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Last June the cash-strapped Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) put out a request for bids to build on 50,000 square feet over the train tracks...
...hundreds of thousands were fed and medicated in Somalia in 1992, for example, could not counterbalance the deaths of 18 servicemen and women, particularly not in a mission that seemed trivial for America’s national interest. Fear of another Somalia kept President Clinton at bay while France and Britain fumbled in Bosnia; and, unsure of itself, the world remained silent about Rwanda’s 1994 genocide. Only late in the Balkan War did Clinton even begin to consider the concept of military ultimatums, which, when issued, ended the berserk conflict within three months...
TORONTO At the Prada boutique on Bloor Street West, a salesperson confided that the best-selling gray wool pants "look no different than what men on Bay Street are wearing." That hasn't stopped locals from snapping up Prada's menswear look for fall, right...
...forests are good candidates for thinning. Among the prime examples are the lodgepole pine forests that occupy higher elevations across the mountain West. Lodgepole pines, which are thin-barked, flourish only in areas where sufficient moisture and cool temperatures keep fires at bay for long periods of time. There they grow quite densely together--so densely, in fact, that numerous trees are shaded out by more vigorous competitors. These dead and dying trees, intermingled with low-limbed spruce and fir, add a vertical dimension to the fuels structure that one day will carry fire into the canopy--as happened across...
...epicenter of small-plate dining is the Bay Area, where out-of-work dotcommers are seeking to reconcile their gourmet habits with shrinking budgets. Diners can sample rabbit-sausage flatbread for $12 at A Cote in Oakland, or they can snack on stuffed dates with chorizo and blue cheese for $8 at the Spanish-Moroccan Baraka in San Francisco. The Russian Hill restaurant Pesce last year shifted away from traditional full-service Italian food to small plates in the Venetian cicchetti style, like swordfish rolls or octopus-and-potato salad...