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...massive cockroach infestation exterminated. Although these stories sound unique and extreme, CBI is dedicated to developing a stoic quality forged through trials of adversity in each and every Harvard man and woman. The most common program is a room heater that doesn’t work in the winter but kicks on in the spring. The second most common is the placement of two to three students in a room originally designed for one, and often includes “space-saving closets” that cannot close with hangers in them.While CBI may seem like the result of mere...
February is not a great month to invade northern Iraq. The mountains of the Kurdish autonomous region are foreboding year around, which is precisely why they teem with guerilla bases of the Kurdistan Workers Party or PKK, a militant group at war with neighboring Turkey. But in winter, the mountains become an easy place for a foreign army to get stuck in the snow and die in the cold...
...Then, as if to remind the government of President Hamid Karzai just how much chaos its big neighbor to the west could create, Iran began deporting over 130,000 Afghan refugees back into Afghanistan, sparking a food and housing shortage just as the harsh winter months set in. After two decades of war, there are over 1 million Afghan refugees currently living in Iran. Afghanistan doesn't have the resources to reintegrate them in large numbers. After Karzai made a direct appeal to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran shut off the spigot. But it is unclear what price Iran might...
...INFLATION 7.1% Inflation rate in China last month, the highest in 11 years. Inflation was made worse by severe winter storms that paralyzed parts of the country's economy 18% Estimated average increase in food prices due to crop losses and transportation delays...
Sometimes a town moves only as fast as its escalators. From the subway station at Sugamo, a neighborhood in northwestern Tokyo's Toshima ward, riders ascend single file to street level at the speed of treacle on a winter day - a pace that allows for feeble eyes to adjust to the rising step and for a firm grip on both red rubber handrails. Here in "Grannies' Harajuku" (an ironic reference to a nearby district famous for its nubile trendsetters and fashion pranksters), slow is the operative word. Heads in the crowd are gray and silver, not black, pink...