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...wooden notice-board carries the kind of travelers' advice common across Asia. There are the recommended prices for porters and transport, the usual warnings against pushy vendors selling fakes. News on bandits in the area catches our attention: it seems a little paranoid in law-abiding Japan. But it's the sizeable reward for turning Christians in to authorities that offers the most obvious hint that it has been a while since this bulletin was updated...
Gdynia's success comes at a time of oversupply in the shipping industry worldwide and hard times generally in Eastern Europe's fledgling market economies. Wolfgang Hubner, head of the transport division at the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), called the Gdynia yard's resurrection "astonishing. Everyone is pleasantly surprised--except its competitors...
...read the writing on the wall," says Nevada state senator Bill O'Donnell. "We're going to get the waste." O'Donnell believes Reid should negotiate with the Administration now so that Nevada would get something from the deal, such as a railroad through less-populated areas to transport the waste, or a goodwill grant of federal land, which makes up 87% of the state...
...tusks, and leading a violent gang that has smuggled rare sandalwood from forest reserves for 30 years. But to the desperately poor living in the fringes of southern India's forests, Veerappan is a near folk hero. In a region with few jobs, he employs them to fell and transport sandalwood trees, pays for people's weddings and, by avoiding capture for decades, has successfully thumbed his nose at legions of corrupt politicians and government officials...
...Sunday, following the furor over Friday's alleged rape, the Kadena base opened its gates to visitors for an "American Fest" with carnival rides, a haunted house and a menu of hotdogs, hamburgers and barbecued ribs. One of the visitors, 27-year-old Kaori Teruya, stepped inside a huge transport plane, the reports of the rape attack not far from her mind. "My girlfriends and I are always bothered by these American servicemen," Teruya said. "I am scared." The disturbing question is: How can Okinawans like Teruya feel so unsafe living alongside U.S. servicemen?whose duty is to protect them...