Desta Hall, a youth worker at the Lighthouse Centre in Birmingham's Newtown, was one of the first people to take part in the project after meeting a teenager who broke a window at the centre.

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In particular, we welcomed the significant contribution of the United States through USAID in supporting the development of ASEAN Single Window project, which aims to develop an integrated cross-border process for customs clearance to increase trade efficiency, trade security, and competitiveness across the region.

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Mr. Alpert, a co-founder of the Downtown Community Television Center, considered the project not only a character study but a window into America's shifting fortunes.

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"The great thing about ALMA is that it will open up a genuinely new window on the universe, " said Dr. John Richer, an astrophysicist at Cambridge University and ALMA project scientist.

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