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...knew it was going to be an awful budget,” said Wolf. “But it’s worse than we thought.”Cambridge City Councillor Sam Seidel said that Cambridge has coped well with local aid cuts thus far and has avoided mass layoffs and drastic reductions in services.But with yesterday’s House budget announcement, Seidel said that Cambridge now has to make tough decisions about how to absorb the cuts. According to Seidel, this is the largest cut in local aid in the state’s history...
...shirts staged a mass rally in Bangkok on April 8, during which Thaksin, addressing the crowd by video phone, urged them to rise up in a "people's revolution." The red shirts subsequently stormed a summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Pattaya, forcing its cancellation and the evacuation of regional leaders, attempted to physically attack Prime Minister Abhisit on two occasions, and launched a sometimes violent an chaotic protest in the capital, during which they burned buses, set off small bombs, threatened to blow up a gas tanker, blocked traffic on major roads, and shot and killed...
...Mass death, needless to say, is bad enough for the corals themselves. But it also bodes ill for other species, such as bivalves and sponges. Corals help diminish turbulence in the water, making it easier for other species to snatch their own food and for the larvae of those species to stay closer to the mother colonies that feed them. "We call [corals] the engineers of the ecosystem," says Ribes. "Without them, other invertebrates won't be able eat either. It's a chain reaction...
...York stems from an inability to see themselves elsewhere: They’ve always assumed they would live in New York, and so they limit their searches for jobs and graduate schools to the city in their crystal ball. But that sort of logic—and the mass migration that results from it—is flawed because of the chicken-or-egg scenario it presents: Graduates go to New York because it’s the only place they see themselves, but it’s the only place they see themselves because everyone up and moves there...
...Falsely accused by Stalin of mass collaboration with the Nazi German invaders, the entire Crimean Tatar population was loaded onto trains and deported to Central Asia over a period of just three days in May 1944. Almost half would die over the following year. Twenty years since they first began to return, there are over 250,000 Tatars in Crimea, around 13% of the population. (See pictures of Europeans marking the defeat of Nazi Germany...