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...most formidable task was navigating the sea of regulations governing Peruvian forestry, and somehow making use of thousands of pages harvested from the very trees they were intended to protect...
...many as 400,000 kids?5% of the national student body?belong to loosely affiliated gangs. The gang members call themselves iljin ("top rankers") and are involved in organized bullying, extortion and sometimes sex crimes. The Education Ministry says Jong's findings are exaggerated, but officials established a task force this month to combat violence in schools. One indication of how entrenched the gangs have become is that the ministry said it could take up to five years to eradicate them. The problem "is rampant and it's getting more extreme and outlandish," says Yim Jae Yon, a counselor...
...humdrum task you need to do over and over? Want to tell your computer to download all mom's emails to your iPod? Automator makes such jobs, well, automatic. One window (searchable with Spotlight) displays all tasks your various applications can do. Drag and drop them in order into another window, and presto-you're programming without the need to learn a scary computer language...
...menial task that most would dread quickly turned into a bonding opportunity as the BMF board members, clad in identical club T-shirts, bumped shoulders with the pre-frosh, swapping stories and laughs...
...continues to withhold from sending troops to the troubled region. Responsibility has, instead, shifted to the AU, whose peacekeeping troops’ mandate is yet to be ratified by a majority of the states. This will be the first deployment of AU troops and these soldiers have the daunting task of policing a region the size of France on a mandate to observe and report that all parties are observing the ceasefire agreements signed in Abuja...