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Exiting the international airport in Colombo can be alarming: uniformed men tote guns, and there are acres of razor wire. Colombo's quaint commercial center is clogged with police checkpoints. President Chandrika Kumaratunga lives there; having survived an attempted assassination bombing three years ago, she's not taking any chances. In fact, there's little to fear. Nobody worries about bombs going off in Sri Lanka these days. You can travel just about anywhere on the island: to the northern peninsula of Jaffna or to the eastern beaches near Trincomalee, areas that were off limits for most of the past...
...Neill exclaims as she stands in the doorway of the Channel 6 newsroom. She takes four confident steps toward the teenage mutant ninja turtle. Before she reaches him, however, she is intercepted by Splinter, Michelangelo’s sensei. Smiling knowingly, the mutant ninja rat fondles the trip wire that he is holding. “Ohh,” April gasps as she drops to her knees with nothing to break her fall except Michelangelo’s seemingly androgynous genital area. Nothing can thwart Michelangelo’s throbbing turtlehood as it breaks through his turtle shell...
...could be the hassle and expense of adapting to ever changing regulations that drives customers to Protegent's door. Even before the federal Patriot Act took effect last April, for example, Broker Audit was ready to handle new anti-money-laundering tracking requirements (like watching out for unusual wire transfers in and out of brokerage accounts). Coming up: tracking of unnecessarily high mutual-fund commissions, based on selling inappropriate types of shares to certain investors--a measure that will be required by the National Association of Securities Dealers later this year. So many opportunities for mischief--and sales...
...came down to the wire,” said Jack J. Sadule ’03, a friend of Walker’s who was present, “He won by about two bites...
...structures are made from materials ranging from to plywood and wooden joints to wire, bolts, aluminum sheets and large, sturdy paper tubes which resemble the kind that hold toilet paper. The paper tubes, which Ban has dubbed “evolved wood,” may quite possibly be the perfect building material: they are cheap, recyclable, capable of bearing large loads, can be quickly assembled and can be made waterproof and fire-resistant. Structurally speaking, the paper tubes and the plywood, both lightweight and relatively flexible, form the bulk of the structure while metal or wood reinforce joints...