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...whiter arrives and snow blankets the mountains, the pandas will face more than tummy aches. Two have already died. In 1975-76 a similar flower-and-die disaster involving the umbrella bamboo, which is in a different growth cycle, led to the deaths by starvation of 138 animals in a panda habitat on the border of Sichuan and Gansu provinces...
...Defense Department founded the program after World War II to encourage physics and applied science research. The program serves as an umbrella for smaller research projects in 14 U.S. universities, including Harvard, MIT, Stanford University, the University of Texas, and the University of Illinois. The Department awards Harvard's researchers an annual grant of approximately $720,000 and Harvard reserves part of this sum for graduate students' theses...
...midst of that debacle, the country was shut down by the general strike, which had been called by the two General Confederations of Labor, umbrella union organizations that are dominated by Peronists. At dawn, when supply trucks are normally bustling through the center of Buenos Aires, the streets looked like a scene from the film On the Beach. The railroad stations that are usually teeming with commuters seemed like vast caverns, and airports were closed to all but military traffic. Shops, offices, cinemas and most restaurants were shuttered. In the industrial belt, factories lay idle. By the union...
Flaherty said that the wording of the bill is inadequate. "Sexual preference is not clearly defined," he explained. "Such nonspecific wording, if passed as a law, would protect those with records of sexual misconduct, molestation, harassment, fetishes, and other sicknesses, all under the umbrella term of 'sexual preference...
...dissidents, however, have already been punished with a vengeance: most of them vanished during the dirty war. In effect, the military was absolving itself of its earlier atrocities. It even declared that anyone associated with those crimes could never in the future be "interrogated, investigated, cited or confronted." The umbrella law also applies to those who have already been convicted, including some 200 members of the armed forces...