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...grand?and cumbersome?reconstruction plan of the sort devised for Aceh after the 2004 tsunami. In some areas life is already returning to normal. Malioboro, Yogyakarta's main tourist drag, is open for business again. "Visitors are slowly returning, but they are mostly local," says Suhartono, a batik vendor. "We hope it won't be like Bali [after the bombings], with foreigners afraid to come...
...recycler that takes the trouble to actually recycle? One simple test: ask how many pounds of glass it sends out each year. Because of the toxic lead in glass cathode-ray-tube (CRT) monitors, dealing with them properly is the most important part of the recycling process. "If your vendor refuses to show a CRT-glass rate, you should be concerned," says Robin Ingenthron, who runs Good Point Recycling in Middlebury, Vt. He also suggests asking for an audit trail...
...bring young Jim Byrne to the park when he was on duty during games. In those days, Byrne remembered, the park routinely had only 5,000 fans on hand, although the attendance began to rise after the 1967 Impossible Dream season. After spending years in his teens as a vendor at Fenway, it seemed that things had finally come full circle for Byrne, now a proud father of a Harvard team leader. The younger Byrne, who is recovering from season-ending surgery on his meniscus, watched from the stands. Joe Mackey, father of leftfielder Chris Mackey, fondly remembered when...
...virtually sealed the borders, citing security concerns, goats ate the tomatoes instead. Because the border closings prevent imports as well, anxious U.N. workers in Gaza City fretted they'd soon run out of food to hand out to even more anxious refugees. Walid Safiz, a 28-year-old vendor selling sundries at the Friday market in Gaza City, said business was down 80% because, without international funding, the bankrupt government can't pay some 160,000 civil servants. "If they don't get salaries, they don't buy anything," he observes. And while Hamas continues to observe a cease-fire...
...blocked commerce by virtually sealing the borders, citing continued attacks by Palestinian militants. The closings also prevent almost all imports. Now anxious U.N. workers in Gaza City fret that they will soon run out of food to hand out to even more anxious Palestinian refugees. Walid Safiz, 28, a vendor selling sundries at the Friday market in Gaza City, said business was down 80% because, with international financing and subsidies frozen, the government can't pay its roughly 160,000 civil servants. Says Safiz: "If they don't get salaries, they don't buy anything." On Saturday, Palestinian cops, angry...