Beijing to provide accommodations for beggars, vagrants as winter comes
Vagrants and beggars in Beijing will be given accommodation and meals as the winter temperature drops to minus degree, according to the municipal relief administration center. The center announced that as of Thursday evening, staff in the city's 18 relief stations will seek out vagrants and beggars. Each station is to reinforce street patrols, check the identities of vagrants and beggars, and ...

Judge Saenz leads effort to land Navy jets
County judge L. Arnoldo Saenz has taken a lead role in the efforts to advocate the accommodations of a U.S. Navy aircraft squadron at the auxiliary landing field in Orange Grove.

Beijing to provide winter accommodations for beggars
Vagrants and beggars in Beijing will be given accommodation and meals as the temperature drops to minus degree, according to the municipal relief administration center.

Nursing center welcomes Russian residents
A local nursing facility is making accommodations for Russian residents.

36 Hours in Seattle
?Eagle? by Alexander Calder at the Olympic Sculpture Park. DOWNTOWN Seattle may have a Space Needle that pierces the clouds, a Monorail that whizzes above the streets and, most recently, the bloblike Experience Music Project designed by Frank Gehry . But until recently, it offered little else to draw Seattleites.

Study-lounge students offered hotel rooms
The Residence Life Office has offered the remaining 24 students in interim housing hotel accommodations for the rest of the semester. Since the beginning of the semester, the number of students living in study lounges dropped from 148 students, the most overflow in on-campus housing the University of Montana has seen in recent years. A deal is being negotiated with Residence Life and two ...

Potomac Confidential
Potomac Confidential fills the midday lull with discussion by Metro columnist Marc Fisher who looks at the latest news with a rigorous slicing and dicing of the issues that define who we are and where we live.

Dead Eight gears up for Sundance
Every year, Dead Eight Productions coordinates a trip to the Sundance Film Festival through the Sundance Institute's "Students at the Festival" program. From Jan. 20-25, participants are provided with transportation and accommodations in Park City, and can attend exclusive lectures and programs.

EDITORIAL: Not enough
The issue: A student who is deaf and uses a wheelchair approached administrators Monday to address concerns about accommodations available to students with disabilities. Our view: Officials need to address such concerns, rather than leaning on the excuse that Western already complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

King County cities on hunt for new jail site
A group of King County cities has begun looking for a possible jail site in Bellevue, downtown Seattle, Shoreline and an unincorporated area near Kirkland and Redmond.

Nursing center welcomes Russian residents
A Weymouth Landing nursing facility is making accommodations for Russian residents.

5K race raises $6,544 for paralyzed Greece man
Money raised by the Greece Chamber of Commerce earlier this month will help Michael Bliss return to a California rehab facility in January, where he plans to work toward his goal of walking again.

Justice O'Connor Sits on 3rd Circuit Panel Hearing UPS Challenge to ADA Class Action
Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's first case as a visiting judge on the 3rd Circuit presented a cutting-edge question in employment discrimination law: whether workers may pursue a class action to challenge companywide policies allegedly designed to thwart the Americans with Disabilities Act. The central claim in the case is that UPS has an unwritten policy of requiring ...

Hop on and Off, Just the Way the Natives Do
A New York City bus cruises past the Guggenheim Museum on Fifth Avenue. A tour of Manhattan on public buses takes about three and a half hours.

No permanent addition for extra students at Grandview
WATERLOO REGION (Nov 21, 2008) -- Grandview Public School in New Hamburg is getting the new students that parents asked for. But it's not getting permanent space built to house them.

Surfer tow-ins could end
If surfers are going to continue catching mountainous waves along the Central Coast, they'll likely have to do it the old fashioned way: paddling under their own power. The Office of National Marine Sanctuaries released its regulatory changes for California's protected shoreline Thursday.

Baby Boomers Moving In With Adult Children
Both sides can cut housing costs and swap child and elder care. But tensions are likely, too.

Despite budget crunch, districts pay for conferences
South suburban school administrators and board members will be among those heading to Chicago this weekend, most of them staying overnight in downtown hotels, for an annual statewide education conference.

Lockheed agrees to temporarily relocate Tallevast families
MANATEE ? Lockheed Martin Corp. will temporarily relocate any family or individual in Tallevast who wants to leave town while two buildings that sit on a contamination spill are dismantled, company spokesman Tom Greer announced Wednesday.

Experts fight taboo on nursing home sex
Nursing-home residents have sexual needs too. And now researchers are finding ways to educate staff on the taboo topic and provide accommodations for the elderly to shack up.