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...shaping up to be the ump's season of discontent. A French public that has tossed out the last two governments because of their reform programs has for more than a year now been growling its displeasure over Raffarin's belt-tightening regime. Last May public sector workers - including transport workers, civil servants and teachers - took to the streets to protest pension reforms, and during the summer performing-arts workers shut down arts festivals in a battle over unemployment benefits that's still going on. Thousands of scientists and researchers have marched against reduced funding, and last week some...
...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...
...rich northeast corridor. The Washington Metro moves 600,000 people near national monuments. What makes trains useful is what makes them devilishly hard to secure: many doors, high volumes of passengers and thousands of miles of lonely tracks. "I hear people saying it is virtually impossible to make public transport in the U.S. secure," says a former government railway official. "That's wrong. It is impossible...
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...