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...morning of June 2, 2006, Ahmad Mudakir, a 33-year-old factory worker from Porong, a sleepy district in eastern Java, was in his front yard tinkering with his motorbike. A little after 8 a.m. he felt a rumbling in the ground - worrying, but not wholly unexpected in this seismically fitful corner of Indonesia. What happened next was anything but expected. Mudakir watched as a neighbor, who had been inside eating breakfast, came tumbling into the street. "There was an explosion," Mudakir recalls. "Then the mud started to flow." He gaped in amazement as a geyser of scalding sludge shot...
...addition, at least some of the central administration endowment—valued at $3.4 billion in June 2006—has gone toward financial aid initiatives in the past, such as last December’s middle-income expansion...
...began last June when Amber Lee Ettinger—also known as “Obama Girl”—captured America’s hearts and minds with her music video, “I’ve Got a Crush on Obama.” The video, which features Ettinger lip-syncing and dancing next to photos of Obama, is noticeably lacking in any real political message, but nonetheless became an overnight internet sensation. This was followed by range of similarly inane videos. Some, like the “Babies for Obama” series?...
...distinction is important because immigrants with a green card or U.S. citizenship have already jumped through several legal hoops to live and work in the U.S., including a background check into any prior criminal record back home. "Legal immigrants are by definition unusually law-abiding," Rasmusen wrote last June. But Professor Daniel Mears, a Florida State University criminologist, argues that such reasoning can also be turned on its head. "If someone is here illegally," Mears asks, "why would they call attention to themselves by committing a crime...
...Donnell said. Harvard’s top two flights had to work a bit harder to maintain the shutout. After dropping her first set, 5-9, freshman Mashruwala rallied to win the next three games, 9-6, 9-2, 9-3 to win in four sets. Freshman No. 1 June Tiong split the first two sets but won the final two in convincing fashion to secure a 9-3, 6-9, 9-3, 9-5 victory over Lily Lorentzen of Stanford. “I felt June really came of age and played a great match,” Bajwa...