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Susana Martinez’s re-election campaign. The list of “honored guests” for the May 21 event in the Chevy Chase, Md., home of a lobbyist includes several potential 2016 GOP presidential candidates, including U.S. Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky and Marco Rubio of Florida, U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, who chairs the Republican Governors
Committee. Other listed guests include Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus and GOP Congressional leaders, including House Speaker John Boehner, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, and several other senators, including Rob Portman of
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‘Contemporary American’ restaurant Georgia prepares to join Santa Fe scene
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Polio’s return a world health emergency, officials say Virus was near eradication two years ago; 68 cases so far in 2014 By Donald G. McNeil Jr. and Rick Gladstone The New York Times
Alarmed by the spread of polio to several fragile countries, the World Health Organization declared a global health emergency Monday for only the second time since regulations permitting it to do so were adopted in 2007. Just two years ago — after a quarter-century-long campaign that vaccinated billions of children — the paralyzing virus was near eradication; now health officials say that goal could evaporate if swift action is not taken. Pakistan, Syria and Cameroon have recently allowed the virus to spread — to Afghanistan, Iraq and Equatorial Guinea, respectively — and should take extraordinary measures to stop it, the WHO said. “Things are going in the wrong direction and have to get back on track before something terrible happens,” said Gregory Hartl, a WHO spokesman. “So we’re saying to the Pakistanis, the Syrians and the Cameroonians, ‘You’ve really got to get your acts together.’ ” The declaration, which effectively imposes travel restrictions on the three countries, represented a
INSET: From left, partner Terry Sweeney, executive chef Brett Sparman and partner Lloyd Abrams in the main dining room at Georgia. ABOVE: Nicholas Caillas installs bricks along the wall of the dining area at Georgia. PHOTOS BY CLYDE MUELLER/THE NEW MEXICAN
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anta Fe’s fine dining scene is about to get another post-recession boost. Two weeks from Friday, a restaurant called Georgia is expected to open next to the O’Keeffe Museum on Johnson Street. Lloyd Abrams, owner of Geronimo, an upscale Canyon Road eatery, bought the
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NOVOSHEPELYCHI, Ukraine — The clicking sound from Timothy Mousseau’s radiation detector slowly increased as he walked through the forest here, a few miles west of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
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supervising the floor-to-ceiling renovations. But last year’s openings of new downtownarea eateries, including Bouche, Joseph’s of Santa Fe and L’Olivier, brought some life back into this sector, he said, “and we hope Georgia follows them into this [next] frontier.” The restaurant will serve “contemporary American” food, but there won’t be a green chile in sight, “on the menu or anyplace else,”
property last year from the museum and began gutting a 100-year-old brick building that at one time served as housing for soldiers at Fort Marcy. The property in more recent years had been home to the O’Keeffe Café, which closed in 2011, in part because of the struggling economy. Abrams believes the industry is recovering. “I think the restaurant scene was getting very tired,” Abrams said Monday as he was
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As he stopped to examine a spider web on a tree branch, the display on the device showed 25 microsieverts an hour. That is typical, Mousseau said, for this area not far from Novoshepelychi, one of hundreds of villages that were abandoned after radioactive fallout from the 1986
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reactor explosion at the plant rendered a large part of this region uninhabitable. The levels of radioactivity here are far below those still found in parts of the deteriorating shelter that covers the destroyed reactor — a shelter that by 2017 will itself be covered by a huge arch that is
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intended to eliminate the threat of further radioactive contamination. But the levels in this lowland glade, where acacias and Scotch pines are interspersed with the occasional tumbledown barn, are higher than normal. In 10 days here, a person would be exposed
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