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...converted to Islam when he was 16. Though he became a devout Muslim, he appeared to lead the life of a normal teenager - he even played quarterback on an American football team. Things changed, however, when he started visiting an Islamic center in the southern city of Neu-Ulm and found himself outraged over the photos of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in Iraq and the terror suspects being held at Guantanamo Bay. "This Islamic center was a meeting place for young Muslims and they felt a sense of belonging and security there," says Thomas Wandinger, a security expert...
Heag Mobilo, a public-transportation company in Darmstadt, financed its purchases of new street cars through a similar arrangement. The city of Stuttgart leased and rented back its drinking-water system. Bottrop, a city in the Ruhr industrial region, financed a sewage-treatment plant in the same fashion, and Ulm, a southern German city, did such a deal to pay for construction of a refuse incinerator...
...sixth inning to make it a game, and added three in the seventh, courtesy of a three-run home run from Rogers. Freshman Marcus Way pitched three innings of relief for the Crimson, allowing just a single hit—a solo homer—to keep ULM...
...It’s the transparency issue, the fact that no one was consulted, neither students nor faculty,” Ulm said. “They just informed us of the decision unilaterally...
...drew over 100 members of the student body and faculty, according ot Rebecca Ulm, a studio arts and art history major at Brandeis who helped plan the event...