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...fact, no sites were added to the endangered list at this year's WHC conclave. Last year the Committee said it would de-list the Elbe Valley in the German city of Dresden if construction proceeded on a four-lane bridge that activists said would damage the valley's delicate landscape. Now that bridge is under construction - but the Committee ruled it would "give Dresden more time" in the hope that local opposition could reverse the damage...
...there's more here than meets the eye, so we'll keep going. Start with the simple fact that a truly unified political party doesn't need a unity rally. It's a long, slow bus ride down a winding two-lane road, over hills, through pines and pastures, to reach this remote New England village. The fuel that drives the bus is worry, and the worry stems from division...
...Spain discovered in its difficult - and difficult to watch - 4-2 penalty kick shootout win in the quarter-finals of Euro 2008, trying to get past an Italian team committed to a defensive scheme is like playing in ski boots filled with linguini carbonara. The pace slows. Every passing lane seems clogged, and there are more defenders in the penalty area than pawns on a chess board...
...that anymore." What they do is the same thing other kids do, which is to say they spend more and more time inside, in front of a screen--even more so since their homes are a lot likelier than those of suburban kids to lie next to a four-lane interstate or some other decidedly unsuitable place to play. "Kids need a support system for activity," says David Hartley, director of the Maine Rural Health Center. "And in rural areas, too often they don't have that...
...fashion magazines of the time had a singular image of his peer group, and it was not a good one: hollow-cheeked and sallow-skinned with the lank look of a hungry junkie. That wasn't McGinley's crowd--healthy, happily sexual, not above living in the extreme fast lane sometimes but otherwise...