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...Square where you can use up your printing and laundry budget includes a few more retail stores in addition to eating establishments—Crimson Cash is now an acceptable form of currency at Berks Shoes and Gnomon Copy. Several other culinary businesses have joined the ranks as well: Chipotle Mexican Grill, Harvest Co-op Market, Om Restaurant, and Shabu Ya Restaurant. Our map of Crimson Cash locations has been updated accordingly...
...fishing and transportation. The biggest problem, however, is not the water. It's the salt. During the dry season, when channels and tributaries run dry, seawater can creep more than 18 miles (30 km) inland. Vietnam has installed a series of sluice gates to hold back high tides as well as control annual monsoon flooding. This has allowed farmers to switch between growing rice in the wet season and raising shrimp in the brackish waters in the dry. The result has been more-effective land use and higher crop yields, and a doubling of farmers' incomes in the Delta since...
...north, Vietnam has been busy building hydropower dams as well. The government recently released enough water from those projects to help farmers in the Red River Delta with spring planting. Now with reservoir levels in the north at critical lows, the state-owned electricity company says it can't let go of much more; power demand is expected to break records as temperatures soar this month. Even with the small amount released, Nguyen Van Thang, director of the agriculture department in Vinh Phuc province, is not hopeful. High temperatures and evaporation are the enemy. "Even if farmers bail every single...
...Daniel Schneider, 24, both Germans; Adem Yilmaz, a 31-year-old Turk; and Atilla Selek, a 25-year-old Turkish-German - had confessed to all of the charges against them. Prosecutors detailed how they had plotted to bomb U.S. military bases in Germany, such as Ramstein Air Base, as well as places like discos and pubs where U.S. service personnel were known to go. The attacks were planned for October 2007, just before a parliamentary vote was scheduled on extending Germany's troop deployment in Afghanistan. Had the men succeeded, Breidling said there would have been "a monstrous bloodbath, primarily...
...government's hard-line has not weakened even as the country struggled through the transport paralysis. Morales announced that he would send Parliament a corresponding zero tolerance law for individual and non-professional drivers as well. But Casillo and his colleagues weren't fazed. "We are prepared to strike until the government agrees to some changes," he stated. But the drivers found that their real adversary was not the government but an angry populace. La Paz's streets were quiet on the second day of the strike, except for the pedestrians' railing against the "striking drunkards." Radio and TV call...