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...legislative panel that inspected the site on Jan. 21 said the construction of the tarmac may have been substandard, adding to a lengthening list of problems surrounding Suvarnabhumi's launch-including widespread graft allegations-and prompting Thailand's Transport Ministry to order an independent inquiry into the cracks. IOT, the Thai-Japanese contractor for the airfield surface, denied any defects in construction, blaming the damage on excess groundwater from recent floods seeping under the concrete...
...eight months ago. Chief librarian Hirsie Mohamed Hirey, 38, depends on a charity in Leicester, England, to send him second-hand books. The first shipment of 31,200 contained some oddities - Disorder in Crystals, The Handbook of Hardwoods (3rd Edition, Part I) and Balancing the Load: Women, Gender and Transport by Pritanthi Fernando and Gina Porter. But there were also some surprisingly appropriate titles: The Tactical Uses of Passion by F.G. Bailey (1983), a box of The Essential Guide to Drugs and First Aid and an entire section on criminal law. Testifying to the tenacity and endurance of Somalia...
...Aviation isn't the only area of Indonesia's transportation sector, vital to the 220 million people spread across its 1,800 islands, to be in difficulty. As Jakarta called in Singapore and the United States for help in the search for the aircraft on Thursday, local officials in East Java continued rescue efforts for the victims of a shipping disaster that left more than 400 missing when a ferry with 628 passengers went down off the coast of Java last Friday. On Wednesday, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono announced the creation of a special team to evaluate the nation...
...left has an easier time at introducing reforms? It has always been easier for the left to reform, but that's because the right has never taken its ideas to their conclusion. The best example was in 1995 [when the government abandoned reforms after weeks of transport strikes]. Once you give a sign like that, you tell the French clearly: If I do a reform that you don't like, you go into the street, I promise I'll withdraw...
...troops, shouldn't we just ask Halliburton to order it by the truckload? That would make the acquisition much quicker, since the company seems to have an unlimited government expense account. Or have the Defense Department buy Silly String directly from the manufacturer and ship it using military transport, which would be less expensive. Here's a third idea: purchase all the Silly String you can find, and drop it off at the closest military base to be shipped along with the same troops whose lives the stuff could save. Karen Garner Newport News, Virginia...