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Over the next three years, KickStart plans to expand into three more countries, sell 125,000 more pumps, roll out a "deep-lift irrigation pump" that can pull water from 60 ft. underground and bring 400,000 more people out of poverty...
...talking about music and we pretty much formed a band right there, coming out of Sever Hall.”The band Rudder and Rice formed, however, was not the one which would later lead them to indie glory and critical renown. Both were members of Record Hospital, the underground rock department of Harvard radio station WHRB, and their first band accordingly had a rougher edge. “We were called the Pissed Officers,” Rudder explains. “We were sort of punk and we played around campus.”It wasn?...
...secure contracts for yakuza-linked construction firms. But in recent years, Japan's huge budget deficit has forced politicians to cut back on spending and crack down on bid rigging. "The construction industry is tight even for legitimate companies," says Takashi Kadokura, an independent researcher who specializes in the underground economy. "There's less money, and the pie is getting smaller-especially outside of major urban areas, where the yakuza still largely depend on traditional businesses...
Like “Identities,” “Eleganza” was divided into four segments: “New York Underground,” “Euro Club,” “The South and Carnival.” The four scenes centered around the theme of revelry, but did not follow any sort of progression...
...Tunisia and Libya, meanwhile, authoritarian policing has kept extremist groups from taking root. But as the January firefight that left a dozen Tunisian radicals dead after they'd returned from Algeria attests, some degree of regional cooperation already exists for al-Qaeda to build upon. Underground groups in Algeria, Niger, Mali, and Mauritania have long trafficked materiel, weapons and personnel among themselves. A January 2005 attack on a military post in Mauritania by fighters of the Algerian GSPC prompted the U.S. and certain European states to begin funding the $100 million annual Trans-Sahara Counter-Terrorism Initiative, seeking to make...