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...acres (700 hectares) to build more than 200 Olympic projects, some of them in Nizhneimeretinskaya Bukhta. The state has budgeted about $3.5 million to buy up the land. That works out to an average of $50 per 1,076 sq. ft. (100 sq m) or sotka, Russia's standard unit of land. But Sochi's successful Olympic bid has boosted Sochi land prices fivefold since last July; in April, a sotka in the area was on sale in a price range of $100,000 to $200,000. The Kovals figure they could have sold their four sotkas and the boarding...
Indeed, Interpol believes the global appeals may be the child exploitation unit's newest weapon. "It's a silver bullet," says Michael Moran, Interpol's head of operations for both cases. "We've shown the efficacy of this. The public likes being asked. They produce the goods. And it sends a message that if you abuse children, you will be caught." That doesn't mean civilian policing will dislodge more conventional methods. "There is no question this can help, and probably often would," says David Kennedy, Director of Center for Crime Prevention and Control at John Jay College of Criminal...
...photos suggested they may have been taken in Southeast Asia, the trail grew cold, and for two years investigators were unable to decipher the man's identity or whereabouts - even though he hadn't bothered to conceal his face in the images. So this week, Interpol's child exploitation unit did an unusual thing: they turned to the worldwide public for help...
...detests George W. Bush and the Iraq war--in jujitsu terms, Mamet thinks the U.S. was suckered into expending its energy and exposing weaknesses--but he's newly sold on libertarian economics. "I had a revelation during the midterm elections," he says. "I was making my TV show, The Unit, early in the morning. And I thought, I don't know what these people's politics are, but we're all dedicated to this idea of working together. That's all a traditional conservative view of economics is. That the free market will always accomplish socially and economically what government...
...folks who are middle income in the community, it makes it that much harder to bridge that divide,” said Beth Rubenstein, the assistant city manager for community development. Councillor Henrietta J. Davis said that because of the changing demographics, the city would need more assisted-living units and find ways to accommodate the elderly with better transportation and more accessible buildings. Several people at the meeting said they were concerned about seniors whose incomes are too high for them to qualify for federal assistance, but too low for them to live comfortably in Cambridge, which has some...