| Land mines in Dreamland
The welcome embrace of sleep most of us cherish and recognize as good medicine can become elusive as we age. Tales abound of Grandpa rising at 4 a.m. or Grandma getting up at all hours of the night.
While in his mid-60s, Leland Fager of Milton-Freewater found the stories true.Previously, the retiree from Alaska took for granted a solid chunk of uninterrupted sack time, he said. Having spent years in jobs requiring a high level of alertness, sleep was as important as safety gear.When the zzzzs began dissipating, everything changed.Now 68, Fager recalled those nights as a state of "half-asleep, half-awake ... and thinking about tomorrow."I was tired all day."Worse, his wife of 43 years was none too happy. .
China can build things. Why can't India?
India's top science and technology official is in China, making excuses about why his country's infrastructure is so shoddy. Shanghai has brilliant new skyscrapers and museums and parks and trains – and Bombay can't manage to have a decent airport. According to Minister for Science and Technology Kapil Sibal, it's all because of democracy. “There is a different model of growth in our country," Sibal told reporters in Beijing, according to this report from wire service PTI carried on Indian portal Rediff.com. “We can't, for example, build a Pudong overnight." Well, neither did the Chinese. Pudong today is the result of more than a decade's worth of work and planning and investment. The place is hardly paradise; Pudong can feel overwhelming, especially along the district's broad boulevard.
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The tribe does not specify how much of that $172 million it seeks from government agencies. Under the pact, announced Friday, the tribe would pay the town at least $11 million a year, $4 million more than previously agreed, by adding revenue from a hotel room tax. The payment, to compensate the town for hosting millions of casino visitors, would be $7 million the first year and increase by 3.1 percent a year indefinitely. But the fine print of the 45-page deal, posted on the town's website yesterday afternoon, also says that the payment cannot exceed 2 percent of the casino's net revenues in any year... Read the rest of this Globe story here. See PDF of complete "Intergovernmental agreement between the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe and the town of Middleborough" document here.
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