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...just over two weeks ago, at an oil-truck stop in Warri, was activated by a cell phone and came just days after China's Hu met with Nigeria's leaders. The bomb was "the final warning" before fresh attacks on oil workers, storage facilities, bridges, offices and other "soft, oil-industry targets," a mend official wrote in an e-mail to news organizations. But it was also, the e-mail said, a message to "the Chinese government and its oil companies to steer well clear of the Niger Delta. The Chinese government by investing in stolen crude places...
Under pressure from advocacy groups, school boards, and state legislatures, the three largest soft-drink companies announced last week that they would stop selling soft drinks and other sugary beverages in U.S. schools. The agreement, brought about by negotiations between the Alliance for a Healthier Generation and the beverage companies Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, and Cadbury Schweppes, will go into effect beginning next fall and will affect over 35 million children. Under the agreement, milk, juice, and bottled water will replace soft drinks, and their portion sizes will be capped. Many individual school districts and states have already taken steps...
...club and leave the important decisions to our elected leaders. Joel Epperson Birmingham, Alabama, U.S. Why didn't the generals come forth with their criticism earlier? Competent leadership in the military has been declining ever since our nation went to the all-volunteer force. We Americans have become so soft and liberal that we don't have the guts anymore to stand and be counted. The same is true in our civilian agencies as well. Clair Mendenhall Providence, Utah, U.S. Comrade Hu Comes Calling Re your story on Chinese president Hu Jintao's trip to the U.S. [April...
...addition to offering food, the top floor of Hilles will boast a variety of other student amenities according to the most recent plans. Soft seating and tables both within the coffee bar area and along the hall that adjoins the café will allow for group work and individual study, while large rooms along the sides of the floor will serve as additional performance or rehearsal space for groups. The conference rooms along the corridor opposite the coffee bar will provide student organizations with formal meeting space...
...like we were going to get the day going.”But Haviland and Princeton ace Erik Stiller cruised through the middle innings as the score remained 5-3 until the eighth, when the Tigers broke through yet again. DeGeorge dropped his third hit of the game, a soft looping liner, into shallow center field, plating two. Sophomore Brad Unger then came on for Haviland, who, all told, allowed seven earned runs on eleven hits—by far his worst showing of the Ivy League season—and gave up a two-run ground-rule double...