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...create 20,000 new jobs in the military, police and state oil companies, do little to appease feelings of neglect. "We have not received money from the federal government since last September. It makes things very difficult," Usen told Time last month. Many see the nddc as mere window dressing. In March, a bomb was thrown into the car park of its Port Harcourt office, and plastic explosives were later smuggled into the building in an apparent attempt to blow...
...fear. Nosh's photographs document the daily struggle to block out the violence. Sometimes the carnage seemed a world away; at other times it was all too close. After a roadside bomb went off near the house, family members got a ringside view of smoke and pandemonium from their window...
...much, such as designing the landscape to reduce visibility to nearby homes. It also mentions measures to appease residents that include making the site more accessible to them by constructing pedestrian trails and improving site maintenance. But Beitler said the measures are merely “a series of window-dressings.” “We recognize that [the development is necessary for the Arboretum] and would like to support it, “ he said. “But we cannot do that without any guards against future expansions...
...significance of various uncertainties in the grand scheme of the billion-dollar FAS budget.“It would seem scary to imagine your checking account being out of balance by ten million dollars,” King said, sitting with his back to the floor-to-ceiling window of his office in the new, $150-million-CGIS. “But if you had a billion dollars, you would not notice.”‘SAVING SHOELACES’The financial situation has forced the administration to rethink its funding priorities, to the dismay of some professors.Kirby...
...won’t find any record of Chauhan’s and Bray’s union at the Cambridge courthouse. Opponents of same-sex unions warn that Massachusetts’ law will undermine the sanctity of marriage. But the Facebook has already thrown sanctity out the window. Chauhan and Bray say they are best friends, and that they use their relationship-status designation on Facebook as a joke. “Girls especially like to publicly declare who their best friends are,” Chauhan said. “I am in a relationship...