| Gimme Shelter
Due to Manhattan's exorbitant rents and arcane rental policies, students compelled to locate off-campus housing often find themselves far from Morningside Heights and less connected to social and academic goings-on on campus. Long round-trip commutes from Brooklyn, Queens, or other areas where housing is more affordable discourage some students from engaging in extracurricular activities or otherwise contributing to campus life. Other students have fewer feasible options when the University denies them housing and resort to illegal and dangerous housing arrangements, such as living in Butler Library or packing three or four students into a dorm room intended for one. Columbia should provide more housing for older full-time students by earmarking space in the planned Manhattanville campus for a GS-only dorm or by arranging a system with Columbia-owned apartment buildings.
Soldier victim in one scam, pawn in another
I was helping her out with her tuition and I got scammed," he said. "I was on a [forward operating base] most of the time, so any contact with humans helped, so I kind of got milked out of that." Hallenbeck, who was deployed from June 2006 to June 2007 in Uruzgan province in south-central Afghanistan, declined to disclose how much money he had lost — but said it was far less than the woman who fell for a photo of him. In an ironic twist of events — and as evidence that online scam artists are thriving — Hallenbeck's name and photo were used to scam a 59-year-old British woman out of thousands of dollars. Hallenbeck, a former Marine who later joined the Army National Guard, said he found out about the scam involving the British woman only when he was contacted by an Army public affairs officer, who was informed by Army Times.
Airport upgrade on the anvil
We are not getting any cooperation from the public. We have warned them repeatedly against storing water in open, which facilitates mosquito-breeding. However, in our round today we found that everybody had big tubs and buckets full of water for use, an official said. The team of the Health Department which visited Rajiv Colony said no amount of fogging could help till the public cooperated by keeping stored water covered. .
Kenya: Football Madness Grips Host Ghana
Football madness has gripped host nation Ghana. You can tell if from the moment you disembark at the Kotoka Airport in Accra. The bill boards mounted inside the airport leave you in little doubt where the 26th African Nations Cup is being held. .
Marvelous on Murray Hill
Her first project was a transom for the window over the kitchen door. Next, she tackled the lower staircase window depicting pink and red waterlilies. It took her two years, she said, with many do-overs and lots of advice from her instructor, Jim Forrester. The upper window, depicting koi and a purple waterlily, went much faster -- nine months. Mrs. Short also laid the tile around the new gas fireplace in the living room and in the kitchen floor. "On the day before my daughter's engagement party, I finished the kitchen floor," she said, rolling her eyes. Her husband, who gleefully demonstrated the gas fireplace's remote control, "was the guy in the basement with the tile saw," she said. He also installed greenhouse windows in the living room and kitchen to give her a little more space for her 200 orchids, which overwinter throughout the house.
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KETCHUM, ID (BRAIN)This fall REI and Smith Optics will join forces to bring Smiths premium Rx sunglass services to REI customers. The new offering, dubbed Rx in a Box, will provide a convenient, in-store alternative for both near- and far-sighted customers shopping for corrective sunglasses designed for use in outdoor pursuits. Rx in a Box provides REI customers with a simple two-step process in shopping for Smith Optics prescription products. First, customers purchase the custom-packaged Rx in a Box ($250 retail price). Inside they will find a unique one-time use ATM-like card containing a unique purchase code, along with details for submitting their prescription information. Second, the purchaser visits the secured Smith Optics Prescription Portal (www.smithoptics.com) and enters information from the card to order their prescription shades, eliminating the need to visit an optometrist or other licensed optical dispenser.
Product Recalls
A Chinese candy maker has recalled some of its lollipops after metal fragments were found inside at least two of the candies. Sherwood Brands recalled all of its "Pokemon Valentine's Cards and Pops" Thursday after a razor was found in one lollipop, and what appears to be a metal staple was found inside another. The candies were purchased from different stores near Lakeland, Florida, however the recall is nationwide. Authorities believe the metal was likely inserted before the candy hit store shelves. For more information, go to http://www.fda.gov/oc/po/firmrecalls/sherwood02_08.html 2/14/2008 HHR WAGON RECALL GM is issuing a recall of over 18,000 Chevrolet HHR wagons made from 2006 to 2008. The automaker found that some of the vehicles don't meet government standards for protecting occupants from head injury in a crash.
John Edwards to Quit Presidential Race
The two-time White House candidate notified a close circle of senior advisers that he planned to make the announcement at a 1 p.m. EST event in New Orleans that had been billed as a speech on poverty, according to two of his advisers. The decision came after Edwards lost the four states to hold nominating contests so far to rivals who stole the spotlight from the beginning - Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama. The former North Carolina senator will not immediately endorse either candidate in what is now a two-person race for the Democratic nomination, said one adviser, who spoke on a condition of anonymity in advance of the announcement. Edwards waged a spirited top-tier campaign against the two better-funded rivals, even as he dealt with the stunning blow of his wife's recurring cancer diagnosis.
TOUR OF CALIFORNIA
Ironically, the opening race, Sunday's prologue in Palo Alto, is a step back from the previous two Tours of California. The flat, 2.1-mile route from downtown to the middle of the Stanford campus hardly compares with the prologues the past two years in San Francisco, which featured quick ascents to the heights of Telegraph Hill and favored climbers like Leipheimer, who donned the gold jersey after each S.F. prologue. The Palo Alto race is more to the liking of Zabriskie or Cancellera or Scotland's David Millar or someone other than Leipheimer. "This (prologue) is not going to favor Levi as it has in the past two years," Birrell said. Last year's first and second stages will be repeated: a 97-mile run up the California coast from Sausalito to Santa Rosa on Monday and a 116-mile ride from Santa Rosa to Sacramento on Tuesday.
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