in 2005 killed over 50 Zambians...