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...Philippines is accustomed to destruction caused by the dozen or more monsoons that take swipes at the archipelago each summer and autumn. The country is also good at rapid recoveries: in the countryside, families begin repairing their thatched and bamboo homes even before the ground has dried. Within days, trees snapped in half start showing fresh, green growth...
...finished the season by holding Penn and Yale to only 10 and three points, respectively. And though the losses of Everett, Tracy, and the other defensive stalwarts for this year’s club will certainly affect Harvard football, expect to see a number of young players continue their rapid rises to stardom next season...
...That rapid improvement in security - which has not been achieved without risk or heroism - is looking like the easy part. The next step is into uncharted territory. Now, with the military component reduced to a mere 78 personnel, and a reborn police force under the close watch of foreign advisers, the mission's youthful bureaucrats are taking charge of battered economic and development institutions. The economy has gone steadily backward: per-capita income has fallen 50% since independence in 1978. The ethnic tensions and brutality of 1998-2003 masked a chronic illness in Solomon Islands, for which there...
...Zealand is paying for education. There's also police, speed boats and vehicles, which cost a lot of money. What happens when this is withdrawn?" Down the track, Hou worries about output matching the population growth rate. At around 3% a year, it's one of the most rapid in the world, and has resulted in a youth bulge, with half the population aged under 20. Tied to this is the lack of job opportunities for those leaving school at grade 6, which means 70% of the population. "We're creating a large number of energetic people that have nothing...
Lawson stays downstairs while Bellavia scours the first floor for more insurgents. A string of rapid-fire single shots ring out. Then silence. Then a low, pained moaning. The two soldiers waiting in the courtyard call out to Bellavia, "Hey, Sergeant Bell," but get no response. "Sergeant Bell is not answering," a message is shouted back to the platoon members across the street. "We need more guys." The platoon's other staff sergeant, Colin Fitts, 26, steps up. "Let's go," he says...