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...racked by a Maoist insurgency, the impoverished Himalayan kingdom could always count on two sources of foreign revenue: aid groups and backpackers. Now they are under threat, too. Earlier this month, Maoist guerrillas fighting to overthrow the monarchy and the country's feudal system called for a protracted national transport blockade to starve the capital, Kathmandu, and so to "pressure" the government to call a cease-fire, according to a statement from Maoist spokesman Jhhakku Prasad Subedi...
...Popular Party (PP) pointed to what they said were hallmarks of ETA involvement: the bombings took place just three days before Sunday's general election, which ETA had vowed to disrupt; it had targeted the railway system before; and only last month Spanish police had foiled ETA attempts to transport large quantities of explosives into Madrid...
Neil Paku, a native New Zealander whose wife is a post-doctoral student at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, said the conditions were ripe last December for Harvard to purchase the forest at a discounted rate. Paku worked this forest in log transport...
...BNSF in the West and Norfolk Southern and CSX in the East. "People from all over the world, from Europe to China, come to look at our system," boasts Matthew Rose, BNSF's chairman, president and CEO. They marvel, he says, at technological innovations like BNSF's intermodal transport system, which moves containers from faraway ports to inland rail yards, where cranes can quickly off-load them for trucks to deliver to retail warehouses. BNSF, which handles one-fourth of the nation's rail freight, posted double-digit increases in its intermodal business in 2003, with revenues up nearly...
...have the best sushi in Boston.” Preceptor in Japanese Emi Yamanaka notes that in comparison to other sushi restaurants in the area, the food is relatively authentic because of the “freshness of fish.” The quality of food and the atmosphere transport the diner to Japan, as Oishii closely resembles the typical little sushi bars of Tokyo. While it is not an extremely fancy restaurant, the chef is from Nobu, a famed restaurant in New York. Just beware of the long waits to get a table at this 14-seater, as they...