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...with Omya. Part of the problem was the company's trucks, which rumble to and from the quarries all day long on two-lane roads built for country traffic, shaking windows, foundations and roadbeds. Then there's the blasting. Omya says it holds dynamiting to a minimum: just a couple of detonations a week, in late morning or midafternoon. But dynamite is dynamite, and when it blows it's hard to hide it. "I live 1,100 feet from a quarry," says Bill Church, 46, a machinist at the local General Electric plant. "Walls rattle; it's a real problem...
...maintain that movement." Soon after coming to power in late 2000, the government took the bold decision to suspend international adoptions, long criticized for encouraging abandonment, and vowed to halve the number of children in old-style residential care by the end of 2004. In January, it instituted a minimum income for poor families - those most at risk of abandoning their children. A national anti-poverty program was launched in September. And Prime Minister Adrian Nastase told Time that a new package of child protection legislation is forthcoming, including the restoration of international adoptions, but only "as a last resort...
Your reporting on migraines closed on a note of optimism, a feeling that I suspect is not shared by many who must endure migraines. For all the advances of the past few years, the reality for many of us who suffer from migraines is a minimum of several days of absolute pain each month. The new medicines may help to some extent, but the rebound effect of more headaches is a constant problem. For we who have endured the pain of migraines for decades, the cure cannot come soon enough. And while medical professionals may be more sophisticated than they...
...same group al-Qaeda whistle-blower Omar al-Faruq told the CIA he'd helped establish with Agus Dwikarna, an Indonesian businessman. Dwikarna was arrested last March at a Manila airport after security guards found plastic explosives and detonation cables in his suitcase. He's now serving a minimum 10-year sentence in the Philippines...
...urged audience members to not lose sight of domestic issues at election time and advised voters to consider issues such as minimum wage and Arctic drilling before voting...