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...national strike over rising living costs paralyzed much of the country, with public transport grinding to a halt, including international rail services like the Eurostar. An estimated 190 mi of traffic jams were reported on the motorways by 7:30 a.m. Supermarkets shut their doors, production stopped at factories, and schools, post offices and museums closed across the country...
...gross, HBO's Little Britain USA (Sundays, 10:30 p.m. E.T.) is the one import this fall to retain its original cast, and it bets confidently that Yanks and redcoats alike can be united by the love of a good penis joke. Comics Matt Lucas and David Walliams transport the characters from their BBC sketch show, while adding a few American originals. But their new characters don't measure up, and the original British ones - like Lucas as thick-accented juvenile delinquent Vicky Pollard - are so culturally specific that they translate to being plopped inexplicably into American settings here like...
...premises. Yet the actual construction on the museum has not yet begun. So what has been going on behind the closed doors of 32 Quincy Street?KEEP IT SILENT, KEEP IT SAFEThis summer, the staff began the long, involved process of preparing the objects in the museum for transport to the off-site location where they’ll be stored during renovations. “It’s safe to say that it’s a very well-orchestrated and very complex project,” says Daron J. Manoogian, the Harvard Art Museums’ spokesman...
...grow food for the U.N.'s World Food Program, the biggest food aid distributor in Africa. Rather than simply buying the farmers' crops outright, much of the money will go to teaching better farming methods, and to helping them store their crops in warehouses, plant higher-yield seeds, and transport their produce to customers. Those are all serious obstacles for poor farmers, many of whom find it almost impossible to eke out more than a bare-bones existence from their plots...
...shift to plug-in cars could also help the development of renewable power, all the more important since a proliferation of electric cars would alter the national pattern of carbon emissions - the utility sector would take on the emissions that once belonged oil-based transport. While a power grid fueled by solar or wind would be clean, one of its key drawbacks is that it would also be intermittent - if the sun were shaded or the wind failed to blow, we wouldn't have power. Likewise, if solar or wind produced more power than the grid could use, that excess...