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Tired of the gray skies and dirty snow of Cambridge? Well, it’s only going to get worse in January. But escape is possible! During reading period, three plays will transport their audiences to three very different places: Arabia, Ancient Troy, and the Garden of Eden.“Shahrazad”“Shahrazad,” which will be presented in the Loeb Experimental Theatre from Jan. 10-12, promises to be “your Oriental fantasy come true,” says director Karol W. Malik...
...government had planned to modify the system but, nearly a year on, it has only succeeded in botching the job. One transport minister has been sacked and another is picking up the pieces, as the transit system is losing over $1 million a day. Transantiago - possibly the most hated word in the Chilean lexicon - is a classic case of a good idea wrecked in the implementation...
...refugees have journeyed home--mostly from Syria, which has introduced tough new visa regulations designed to send back Iraqis and turn away new waves at the border. Many had simply run through their life's savings and could no longer afford exile. (The Iraqi government has offered cash, free transport from the border and other inducements for those who agree to go back.) Perhaps tellingly, so far there have been few returnees from Jordan, the preferred destination of educated, middle-class Iraqis like the Awadis...
...biodiesel). As he scales a 500,000-gallon (1.9 million L) holding tank, plant manager Sid Watts can't conceal his pride. He points to the dock, where ships bring in vegetable oil from places like Indonesia and Malaysia, and to the rail terminal, where trains will help transport 100 million gallons (380 million L) of biodiesel a year to Imperium's customers. Watts is happy to see his refinery jump-start the economy of Grays Harbor, but he knows the benefits of Imperium's green, low-carbon fuel will be felt well beyond the town. "It just makes...
...scenario of a small, well-prepared group of Algerians making it to France without detection, and quickly unrolling an attack," a French intelligence official tells TIME. Interviews with French intelligence and counter-terrorism officials indicate recent busts of jihadists groups in France have uprooted networks seeking to recruit and transport young militants to fight U.S.-led forces in Iraq. The last group caught working toward an attack against France dates back to September 2005 - and had been working on instruction of AQIM's earlier incarnation, Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat. "That doesn't mean there might not be French...