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2.0,If I wasn't working here.
2.0,"I've got more than a job; I've got a career."""
2.0,He has no time to waste.
2.0,"With the help of friends like you, Goodwill has continued to adapt our services to meet the human needs of our changing society."
2.0,Real results.
2.0,Your support helps provide real solutions.
2.0,"The gift that I am asking you to make will be used to continue our mission of helping people prepare for, find and keep jobs."
2.0,James M. McClelland President
3.0,"At last, he has found success in a job that he loves."
3.0,Their successes at work also saved taxpayers more than three-quarters of a million dollars in public assistance.
2.0,"The savings are counted in more ways than dollars and cents, however."
3.0,Your gift will help give new meaning to the word success -- for people who have seldom had reason to use the word.
1.0,Michael was born with cerebral palsy.
1.0,His most recent job lasted only a year before cut-backs eliminated his position.
2.0,He resorted to public assistance dollars to survive.
2.0,"Finally, Michael called Goodwill."
2.0,"Some are blind, deaf or have other physical disabilities."
2.0,"Sincerely,"
2.0,He went to the Center Township Trustee for food stamps until he could find a job and a place to live.
2.0,Please take a few minutes to send a donation to help one or more of our children successfully cross that threshold into the future.
2.0,"To help them establish themselves in the community, the Pleasant Run Emancipation fund was begun in 1993 by private donors who wanted to provide a measure of financial support for those leaving our programs."
2.0,"Today, we serve children and families with a multitude of problems: emotional, physical, psychological and sexual abuse."
2.0,"Little ones, like Baby Jessica, caught in the struggle between adoptive and birth parents."
2.0,Pleasant Run Children's Homes began serving children nearly 130 years ago.
2.0,"They leave Pleasant Run, generally, ready and able to contribute to society."
2.0,"June 26, 1995"
2.0,"Federal, state and local governments are freezing or withdrawing much-needed funding sources for people who are truly in need."
2.0,It may help a family stay together.
2.0,Let our families and children know that you want them to have the same kinds of memories of the holidays you will have.
2.0,Dear Friends of Pleasant Run:
2.0,"Sincerely,"
1.0,They do not have the resources necessary to purchase gifts or food for a holiday meal.
2.0,You can make a difference in a child's life.
2.0,"June 1, 1998 BOYS & Girls Club OF INDIANAPOLIS"
2.0,Please read the enclosed brochure for more information on the wonderful Super Summer Safari Camp!
2.0,Questions?
2.0,"Saturday, September 20,1997, from 2:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m., marks a special day, as Jameson Camp will hold its first ever Jameson Grill."
2.0,"The only fund raising event in the world where you can bring your entire family, other employees, or maybe even your neighbors."
2.0,P.S.
2.0,"And not just during the summer, but throughout the year."
2.0,"The end result will be kids who have a better understanding of and vision for their own future, be it college or a career."
2.0,I know that our staff and committee members will be happy to go with you to talk to these group if you need their help.
3.0,We're at an exciting juncture and it won't be long until we start seeing solid results from our efforts.
2.0,"July 30, 1999"
3.0,"Your gift will enable CCI to provide these and other necessary services at a neighborhood level, face-to-face, where it counts."
2.0,Dear Name:
3.0,"Social Development and Recreation for children, youth and adults."
2.0,"As a provider of youth services, MCCOY, Inc. is here to support your valuable efforts to develop young people."
2.0,"Recently, through a lot of hard work and alliances with organizations like yours, some steps have been taken in our community that will help young people continue to be involved in positive activities."
2.0,"One, IndyGo in April adopted a much-needed policy that all young people under the age of 19 may ride on their buses at half the normal fare all year long."
2.0,I have enclosed a packet of information about MCCOY and its work as well as an application with various options for supporting the youth of our community.
2.0,I will call you in a few weeks to discuss your level of interest.
2.0,"As you begin that process this year, I would like to ask you to consider helping young people in Marion County toward more positive youth development by becoming a supporter of the Marion County Commission on Youth, Inc."
2.0,McCoy has only one interest: the well being of Marion County's young people.
2.0,"It retained, however, the same mission with which it had been charged from its inception: to serve as a catalyst for effective, coordinated, and collaborative service delivery to youth in our community."
2.0,John T. Neighbours Philip B. Roby President Treasurer
2.0,Dear Name:
3.0,A Providers Council and a Youth Coalition are building relationships that will hopefully bear great fruit in the years to come.
2.0,One of us will call you to discuss how your company can become an important highly visible partner with the JCC in support of our scholarship programs.
3.0,Thank you in advance for your consideration.
2.0,"Judy Laikin, Chair Auction '99 Sponsor Committee"
2.0,But caring adults like you can reach out and help.
2.0,Big Sisters helps bridge that gap by providing children with the resources they need -- Big Sisters volunteers.
3.0,"Today, we are offering you the opportunity to help change a life."
2.0,"As a Matchmaker you will receive a description of ""your match"" and be identified as a Matchmaker on a plaque in the Big Sisters office, in the agency newsletter and annual report."
2.0,Over 235 girls are currently waiting for a Big Sister.
2.0,"Former Little Sister Amy, now 18-years old, is a testament to the Big Sisters program."
2.0,"""I was matched with my Big Sister in June of 1992."
3.0,"Since then, she and I have grown very close and I have been able to experience lots of new things."
2.0,"We go to movies, dinner, concerts, and other stuff like that, but I have also been able to participate in charity events and fundraiser type things."
2.0,"It will also be used to help maintain the infrastructure that fosters and supports the development of effective relationships, including volunteer orientation and training and ongoing supervision and support by a professional staff."
2.0,"Name Address City, ST Zip"
2.0,"The Urban Mission Branch is reaching out to middle school youth with programs based on caring, honesty, respect and responsibility for themselves and others."
2.0,"The Iraqi government has agreed to let U.S. Rep. Tony Hall visit the country next week to assess a humanitarian crisis that has festered since the Gulf War of 1990, Hall's office said Monday."
2.0,"Iraq says the United States and Britain hold up delivery of needed supplies, using their clout in the United Nations."
2.0,"""It was very, very important"" to compel Iraq to rid itself of weapons of mass destruction so that ""it cannot use or export them to other countries,"" he told Associated Press Television News."
2.0,But he insisted the international community can do a much better job in helping Iraq deal with its economic and health problems.
2.0,"Indonesia is already receiving $400,000 in the current fiscal year for civilian training programs and is to receive a like amount next year; and the United States expects to provide an additional $16 million this year to train police officers in counterterrorism."
2.0,"The Malaysian foreign minister, Syed Hamid Albar, later told local reporters that Powell had proposed that American and Malaysian officials review the idea of forming a regional training center in Malaysia to coordinate antiterrorism activities."
2.0,"Powell said his discussions with Mahathir ""touched on the case"" of his former deputy, Anwar Ibrahim, who is serving a 15-year sentence on charges of sodomy and abuse of power after trials that Powell said the United States had ""always felt"" were flawed."
2.0,"In recent months, Microsoft has announced partnerships with wireless carriers like Verizon and Sprint PCS."
2.0,"With the Marlins Floyd bated .287, hit 18 home runs and drove in 57 runs."
1.0,"""There was death in D.C. throughout the '80s and into the '90s, and there was death everywhere,"" said Starke, who was reared in New Rochelle, N.Y., and played at Columbia."
1.0,"""It wasn't like New York's or Boston's organized crime. It was kids shooting kids. It was a 14-year-old from R Street who got his crew of six together and ran their drug block killing another 14-year-old and his crew from a block away. And from the beginning I could see that it was all about jobs. I could see that you needed the private sector involved."""
3.0,"The school, now in its third year, has been so successful that it recently received a $2 million grant from Congress."
2.0,The program is coordinated with the University of the District of Columbia.
2.0,"So, Starke matched a problem with a problem and found a solution."
2.0,"Angela Nafis, 47, of Ecuador, has been in the school for a year."
2.0,"""I did a lot of walking, got an interview and got a job and an opportunity of a lifetime,"" Orellana said."
2.0,The city has talked with Starke about using his students for some vehicle repairs.
2.0,"The 1933 double eagle, a $20 gold piece with a mysterious history that involves a president, a king and a Secret Service sting operation, was auctioned Tuesday last night for a record price for a coin, $7.59 million, nearly double the previous record."
2.0,"Sotheby's partner in the one-lot auction was Stack's Rare Coins, with which it shared the customary 15 percent commission."
2.0,"""So the auction was almost like the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the convention,"""
2.0,"Torricelli also insisted that he had not done any unusual favors for Chang, who first turned to the senator in 1995 for help in winning the repayment of some $71 million he said he was then owed in a failed business deal with the North Korean government."
2.0,"Your acceptance on loan from Mr. Chang of bronze statues (eagle and bronco buster) for display in your Senate office under your office's policy of accepting the loan of home state artwork was not consistent with Senate rules governing such loans, evidenced poor judgment, displayed a lack of due regard for the Senate rules and resulted in a violation of the Senate Gifts Rule (35) and, consequently, a violation of your public disclosure obligations under Senate rules."
2.0,"Your failure to act to prevent the acceptance of or to pay for gifts of earrings from Mr. Chang to individuals (your sister, an employee and a friend) in your home at Christmas on the mistaken belief that such items were of little value or were not gifts to you under the circumstances, evidenced poor judgment, displayed a lack of due regard for Senate rules and resulted in a violation of the Senate Gifts Rule (35) and, consequently, a violation of your public disclosure obligations under Senate Rule 34."
2.0,"A photograph of the candidate standing in his Army uniform next to his mother is shown, then the advertisement shifts to McCall talking about education, while images of the candidate looking at a computer screen with a small child and of him surrounded by children appear."
2.0,"On the basis of thousands of pages of information developed in an earlier federal inquiry into Torricelli's activities, the committee chastised him for using poor judgment and disregarding Senate rules in his dealings with the former donor, David Chang."
2.0,"""Time Magazine called his life an American dream. Carl McCall, Army lieutenant, state senator, ambassador to the United Nations, school board president, Citibank vice president, and one of the most effective comptrollers in New York history."""
2.0,"He had the title of ambassador when he was at the United Nations, but he was not the chief of the American mission."
2.0,"The New Jersey Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned the death sentence of Leslie Ann Nelson, a transsexual go-go dancer who killed a police officer and an investigator with an AK-47 rifle."
2.0,"Justice James R. Zazzali and Justice Virginia Long said in a separate opinion that in addition to the reasons given in the majority opinion, also written by Zazzali, they believed the death penalty would constitute cruel and unusual punishment because of Nelson's history of emotional disturbance."
2.0,"Like every other government institution, they hew closely to Mubarak's wishes."
2.0,"""a witness whose credibility has been called into question by the Department of Justice, a United States District judge and his own conduct."""
1.0,"While hardly the worst example of dictatorship in the Middle East, Egypt is one of the saddest."
2.0,"Pataki openly questioned the Port Authority's requirement that any plan for the site replace all the office, hotel and retail square footage lost in the attack on Sept. 11."
2.0,"But he ignores emissions of carbon dioxide, the main global warming gas."
2.0,We also agree that the law needs streamlining.
1.0,"""poor judgment"""
2.0,"Finally, the committee appeared to have discounted Torricelli's contention that he was not responsible for expensive earrings that Chang had given as Christmas gifts to his sister, Stern and Balaban."
2.0,"The analysis, which was assembled from banking and credit records, income-tax returns and congressional financial-disclosure forms, showed by March of 1998, Torricelli's cash expenditures were more than $22,000 in excess of the cash he had generated from checks and automatic-teller machines, an official who has reviewed the document said."
2.0,"Pascoe said, ""Only then will New Jersey voters be able to decide Torricelli's fitness for office."""
2.0,Enclosures
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2.0,To say that they could not have done otherwise is a bold lie by Moore's critics.
2.0,"""Moore works by depriving you of context and guiding your mind to fill the vacuum -- with completely false ideas."
2.0,"a) Moore clearly states that ""before he came to Flint"", Heston gave an interview."
1.0,"After the Flint rally comes a brief TV interview with Heston, where he is asked about Kayla Rolland (again, clear evidence that the local media in Flint raised questions about the NRA's presence), then an inteview with country prosecutor Arthur Busch, entirely ignored by critics of the film, who also mentions Heston's presence as notable, and refers to the immediate reactions of ""people from all over America"", gun owners/groups who, according to him, reacted aggressively to warnings of having guns accessible to children, much like spanking advocates react aggressively when anti-spankers point to a case of a child being killed or severely injured by a beating."
2.0,"In poor areas, the highly profitable drug business obviously is often seen as the last resort."
2.0,Never mind that the Taliban continued selling opium in spite of the deal.
2.0,"Statistics are Moore's weakest point, and it is surprising that his critics don't dwell on them longer."
2.0,That's because they know all too well that Moore is correct: The United States have a far greater homicide rate (both gun- and non-gun) than most other first world countries.
2.0,"""That's right. I could buy as much ammunition as I wanted, in Canada."
2.0,"If Moore simply chose not to show how he revealed his identification to the salesperson, there is nothing fraudulent about that."
1.0,"Similarly, the main motivation for the crusades (beyond the promise of wealth) was that Christians were supposedly being slaughtered and had to be saved."
2.0,"His next project has the working title ""Fahrenheit 9/11: The temperature at which freedom burns"", and he intends to launch it shortly before the next US presidential election."
2.0,"After all, the same kind of PR blitz was started against the previous record-holding documentary: ""Roger & Me"" by Michael Moore."
2.0,This text is in the public domain.
2.0,It is no more so than any other successful documentary of the last decades.
2.0,"In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, linked from your site, an employee claims that the gun would have been ""normally"" picked up at another dealer."
2.0,There is nothing inaccurate whatsoever about the bank scene.
2.0,"This is perhaps the criticism repeated the most often, and it also the most inaccurate."
2.0,"First, the actual quotes from the film are often reproduced incorrectly."
2.0,"""I guess I don't see that specific connection because the missiles that you're talking about were built and designed to defend us from somebody else who would be aggressors against us."""
2.0,"Moore is not from Colorado -- his question is generic, not meant to refer specifically to the Lockheed Martin plant in question."
2.0,"However, critics of Moore have cleverly ignored McCollum's response and presented Moore as spreading lies about the Lockheed plant."
2.0,"The ""visual of a billboard and a narration"" is viewed by you as evidence that Moore is trying to somehow tie the two events together, when in reality, it is quite obvious that he does it to separate the introduction of Heston from his speech in Denver."
2.0,I should know.
2.0,Just saying....it seems I have more life now then you have and we know how little I get out!
2.0,"I don't remember if you've made noises here before about turning these into a book, but if you do you've got at least one reader."
2.0,"It may also be that I remember the scene of their writing, which would have been in the old apartment, i.e. the place I barely remember ever having lived in anymore."
2.0,"If you have absolutely nothing better to do on a Friday night, feel free to scan through my 2009 archives and tell me what you think should be included in the ""Best of"" post."
2.0,That I can access detailed information about events I have no right remembering in detail is another matter entirely.
2.0,"I remember him being ineffective, and as it turns out, he was ."
2.0,"Now that I remember him, which I didn't before, I remember him as being the pitcher who'd pitched for 1) the team the Mets faced to get to the '86 Series and 2) the one they faced in it."
2.0,But burned out toward the end.
2.0,"Having given up on watching the actual sport, mention of baseball now only sparks memories of The Old Man and the Sea and the old time baseball writers."
2.0,"Ants themselves rely primarily on chemical information taken in through their antennae, and to mimic this, Antie will have chemical sensing and emitting “stalks” with which to both interact with other ants (who may be surprised to find an ant without antennae) and take in chemical information."
2.0,Such a robot would allow for both long-term studies of ant-robot interactions and studies of task-switching in the robots.
2.0,"Returning successful patrollers have an even greater effect on foraging activity: foragers will not leave the nest unless a patroller returns (Gordon, 2002), and the rate of foraging in a colony can be controlled by rolling glass beads coated with cuticular hydrocarbons extracted from patrollers into the nest (Gordon & Greene, 2003; Greene & Gordon, 2007)."
2.0,"Midden seems to be marked in some olfactory way, since removing midden from nests makes them more likely to be invaded by other species (Gordon, 35)."
2.0,"All of these chemical receptors will be arranged in an array on a pair of chemical stalks, with four of each type of receptor per stalk."
2.0,"These will be located in different places: the sprayer for the successful patroller pheromone will be located on the rear at the base of Antie, corresponding to the glands that researchers believe the ants drag along behind them to mark returning paths, while the successful forager and cuticular hydrocarbon sprayers will be located on the skirt."
2.0,The Behavior
2.0,Antie will be equipped to navigate in this environment and will be designed to find seeds in sandy soil.
2.0,"The orientation and distance should be calculable by the polarization pattern according to the system set up by Lambrinos, et al."
2.0,"In-nest navigation will be a function of the temperature, read by Antie’s thermometer and a light source."
2.0,"Antie will also need to follow several different kinds of chemical gradient trails: it will need to track the trails left by successful patrollers, and localize the source of food-odors and midden-odors."
2.0,"When both sonar sensors are stimulated simultaneously, Antie will check hydrocarbon inputs and determine whether the detected object is a nestmate."
2.0,"In order to perform both of these functions, Antie will need a subroutine to explore in a zig-zag fashion, as harvester ants do (Gordon, 34)."
2.0,"Workers probably switch to patrolling based on their perceived life expectancy and as a function of a gene whose expression changes between young and old ants, and this is easily emulated using a clock pulse counter in Antie’s CPU that will count its “age” since last boot."
2.0,"The sonar will constantly be detecting nearby objects and initiate an escape maneuver when their inputs pass a certain threshold of stimulation, and the bump sensors will, when depressed, also initiate the escape function."
2.0,"Antie would use a system for processing the input from its polarization compass based on the compass designed by Lambrinos, Moller, Labhart, Pfeifer and Wehner in 2000, consisting of two photodiodes with blue filters and polarizers."
2.0,"The difference of their logarithmized signals would be returned to Antie, who will use a simultaneous model to navigate returns to the nest: Upon each exit from the nest, Antie will take a single 360o scan of the sky, and will orient itself according to an analytical procedure to derive compass information from different polarization patterns perceived later."
2.0,"So the Bush administration can keep claiming that we are safer now, under their policies."
2.0,"BACKGROUND , September 11, 2004"
2.0,NEUTRALIZING TERRORISM
2.0,"Beyond these two sources, there is virtually no terrorist activity in the world, with the possible exception of localized disputes such as in Northern Ireland and occasional domestic episodes in various places involving isolated disaffected groups."
2.0,"Before 9/11, terrorism was confined to a small number of extremist individuals, loosely linked by radical Islam and hatred of Israel and its sole supporter, the USA."
2.0,Harmonic Structure and Form
2.0,"As Example 10 shows, the chords are more-or-less in duple meter (4/8 and 2/8) with one “hiccup” occurring in the 5/8 measure."
2.0,"Note that the initial G♯ is a pickup to the section in C♯, which fills in the whole-tone descent from E♭ to C♯ with the intervening fourth."
2.0,"E♭, furthermore, is not convincingly established as a dominant-functioning tone at all."
2.0,"Hence, measures 155-210 constitute the bass progression B-E♭-D♭-B; the same stepwise descent (E♭-D♭) occurred in the first theme group while F rather than B was being prolonged."
2.0,"“a transformation in rhythm and contour of the second head-motive of [the first-theme],”"
2.0,"Wilson, 182."
2.0,The second section of the development is in C♯ (which is sometimes spelled D♭).
2.0,"Although the C♯ major chord in measure 293, preceded by A♭ major (V) in measure 285, suggests C♯ as tonal center, the tonality is not strongly established until measure 303."
2.0,"The third section of the development takes the trombone motive from the transition between the first and second sections of the exposition shown in Example 12, transposed to begin on F, and turns it into a fugato sequence, reproduced in Example 17."
2.0,"In the recapitulation of this theme, shown in Example 19, the first chord is an F-major chord, and the A♭ is replaced by A♮ in the melody."
2.0,"The abbreviations FTG and STG stand for First Theme Group and Second Theme Group, respectively."
2.0,"While “tonality” in this piece (and in Bartók’s music in general) is quite different from its classical interpretation, we find that the harmonic structure is at least analogous to the standard sonata-form structure."
2.0,"Bartók has often applied a tonic-dominant relationship to a pitch-class and its tritone partner, and even admits to using that as a compositional framework in his fifth string quartet."
2.0,"The Introduction does not relate thematically to any of the main sections of the movement—in fact, it is the third movement that draws its thematic material from this section—but the harmonic and motivic principles at play here foreshadow some important elements of the entire piece."
2.0,"The pentatonic set here is exclusively a pitch-class set, and its incarnations throughout the movement are devoid of any connotations associated with the pentatonic scale."
2.0,Example 5 shows the true dominance of the perfect fourth; the set created is a ten-note set derived by stacking fourths.
2.0,If we begin from the final D♯ and ascend the circle of fourths until we reach C we obtain the entire set presented in this example.
2.0,What exactly is the debate between colorlessness vs color and more specifically can black and white be considered non-colors?
2.0,"Wearing black and white also marked the distinction of labor between men and women and in a highly rigid and segmented society, the wearing of different colors seemed the most obvious way to do so."
2.0,"Above all, it is believed that the expanse of literacy and the printed word, mainly the newspaper, had a profound effect in influencing the choice of black and white."
2.0,The explosion of mass production and printing allowed for a plethora of colorful advertising and consumer goods which came to be known as kitsch.
2.0,"Greenberg continues by saying, “Kitsch, using for raw material the debased and academicized simulacra of genuine culture, welcomes and cultivates this insensibility."
2.0,Kitsch is the epitome of all that is spurious in the life of our times.
2.0,"“The predominance of color at the expense of drawing is a usurpation of the relative over the absolute, of fleeting appearance over permanent form, of physical impression over the empire of the soul”"
2.0,"It is neither grey white, nor vory white, but pure white."
2.0,"We have superceded both the ‘brown’ of decadence and classiscm and the ‘blue’ of divisionism, the cult of the blue ky, the gods with green beards and the spectrum."
2.0,WHITE pure white.
2.0,For these reasons black and white have been placed at the top of the hierarchy of colors.
2.0,There are 13 AVAs in Sonoma County.
2.0,"In a way, all this tries to approach terroir from a slight distance; plus the historical distinctions between the two premium distinctive varietal regions, Napa county and Sonoma county."
3.0,"Sonoma County, with roughly half of the wineries of Napa County, wins roughly twice as many gold medals in national and international wine competitions."
2.0,"I disagree, but I am eternally hopeful, optimistic that the Sonoma County Vintners will inject a little passion and not more of the same old staid and boring in their marketing communications."
2.0,"Honore Comfort, Executive Director of the Sonoma County Vintners Association and an outstanding representative for Sonoma County wines noted this: ""."
2.0,"They point to the prestige that the ""Napa Valley"" designation carries."
2.0,"The vintners in Sonoma County simply can't make a case for ""Sonoma County"" having any meaning or for a region as vast as ""Sonoma County"" delivering any degree of quality to the grapes."
2.0,"It also is a 'social promotion' in the sense that great Sonoma wines that now are forced to use ""Sonoma County"" will be giving some of their credibility to their lesser neighbors."
2.0,"I completely agree with you when you state: ""Such an association will not be made with 'Sonoma County' wines...ever."""
2.0,"I was disappointed, though not surprised, to see that today a conjunctive labeling law dictating that ""Sonoma County"" be placed on every label on wines produced from grapes grown in Sonoma County was unanimously passed by the California Legislature ."
2.0,Tom said... Seems like some old geezers are filling their pockets with some major greenbacks getting this bill passed through.
2.0,"You do have a few valid points but they too may be predicated on false premise, I do not claim to be the all knowing expert."
2.0,It does not preempt a state law that allows direct shipping.
2.0,"No it doesn't ""amend"" the faa act."
2.0,It overrides it entirely.
2.0,"More importantly, the very language of H.R. 5034 gives states the explicit right to discriminate against out-of-state wine shippers."
2.0,"The El Rancho Vegas (1941) was the first, followed by the Last Frontier (1943)."
2.0,"When the Flamingo opened in December 1946, it did so with Hollywood flair and the new Vegas flash."
2.0,"That, combined with the formation of the Nevada Gaming Control Board, would signal the beginning of the end for heavy mob influence in the city."
2.0,What was once a sure thing became much more competitive.
2.0,"This trend has led to many more demolitions, including the Dunes (replaced by Bellagio), Aladdin (the new Aladdin) and Sands (Venetian) hotels."
3.0,"Over 20,000 additional hotel rooms have been added in a few short years, including resorts in Summerlin and Lake Las Vegas."
2.0,"Still, the future of Las Vegas is sure to be determined as much by the pioneering spirit that built the city as by anything else."
2.0,"It was not until 1829 that Rafael Rivera, a Mexican scout, found a spring-fed valley and dubbed it Las Vegas — a Spanish name that leaves many modern visitors wondering exactly where “the meadows” really lay."
2.0,"Despite the fact that the local land was rich in silver, by 1865 most of the mining traffic through Las Vegas was of prospectors headed to California or Northern Nevada in search of gold."
2.0,"Construction on Hoover Dam (originally Boulder Dam, subsequently renamed for the president who authorized the project) began in 1931 in a canyon 45 miles (72 km) southeast of Las Vegas."
2.0,"As a homosexual, one risks horrifying their parents, other family members, and friends to the point of losing all contact with them, ruining their career, being condemned by their religion, being beat up for publicly displaying their sexuality, and much much more."
2.0,"This shows that not only did Plato consider it normal for a male to be attracted to another male, he also believed that it began at a very young age, as the word “boyhood” signifies."
2.0,“They’re not like ‘My child’s going to be gay!”’
2.0,"Therefore, from the evolutionary standpoint, homosexuality becomes one of the disadvantageous traits."
2.0,"(However, for the purposes of this paper, homosexuality will be looked at solely in terms of men)."
2.0,“same”
2.0,"It was also in the 1800s when the debate itself over the cause of homosexuality was started by Magnus Hirschfeld, a physician, sex researcher, leading sexologist, homosexual, and founder of the first gay rights movement in Germany, who believed that homosexuality was biological in nature (Marcus 10)."
2.0,"Then in the case of TGI Friday's or other brands that offer free product or discount coupons, you are essentially buying them again."
2.0,"If I were to fulfill that role for him, I would have told him to go low key with this decision and let it be led by his new team."
2.0,"He's also managed to surround himself with people who understand business, but I'm starting to wonder if he's lost a bit of understanding of American culture."
2.0,"Lebron didn't play college basketball, he went straight from high school to the pros, and since joining the Cleveland Cavaliers he's won exactly zero NBA champions."
2.0,Earlier this week Lebron jumped on Twitter and quickly gained a massive following.
2.0,"Many of our critics say that you and I who love animals attribute intelligent and sensitive qualities to “stupid, non-feeling” animals."
1.0,"“stupid, non-feeling”"
2.0,"Beckett and Joyce, among others, had to leave their homeland to understand it —  and to be understood."
2.0,"And in this city, where literature and theater have historically dominated the scene, visual arts are finally coming into their own with the new Museum of Modern Art and the many galleries that display the work of modern Irish artists."
2.0,"And while multinational chains have made inroads, they seem less blatant here than elsewhere."
2.0,Dublin’s food has undergone a metamorphosis.
3.0,The proverbial hospitality and warm welcome are still here.
2.0,Religion and respect for parents has not yet gone out of fashion.
2.0,And young graduates are not leaving now — multinational corporations and European Union investment mean there are plenty of opportunities for them at home.
2.0,"But in fact, once news of the handover vanished from the front pages, the people of Hong Kong returned to their usual topics of conversation: the economy and the price of housing."
3.0,With its vibrant atmosphere and night-and-day activity it is an intoxicating place.
2.0,"To alleviate the problem, the government has become the city’s major landlord with the construction of massive apartment blocks that, though they have every modern facility, average only 9 square m (100 square ft) in size."
2.0,"Of Hong Kong’s population, 98 percent are Chinese."
2.0,"The Chinese people have been described as hardworking and pragmatic, attitudes that have contributed to Hong Kong’s success."
2.0,"Across Victoria Harbor, connected by ferry and the MTR rail line, is the Kowloon peninsula with its hotels, nightlife, and almost non-stop shopping."
2.0,"Into the Initiative's underground bunker: Then, from the bathroom-Initiative across the hall: Into his parent's basement: And into an ice cream truck: Past the the come-hither lesbians: Through the back of the ice cream truck: By means of a passage: That returns him to you guessed it his parents' basement: In which he exits the same door he originally entered it from Buffy's house only to end up in the halls of Sunnydale High and (shortly) an Apocalypse Now parody: The only difference between what Whedon did and Urbino is that you could travel through the side streets of Urbino with a camera and accomplish such feats (minus the Coppola) without needing to cut once ."
2.0,The effect of not being on vacation in Italy on a man with a tall stack of papers to grade.
2.0,"The region is poor (though not so much as I thought) and poorly serviced by internet and wifi: there's a router up the hill from her which sometimes provides wifi, but only then into a loft too unbearably hot to occupy during the day."
2.0,"In fact, Communists in the PRC in the 1970s reclaimed her as a feminist symbol for women who rebel against the patriarchy."
2.0,"She took on the virtues of a traditional Chinese female, particularly forbearance”."
2.0,"While both stories each characterize Madame White Snake fairly consistently within their narratives, the uneven characterization in film noir perhaps mirrors the evolution of her character over time: readers may not be sure whether she is a pure villainess or whether she is a good wife who is badly treated by society, because there is evidence of both throughout her legend."
2.0,He is weak-willed and not particularly useful.
2.0,"“Those creatures took advantage of your fair looks and tempted you. But you, yourself, owing to a lack of courage and spirit, fell victim to their temporary form”"
2.0,But are the morals of these stories entirely sincere?
2.0,"For more than 60 years, caring and concerned wildlife lovers like yourself have supported our mission to educate, inspire and assist individuals and organizations to conserve wildlife and other natural resources and to protect the earth’s environment in order to achieve a peaceful, equitable and sustainable future."
2.0,"When you use the attractive wrapping paper and gift tags, you will be helping us spread the word about saving America’s wildlife treasures and their habitat."
3.0,"""He's a good defender, he has a good arm, he plays the tough right-field position and plays it well."
2.0,"Bengie is expected to be activated from the disabled list today, giving the Angels both Molina brothers on the active major-league roster for the first time."
2.0,"""I understand baseball moves, I've been through this before,"""
2.0,"""I understand baseball moves, I've been through this before,"" said Fabregas, who is headed for his eighth major-league team."
2.0,"The French ice dancers, Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizerat, later won the gold over a Russian team."
2.0,"If convicted of the charges against him -- conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit bribery, both felonies _ Tokhtakhounov faces maximum prison time of 10 years and a fine of $500,000 or more."
1.0,"""She's a scapegoat and a target of a corrupt system and was unfairly singled out."""
2.0,"Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, he has been implicated in arms trading and Russian art smuggling, and in the Russian news media he was accused of complicity in a plot to extort $10 million from the head of a Russian sports foundation."
2.0,"The second mobster told Tokhtakhounov that the federation official ""is close to us -- he is a good guy, he will do it."""
2.0,"He added: ""Everything is going the way you need it."""
2.0,"""one is ours, and the other our friends will give them."""
2.0,"""The French have nothing but the ice dancing,"""
1.0,"""This is a criminal act and it certainly puts things in a different league,"""
2.0,"""This is a criminal act and it certainly puts things in a different league,"" Howard said."
2.0,"In remarks during a ribbon-cutting ceremony here on Wednesday, Gov. George E. Pataki said he expected the facility to generate thousands more jobs in the Hudson Valley area for contractors and suppliers catering to the factory."
2.0,"He praised IBM for being ""a critical partner in our economic development efforts"" in New York state."
2.0,"""The diversity is the big difference with this plant,"" said Richard Doherty, president of Envisioneering, a research firm."
2.0,"Human operators are there to monitor the systems, catch errors and fine-tune the production process for maximum efficiency."
2.0,They look more like workers in a bakery.
2.0,"Yes, said Richard Brilla, director of the new facility, ""but the donuts are a lot more costly here."""
2.0,"""and that's a big motivational factor for us."
2.0,"""It gets a little fake when you have billboards and a campaign,"""
2.0,"""The people of Miami and the people of the University of Florida wanted us to have it for a long time, but it wasn't going to happen with the 11-game format."""
2.0,Karen Rosen writes for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
2.0,"HOW TO SELECT As the gourd ripens, its color changes from near white-pale green to vivid green, often flecked with yellow, and eventually bright orange."
2.0,"They are frequently blanched or salted and left to macerate for up to an hour, then rinsed and patted dry to tame the bitterness."
2.0,"SAN FRANCISCO -- A staple of Chinese and Indian cooking, these gourds (botanically, Momordica charantia) with skin like toads grow on climbing vines that can reach 12 feet."
2.0,"That may well be the best-known kitchen in America, since it became the site of the ""French Chef"" television programs, which started airing in 1962."
2.0,"As reinstalled in Washington, the kitchen should be as we all remember it from countless TV shows, ""right down to the toothpicks."""
2.0,Child will go to the capital for the debut of the exhibit right after the Maine birthday bash.
2.0,"But since it's the middle of summer, I am adding fresh corn to it"" -- plus a dollop of caviar for good measure."
2.0,"In the same vein, Gras is tweaking her salade nicoise, and Jeanminette is adapting her mousse au chocolat to become a spectacular six-layer pecan marjolaine."
2.0,Words of wisdom
2.0,No snacking
2.0,It's easy to imagine what Bay Area chefs like Alice Waters or Michael Mina might have to say about Julia Child on her 90th birthday.
2.0,"The NMFS estimates that in 2000, more than 16,000 tons of Chilean seabass were legally caught from an internationally regulated harvest area in the Antarctic Ocean."
2.0,"""We are also taking a real hard look currently at almost all species of shark, though we haven't made a formal statement about that."""
2.0,"Whole Foods Markets, with 133 stores nationwide, also does not sell Chilean seabass."
3.0,"In 2000 and 2001, the Packard Foundation awarded $26 million in marine fisheries conservation grants."
2.0,"""Making sure that practicing psychologists are giving patients interventions based on the best available psychological science should be the APA's priority,"""
2.0,"""Making sure that practicing psychologists are giving patients interventions based on the best available psychological science should be the APA's priority,"" argues Emory University's Scott Lilienfeld, president of the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology (SSCP)."
1.0,"More than any philosophical betrayal of psychology, RxP opponents fear that the movement will undermine the science they love."
2.0,"They believe that if prescriptive authority becomes the norm, biomedical requirements will inevitably seep into the psychology curriculum, at the expense of traditional psychological science and methodology."
2.0,Lilienfeld feels that many clinical psychologists already receive inadequate training in fundamentals such as research design and evaluation.
2.0,EDITOR: Visit The New York Times Syndicate Web site at http://www.nytimes.com/syndicate for more information on SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN NEWS SERVICE and other features.
2.0,"In Karnes, Tibbets found a kindred spirit -- and a handball partner."
2.0,"Tibbets was a decorated, top-gun pilot, but Karnes could wrangle the military rule book as well as Tibbets could fly."
3.0,I was very lucky to have Tom.
2.0,"Karnes hated to pry, and skimmed over personal portions of the letters."
2.0,On his metal desk were names of military men being ordered into the organization.
2.0,"He said that they had split the atom and that we were going to drop an atomic bomb,"""
2.0,"Karnes handed out bunk assignments, choosing the mess officer, Chuck Perry, to share his tent."
2.0,The crew slipped on dark glasses to prepare for the blinding flash of the bomb.
2.0,"When the bomb exploded as planned 1,890 feet over Hiroshima, Tibbets' mouth tingled, and he tasted the lead fillings in his teeth."
1.0,The crew was horrified by the purple mushroom cloud that climbed to 10 miles and looked as if it would engulf the Enola Gay.
1.0,"Three days later, another B-29 from the 509th bombed Nagasaki."
2.0,"Five days later, Japan surrendered and World War II was over."
2.0,"“Nathan,”"
2.0,“Rachel met someone last night whom it is best never to meet.
2.0,"“Just ignore that,” he told me."
2.0,He parked and got out.
2.0,"Inside, the building opened up."
2.0,"Even when he talked, he hardly opened his mouth."
2.0,The two glanced at each other.
2.0,Let’s go.”
1.0,"The yellow of this sky wasn’t just smog: it had a leeching, heavy dimness."
2.0,"Leaning from the rough-hewn window of one building on our right was something with long, green hair draped across the seven gangly arms hanging from its windowsill."
2.0,"“We, and thousands like us, have been living separately as long as there has been a human society,”"
2.0,"“It’s from Mitch,”"
2.0,What you may call me is Nepthys.”
2.0,"“Just at this corner,” he said, interrupting my immanent panic attack, “we’re going to stop and turn three times widdersh – er, counterclockwise, then face east."
2.0,"When it had all burnt, a thin outline of a doorframe appeared on the wall across from our corner."
2.0,"Its arms were thin and long enough to reach any herbs from its cushion in the center of the cart, and with its long, many-shouldered pole of a torso, it rose over our heads even while seated."
2.0,"Please, let yourselves breathe the fine scent of these herbs.”"
3.0,"Please, if we could see him, we would be much obliged."
2.0,He opened one eye when we came in but did not move.
2.0,I said.
2.0,There’s an entire industry in my world based around how unkillable they are.
2.0,"They’re almost as rare here, and I’ve never heard a reliable story of someone successfully fighting a vampire.”"
2.0,Okay?
2.0,The little man drew a few loud breaths that died in the wooden room’s tight air.
2.0,"It would allow me to leave this bed, despite my current illness."
3.0,"“Good evening, gentlemen,” she said."
2.0,"“No, thank you,”"
2.0,"“Yes,”"
2.0,"“Yes,” answered the woman."
3.0,The woman laughed.
2.0,"In its center, under a spearing, white light, was a golden table draped with a blue velvet cloth, on which lay a gray, plum-sized rock."
2.0,"“You wouldn’t give me the human, would you?"
2.0,“A pint?
2.0,Nepthys turned to me.
2.0,"“Roll up your sleeves,” she told me."
2.0,"“They take about a quarter-pint each,” said Madame Entera, drawing out another skinny leech."
2.0,I took about half of the Bloody Mary in one gulp and then ate the celery.
2.0,"“Okay,” I said, “now that we’re sitting down, can you explain a little more of what’s going on here?"
2.0,This place is just a little of both.
2.0,"Some of them actually commit to this society, though."
2.0,"Now spring was back, under the concrete, and I could smell it even here."
2.0,"“I agree,” I told him."
2.0,"The air around me seemed to still sound, and light came in around the corners of my eyes."
2.0,“Do you know what this thing does?”
2.0,"When she didn’t move, I knelt down and put a hand to her brow."
2.0,The next thing that comes out of your mouth is probably what she’ll respond to until we figure out how to put her back.”
2.0,Nepthys looked at me incredulously.
3.0,"Amy smiled at me and let go of my arm, but not before she brought my fingers to her lips and gave them one soft kiss."
2.0,I stood up and Amy stood with me.
2.0,"“I suppose so,”"
3.0,"We slammed against the doorway and I was laughing too, the pulse close enough to shake the doorframe and set up vibrations in my chest, Rachel in my arms because she’d used me to soften her landing."
2.0,"I thought about Rachel; in the excitement, I had forgotten why we were chasing down vampire experts."
2.0,"He was naked, but there was nothing to hide: his body was hairless and completely smooth."
1.0,"I shivered as I walked past the pale man’s blank eyes, wondering what they were staring at."
2.0,I don’t wish to be reminded of how old I actually am.”
2.0,A wave to the pale men brought a bottle of red wine and a platter of grapes.
3.0,"“That sweet, small nose, and her soft lips – she’d kiss well, I should think, if gently."
3.0,"“Mmm,”"
2.0,I couldn’t tell what the thoughtful look on her face meant.
2.0,“I do.
2.0,Describe this one to me.
3.0,“That’s amazing!”
2.0,I would have sworn to you that he was dead.
2.0,"Rachel stepped forward into the crowd while I took a moment to drink in the ceiling’s blue-lit, shadowed vault and the light-catching haze from who-knows-what rising between the DJ and the crowd."
2.0,"Shivers swept through her body, and Nepthys reached out to touch her but I stopped him."
2.0,asked Nepthys.
2.0,"“I found your vampire,”"
2.0,“but he might know that someone’s looking for him. He’s taken great pains to keep himself hidden.
2.0,"I stood, and one of her servants took me and Amy to the door."
2.0,Nepthys caught up with us after a minute and walked silently to the end of the hall.
2.0,"“Mountain ash,” said Nepthys."
3.0,“That was very kind of her.”
2.0,"In a few minutes, we were back to the first door we’d knocked on in this town and Dvorov himself was greeting us."
2.0,You’re crazy.
1.0,"I don’t want my customers thinkin’ that anything’s wrong, you know?”"
2.0,"Something with too many arms was manning the turntables above the crowd, which looked more impenetrable tonight than ever before."
1.0,"Then a looming shape to my right fell away, and I saw him in a flash of the strobe, his black eyes staring deadly into the crowd."
2.0,A black hallway opened into a space like a cathedral.
2.0,"Taste, hearing and touch became a single blur, and I do not know if my eyes were open."
2.0,I walked across what had been the dance floor.
1.0,"I realized that Rachel had disappeared without leaving a clue and I had no way to do anything but wait for her to show up – which, if she were in a situation where I should be doing something, would probably be never."
1.0,"She didn’t come home last night, none of her friends have seen her."
1.0,"…Sir, if she’s in any danger, it will probably be too late to help her by that time."
2.0,"…Yes, sir."
1.0,It slowed down as it neared me and I started to worry.
2.0,This wasn’t the best of neighborhoods.
2.0,I heard an automatic window roll down.
2.0,"America’s steel remained unsold, flooding the world market with inferior products that no one wanted to buy."
2.0,"College tuition, clothes, food, and heating all had to come before donations to non-profit organizations."
1.0,"Beyond that, no one knew how they should proceed: everyone knew that saving the mills was important, but nobody stepped forward with a full-fledged plan to do it without losing huge amounts of money and dragging even more people down."
1.0,The Campaign failed to save any jobs and Youngstown was plunged into economic chaos.
2.0,"Rather than sit back and wait for their jobs to be snatched away, the workers and local union members in the mills fought long and hard to be able to keep the factories open."
2.0,"Rather than try and come up with some sort of scenario, the USWA simply ignored what was going on in Youngstown, hoping that perhaps the problem would resolve itself, or at least not spread any further than it already had."
2.0,"This would mean that UWSA would lose credibility with the American government and its people, something they could not afford to do."
2.0,"Therefore, they decided to withdraw support and let the local branch fight it out alone."
2.0,"For the people of Youngstown, Black Monday was not just a historical event- it was the most important event in their lives."
2.0,"Old technology was not replaced, obsolete methods were not updated, and almost none of the industry’s profits were being utilized to help modernize."
2.0,"“to get up a petition to stop the shutdown,”"
2.0,"The petition was circulated, eventually including thousands of signatures; it was then given to USWA representatives to present to President Carter in Washington."
2.0,The Coalition drafter letters to the Lykes Company asking if a group of workers might purchase the mill and run it collectively.
2.0,The efforts to save the mills failed partly because the international market for steel had largely dried up.
2.0,"Foreign steel was easier and more efficient to make, and was often of higher quality than domestic steel."
2.0,"Foreign steel companies invested in their factories, updating their technology and replacing their equipment often."
2.0,"This meant that foreign facilities were more modern and efficient than any plants in America, and therefore were able to export a more competitive product."
2.0,Foreign steel was also much cheaper.
2.0,Or you could go out to the shed and grab a few handfuls of that sod mix you got at that estate sale last year and get to mixing.
2.0,Customize it yourself.
1.0,I ended up with a broken fingernail and dirt all over my lap.
3.0,And the last lesson -- have fun .
2.0,Do it to see how it feels.
2.0,They'll be glad to know it is catching on among the under-60 set.
2.0,Embrace it.
3.0,It makes me a little nicer.
2.0,Here's where we started -
3.0,"Thanks, MamaHun."
2.0,French suburb riots could resume
1.0,Al Qaeda chiefs are seen to regain power
2.0,"Dispute over Iraqi cleric, said to have gone to Iran"
2.0,Planning seen in Iraqi attacks on U.S. copters
2.0,Moscow says Palestine-Israeli contacts key to Mideast peace
2.0,China: Cheney shores up the trilateral alliance
2.0,Life on Mars? Maybe We Missed It
3.0,Canadian breakthrough offers hope on autism
2.0,"For women, aspirin a day could keep stroke away"
2.0,Stop cancer with a shot
3.0,Pig cells hope for diabetes cure
3.0,"Cocoa could be antidote to age-related diseases, says new study"
2.0,Opponent is put on the spot over remarks about Clinton
2.0,"London market a shopping, dining haven"
2.0,Teen allegedly armed by mom turns self in
2.0,Spain ahead although Nadal is out
2.0,Jakarta begins disinfection
2.0,Democrats look beyond symbolic vote on Iraq
3.0,Official laughs for Borat
2.0,Two Koreas to resume talks
2.0,Mickelson driving force at masters
1.0,Swiss plane crashes at Moscow airport
2.0,Research supports medicinal marijuana
2.0,Iraq closes borders with Syria and Iran
1.0,Amish discuss shootings
1.0,Bomb kills 18 on military bus in Iran
2.0,Jones faces Europe meetings snub
2.0,Village buried by 100 inches of snow
1.0,Chrysler's Valentine's Day massacre
2.0,United Finds Good Connection in Win
3.0,"Start late, retire rich"
2.0,Flu Vaccine Appears Safe for Young Children
2.0,Rwanda mulling 3-kid limit for families
2.0,"Radical cleric al-Sadr in Iran, U.S. insists"
2.0,Reports: Harvard set to name first female president
2.0,Prehistoric lovers found locked in eternal embrace
2.0,Peru leader questioned in massacre probe
2.0,Siestas may cut heart disease risk
1.0,"Oregon snorkeler mistaken for rodent, shot in face"
2.0,Comedian says government silences critics
2.0,"Rice, in Baghdad, Insists That Iraqis Are"
2.0,Here is some advice to take to heart...
1.0,Outdated baby food found on shelves
2.0,Britons deported from Somalia held under Terrorism Act
2.0,YouTube yields surprising payback
2.0,Survey: Tech a tool in teen dating abuse
1.0,Japanese whaler afire in Antarctic
2.0,Win a (concert) date with the Police
2.0,Lawyer seizes Smith's Bahamas home
2.0,"ROUNDUP: Protests erupt despite ""state of siege"" In Guinea"
2.0,Beyonce new SI bikini cover girl
2.0,Kathmandu: First snow in 63 years
1.0,Squirrel jumps boy in park; rabies suspected
2.0,School ends football season after 0-4 start
2.0,Charlie Sheen to become highest-paid sitcom star
1.0,"Waste plant fire forces 5,000 to evacuate"
2.0,Peter Pan flies into chapter two
2.0,Trailblazing trio protects City by the Bay
2.0,Pair of Satellites Will Document Sun in 3-D
2.0,Diplomat acknowledges US arrogance in Iraq
1.0,More Human Remains Found at Ground Zero
2.0,Britain to restrict immigrants from new EU members
1.0,Cisco sues Apple over iPhone name
2.0,"""Stomp the Yard"" has winning moves in its weekend debut"
2.0,Pacers' Jackson misses gun hearing
1.0,Aquarium puts ailing beluga whale to sleep
2.0,Fortune: Looking beyond the iPhone
2.0,News analysis: Iranian boast is put to test
2.0,Amateur rocket scientists reach for space
2.0,Russia plans major military build-up
2.0,Taking the plunge
1.0,Deaths linked to flu vaccine
2.0,Israel intensifies military flights over Lebanon
2.0,New gadgets galore at tech show
2.0,Israel admits using phosphorous shells in Lebanon
2.0,Investigation of child porn site hits 77 nations
1.0,Ice storm cripples central U.S.
2.0,Models' health guidelines -- will they help?
2.0,Stepping back in time at ski resort
1.0,Porn ring scandal reaches Australia
2.0,China launches two satellites into orbit
2.0,Review: 'Alpha Dog' misses the point
1.0,10 kidnapped at Nigeria oil base
2.0,"'Grey's,' 'Pirates' lead People's Choice"
2.0,SPACE.com: Black hole triplets spotted
2.0,Kate is marrying Doherty
2.0,Doomsday Clock ticking away
2.0,US Airways boosts bid for Delta
2.0,Eight years for Damilola killers
1.0,Man beheaded in southern Thailand
1.0,"Bangladesh ferry sinks, 15 dead"
2.0,Iraqi forces detain official suspected in Shia conspiracy
2.0,"'Cravings' still there, sez Tara"
1.0,Iran to hit US interests if attacked
2.0,ASEAN urges North Korea resolution
2.0,Late penalty costs Roma the points
3.0,Review: virtual 'American Idol' hits right notes
2.0,John Grisham set for court drama
1.0,Boy Scouts blamed for starting wildfire
2.0,Action games improve eyesight
2.0,Review: PS3 pricey but impressive
3.0,Ferrer victorious in Spanish duel
1.0,Search on for victims of subway collapse
2.0,Barack Obama formally announces bid for president
1.0,Ice storm descends on central U.S.
1.0,Russian ship sinks in Pacific
2.0,Sea search for missing Microsoft scientist
2.0,China Successfully Launches Two Satellites
2.0,"Nipple covers, other star secrets"
1.0,Botched hangings in Iraq speed sectarianism
2.0,"Second opinion: girl or boy? as fertility technology advances, so does an ethical debate"
2.0,"US, North Korea signed nuclear memo"
3.0,MySpace welcomes French friends
1.0,The amounts you have to pay for a bomb scare
2.0,"In Egypt, Rice speaks softly"
1.0,Study finds gritty air raises heart disease risk in older women
2.0,China considers Eurobond reserves
1.0,Indonesian bird flu deaths hit 61
2.0,"""If you never finish such stories, how can they be worth publishing?"""
2.0,"Tell them, and they will create an audience."
2.0,"He contemplated a story, an outline he had laboriously constructed some time ago."
1.0,"""Then why,"" Arthur barreled on, ""do you disregard them all and return to this superstitious babble, this morbid, paganistic drivel?"
2.0,"""Its twigs rap constantly against the wall, the wind always demanding my attention."
2.0,"""Very well,"""
1.0,"With that, he tossed the papers at Allan and left the room."
1.0,"""you don't think it's a waste of ink and paper, a futile expedition into morbidity or literary debauchery?"""
1.0,"Collapsing at its base, Allan wrapped his arms around the stoic tree and let forth a moan, a cry of purest agony that escaped him as the first tears seeped from the corners of his eyes and slid down his cheeks, falling to the ground and seeping though the fallen leaves and needles to join the water of the stream, flowing through the ground beneath them."
2.0,"The great, jaundiced eye stared down unblinkingly at the author, who gazed up through his window's tiny frame with trepidation."
2.0,"His breath returning to its normal rhythms, he dared to look at the page before him."
3.0,A magnificent glow infused the carriage as they merged with the sky's glory.
2.0,Allan took a sandwich between his fingers.
2.0,"""I'm not familiar with Mr. Poe's works, but I assume you're referring to your unhealthy penchant for the fantastic."""
1.0,"""How perfectly awful."""
2.0,"""Perhaps you could make some headway if you denied your darker side the outlet of the colorful metaphors you so enjoy."
1.0,"There simply is no audience for fairy tales – no literate audience, at least."""
2.0,He scratched the back of his dark-haloed head and blinked bleary eyes.
2.0,"""Perhaps you require a rest from writing,"" suggested Arthur."
2.0,"""Nathan?"""
2.0,The reply came from above him and Allan turned to see his friend reclining in the fork of a great tree.
3.0,Ended!
3.0,"Either way, it's nice to see a restaurant built on ethics that also happens to be incredibly busy."
2.0,"Next stop: sunny Tennessee, where I get down on The Farm."
2.0,"Noshin' at the Tupelo Honey Cafe | Plus, how to get great service in busy restaurants 23 Mar., 2010"
2.0,"Come back Friday to read about anarchy, bike jousting, and two-wheeled social protest ."
2.0,"And as we left at the end of the workshop, a woman walked up to Andrew."
2.0,"On vacation, rent a bike instead of a scooter (or, God forbid, a Segway)."
2.0,"Bike clubs tend to be pretty anarchic, but if you look around your community you'll find both bike riders and shop owners who ride for change."
2.0,Start your own!
3.0,"Tried/shared/re-tweeted, with pleasure!"
2.0,Bike rescue is not just for kids.
2.0,Fall is exactly 79% more tingly when experienced by bike.
2.0,The hard truth: The soil of North Truro is not strong enough to support agriculture.
2.0,It's always been this way in North Truro.
2.0,"There used to be a local tradition in this area: at each spring tide , the local community would head out to the bogs and marshes to harvest the grasses."
2.0,"This was called ""salt marsh haying""."
2.0,"It worked -- but it cost money, and it disappeared fast into the hungry ground."
2.0,"Well, not exactly."
2.0,"Hence the Ag Fair, and the ongoing experimentation with varieties and soils at First Light."
2.0,"After all, what's the point of farming on the beach?"
2.0,would be heathier.
2.0,"Farming on Sand: The trouble with ""eating local"" on Cape Cod | Uprooted, an eco/travel blog"
2.0,Department stores sell all sorts of intriguing kitchen equipment.
2.0,Locally made items do not live up to their European models.
2.0,The only holiday on which all commerce comes to a halt is the Chinese New Year in January or February.
2.0,"Other centers for concerts, plays, and entertainment are Sha Tin Town Hall and Tsuen Wan Town Hall in the New Territories."
3.0,Dance.
2.0,"Soho, along with the Lan Kwai Fong area, is popular with chuppies (Hong Kong yuppies) and has a lively bar scene."
2.0,Beaches.
2.0,"The Discovery Bay Golf Club on Lantau island (Tel. 2987 7273) has an 18-hole Robert Trent Jones Jr. course, open to visitors Monday, Tuesday, and Friday."
2.0,"Because of the heavy harbor traffic, only sailors licensed by the Hong Kong authorities can run pleasure boats in local waters."
2.0,The Rugby Sevens sees teams come together from all over the world for 15 matches in March or early April.
3.0,Hong Kong’s state-of-the-art interactive museums will interest children of all ages.
2.0,Many stores will pack and ship purchases.
2.0,"In addition, most top-line hotels have upscale malls full of designer boutiques."
2.0,Factory Outlets.
2.0,"Specialty goods and souvenirs, often handmade, come from Hong Kong and elsewhere in China."
2.0,The choice ranges from traditional hand-carved Chinese rosewood furniture to well-made reproductions of modern Western styles.
2.0,Rattan furniture is highly popular.
2.0,"You can buy gemstones loose or set, or have them made up to your own design."
2.0,"Just to the east of the financial district, Wan Chai was once an area of sleazy clubs and topless bars; this was the setting for The World of Suzy Wong."
2.0,"There are still bars and clubs here, but the area has become almost mainstream, and office towers are replacing many of the sinful old premises."
2.0,Originally the temple was on the shore but reclamation projects have now left it high and dry.
2.0,Aberdeen’s theatrical floating restaurants have been a tourist attraction for many years.
2.0,"The food may not live up to expectations, but the fantasy environment makes up for it."
2.0,"If you can get up early enough, you can attend the pre-dawn auction held at the vast local wholesale fish market; otherwise, have a look at the street market that goes on later in the day."
2.0,"Just east of the Star Ferry terminal, you’ll come to City Hall."
2.0,It contains the Xubaizhi collection of painting and calligraphy; galleries devoted to antiquities and ceramics; and a gallery of modern Chinese art.
2.0,"Go through the underground walkway to Statue Square; on the east side of the square is the Legislative Council Building, one of the few colonial buildings left in Hong Kong."
2.0,"Just across Salisbury Road from the cultural center is the historic Peninsula Hotel, now expanded and modernized by a 32-story tower."
2.0,"Alongside the hotel runs busy Nathan Road, Hong Kong’s fabled shopping street, lined with shops, hotels, and restaurants."
2.0,"A few blocks up Nathan Road is Kowloon Park (open daily 6am–midnight), elegantly laid out with fountains, promenades, and ornamental gardens; be sure to go up the steps to see the Sculpture Walk."
2.0,Hong Kong’s New Territories begin at Boundary Street.
2.0,"Despite protests by preservationists, there was little alternative."
2.0,"North of the town, a commanding view over all the New Territories to the north can be seen from Tai Mo Shan, Hong Kong’s highest peak at 957 m (3,140 ft)."
2.0,"Place names are often based on the distance to the nearest mile-post, as measured from the tip of the Kowloon peninsula."
2.0,"The lookout point at Lok Ma Chau was once known as Hong Kong’s “window on China” — in the years of China’s isolation from the West, tourists would come to the lookout point here and rent binoculars in order to get a glimpse of the great mystery beyond."
2.0,"An even more interesting image out of Chinese history is the walled village of Kat Hing Wai, in the village of Kam Tin just outside the market town of Yuen Long."
2.0,"Another such hall, belonging to the Liu Clan, is Liu Man Shek Tong in the village of Sheung Shui."
2.0,"The traditional Qing Dyna­sty style of the mansion is enlivened by a few West­ern touches: a Baroque-style ceiling and stained glass above the doorways, showing the builder’s up-to-date attitude at the time of construction."
2.0,"There is a total of 12,800 Buddha statues here, plus the remains of the monastery’s founder embalmed in gold leaf."
2.0,Legend has it that a local woman climbed the hill every day to watch for her husband returning from across the sea; one day the wife and her child were turned to stone as a permanent symbol of her enduring faith.
2.0,"The statue and a small museum are on a peak, up 268 steps, above Po Lin Monastery."
2.0,"The monastery is strictly vegetarian, and visitors are warned not to bring any meat with them."
2.0,"The island’s largest community is Tai O. The people of this picturesque village make their living by fishing, duck-breeding, and food-processing."
2.0,"Some 10 km (6 miles) west of Hong Kong lies this small, crowded island, only one square mile in size."
2.0,"Col­­o­n­na­­ded public buildings, iron balconies, winding streets, flagstoned squares and the many churches all speak of the Portuguese inheritance as well as the Chinese, a fusion of East and West that has produced the unique Macanese culture."
2.0,Jetfoils leave every 15 to 30 minutes 24 hours a day.
2.0,"The park’s 10.5 hectares (25 acres) of landscaped gardens and lakes contains a large greenhouse that holds many species of plants, and an aviary of exotic birds."
2.0,"Along this elegant avenue is Government House, a modest pink palace."
2.0,On the inside walls are flowered blue tiles (azulejos) and coats of arms.
2.0,"It’s in Hong Kong’s oldest colonial building, with exhibits describing the history of tea from the Warring States period (475–221 b.c. ) to the present."
2.0,"Local legend claims that he wrote part of his great saga, Os Lusíadas, in what is now called the Camões Grotto, situated in the spacious tropical Camões Garden."
2.0,Watch the fantan dealer for a few minutes and you’ll almost be an expert: It’s simply a matter of how many odd buttons are left after he has divided a pile of them into groups of four.
2.0,Gourmets award Macau high marks for dependable Chinese cooking with an exotic bonus: Portuguese food and wines.
2.0,"Macau’s own cuisine is a combination of Chinese flavors with the flavors imported from Portugal, Brazil, and Africa."
2.0,"Pay a visit to the Casa Museu da Taipa, and you’ll be able to get a glimpse of how Macanese families lived in former days."
2.0,"The small Chapel of St. Francis Xavier is dedicated to the 16th-century patron saint of missionaries, and has on display the elbow of the saint, along with the bones of numerous Japanese and Vietnamese martyrs."
2.0,"Guangzhou is interestingly one of China’s most prosperous cities, determinedly on the move into the modern world."
2.0,"There are many package tours to Guangzhou from Hong Kong (see page 113), and this may be the easiest way to visit the city."
2.0,Sights in Guangzhou
2.0,"Actually a five-story pavilion on a hilltop, it contains a fine collection of historical exhibits."
3.0,"An architectural wonder, it is itself a beautiful piece of craftsmanship with its sculpture and carved stone balustrades."
2.0,There is also a market and a porcelain shop.
2.0,"Mao Zedong himself directed the institute in 1926, and gave lectures on geography, rural education, and “The Problem of the Chinese Peasantry. ”"
2.0,"The individual artisans’ shops are no longer here, but you can visit a silk-weaving factory, a ceramics plant, and the Foshan Folk Art Studio, where you can observe workers making Chinese lanterns, carving sculptures, painting scrolls, and cutting intricate designs in paper."
2.0,Shenzhen was China’s first Special Economic Zone.
2.0,"Visitors need a visa to enter China, and must disembark at the border (now called “boundary”) checkpoint, Lo Wai."
2.0,"In Shekou is a large Free Market, and an exhibition of Xian’s terra-cotta warriors."
2.0,"You’ll find herb and medicine shops, incense shops, chop makers’ shops (makers of Chinese seals), and more."
2.0,Dear Ms. LastName
2.0,This question of identity as defined by language manifests differently in Guatemala and Colombia.
2.0,Indigenous Revitalization Movements of Latin America: The Rediscovery of Language and Identity
2.0,"In addition, there exists a complex relationship between what are perceived as different levels of indigenous identity; the Nasa, for example, divide themselves into the traditional, modern, and new."
2.0,"The ONIC of Colombia lacks legitimacy precisely because it is perceived as not “Indian enough”; it embraces the use of Spanish and Western discourse, leading to distrust among indigenous peoples (Jackson 2002: 85)."
2.0,"Their struggle to attain status in societies still bearing the marks of Spanish colonialism is deeply tied to their struggle to reaffirm the nature of their “indigenous identity”, and is in turn linked to the interaction of Spanish and their native languages."
2.0,The Colombian constitution is problematic in that it provides little guide as to what exactly forms an indigenous group; the concept of culture is so complex and divergent that establishing self-determination in the eyes of the Colombian government requires emphasizing differences.
2.0,"An emphasis on preserving, rather than practicing, native culture arises: indigenous authenticity is maintained by sustaining knowledge of traditional practices and beliefs without fully embracing them on a day-to-day basis (Gow and Rappaport 2002: 66-67)."
2.0,"Humans, in the process of defining themselves, look to immediately recognizable factors in order to differentiate themselves from others."
2.0,"In reality land ownership rights were the exclusive right of the Spanish, resulting in modern-day malappropriation of land ownership in the hands of the descendants of the Spanish colonialists (Warren 1978, 7-8). Indigenous peoples are commonly sharecroppers or migrant workers."
2.0,It therefore often invokes the banner of indigenous rights in its own discourse .
2.0,"A main concern among pan-Mayanists is the reversal of the long-seated inferiority complex of the Mayan people; despite their position as majority within the Guatemalan population, they remain impoverished and marginalized on the fridge of society."
3.0,"While the repartimento was originally used to repress the indigenous groups, it is now used to support them: resguardos, or communally owned plots of land, are granted to communities."
2.0,Mayans gained formal recognition in 1995 as the majority population in a precursor to the 1996 peace accord; by 1999 its government floated a referendum on an indigenous bill of rights resembling that codified in the Colombian constitution (Warren 2002: 157-158).
2.0,"We’re partnering with agencies and other organizations to introduce inner-city youth to the fun of the outdoors in Boston, Philadelphia, and New York City."
2.0,"We’re determined to conserve the Northern Forest of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and New York, as well as the White and Berkshire ranges, and the countryside surrounding the Appalachian Trail."
2.0,"We’re working to keep our air clean and healthy, our waterfalls clear, our rivers running free, and recreational activities open."
2.0,"The Appalachian Mountain Club is looking for men, women, and children who share our love of the outdoors—and our commitment to preserving our region’s natural beauty for future generations."
2.0,Shouldn’t you learn the art of photographing subtle winter light?
2.0,We have groups for every level of expertise and programs for all seasons.
2.0,Spend a weekend bushwhacking with map and compass near our Pinkham Notch Lodge.
3.0,YOU’LL HAVE THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE—but sign up early!
2.0,Experience the peace and beauty of coastal rhythms.
2.0,"Chapter leaders arrange hiking and bicycling trips and teach the basics of cross-country skiing, whitewater and flatwater canoeing, and other outdoor skills."
2.0,Our roots are in hiking.
3.0,We’ll tell you where to go for outdoor fun and keep you informed of the crucial issues affecting our mountain environment.
2.0,Please USE them on your correspondence to help get our name in front of as many people as possible.
2.0,"424 East 92nd StreetLarry M. HawkNew York, NY 10128President/CEO www.aspca.org"
1.0,So empty it hurt.
2.0,"The ASPCA pushes for the passage and strengthening of anti-cruelty laws, so that crimes against animals will be treated with the seriousness they deserve."
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2.0,AT&Ts surcharge is up tp $30 per call.
2.0,"You see, the USDA found a loophole allowing these protections to be lifted for “experimental” activities."
1.0,The USDA wants to conduct an “experiment” that will spread enough poison in our environment to kill two million blackbirds.
1.0,“YOU WILL NOT CONDUCT MASSIVE BIRD KILLS TO BENEFIT A HANDFUL OF SPECIAL INTERESTS!”
2.0,"We’ve noted the presence of 68 other species of grassland songbirds in the proposed poison-baited areas ... including the Bobolink, Grasshopper Sparrow, Harris’ Sparrow and Le Conte’s Sparrow."
2.0,"Here’s what I need you to do, to make sure we prevail: First, I need you to sign and return your Petition to the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture."
2.0,"I’ll forward your Petition, along with those from thousands of other Audubon members and supporters, urging the USDA to withdraw its cruel plan to poison blackbirds ... in favor of alternative, benign methods of protecting sunflower crops."
2.0,Audubon rescues endangered wildlife.
2.0,"You’ll once again be enthralled by the striking photography and insightful environmental journalism that makes our exclusive magazine, AUDUBON, a treasure worth saving."
2.0,I’ve had a look at the magazine’s upcoming subjects and I can tell you the best is yet to come.
2.0,There’s much more to membership than AUDUBON magazine!
2.0,We discussed the foundations: the Three Turnings of the Wheel of Dharma; the four noble truths; karma; defilements; the six perfections.
2.0,"Khenpo Kalsang, he smiled, and shook his head."
2.0,"""If you feel regret, it destroys the merit."""
2.0,"""study the brain and the self externally. Ever since the 1920s, their science has been about observation of behavior, questionnaires, recordings of electrical brain activity. But the mind can only be known by you, the person whose mind it is."""
2.0,"Ever since the 1920s, their science has been about observation of behavior, questionnaires, recordings of electrical brain activity."
2.0,"All three examine the distinction between the self and others, between the observer and the observed, between knowing and the knower."
2.0,I agree with Ani Kunga to some extent--only so much can be known about the mind from external observation.
2.0,Tibetan Buddhist philosophy also approaches the mind and the self from the inside.
2.0,Compassion and anger were the session's topics.
2.0,"""If there's something you can do, why are you unhappy?"
2.0,"All the methods built off the idea that you are in control: anger is an emotion, and you can change your emotions."
2.0,The field work office at my college arranges this retreat every semester.
2.0,"The long blade of the yucca had a sharp tip, but the only weapons allowed according to Humpty Dumpty Nursery rules of engagement were smelly thistles or cocklebur stems covered with spiked yellow stickers."
2.0,Roy didn't really start talking for days and didn't walk until a long time after that.
1.0,I'll make you fight.
2.0,Roy!
2.0,You ok?
1.0,I thought he might stab you.
2.0,Suddenly his blank face seemed like the face of a Play Force Soldier or a GI Joe.
2.0,What?
2.0,Probably not.
1.0,"When my father died, a year after my mother, my sisters and I cleaned out their apartment."
2.0,"They say the cubes will outlast planets and suns, that when the universe dies, the works of Malaquez and his followers will be the last things seen in the final wink of God's eye."
2.0,"""My guess."""
3.0,One of the many things I liked about her was that she often thought me shockingly ignorant.
2.0,"""That's, uh..."""
2.0,"The stars themselves might have fallen on the Undersider and the event would have been no less strange, no less miraculous."
2.0,"The next evening, she arrived with a stack of glistening stopboxes containing sushi, sashimi, oysters in their shells, and Terran vegetables fresh plucked from their hydroponic beds."
2.0,"He's taking Dream's End."""
2.0,"You did that to test my affections."""
2.0,"""Calling him by his first name."
2.0,"It was before your time."""
2.0,"""Tasha --"""
2.0,"""Truthfully."""
2.0,"""He may come to dinner?"""
2.0,Let me begin again.
2.0,"""All of it."""
2.0,"""So early?"""
2.0,She nodded at the package.
2.0,"I stopped writing, and only the thought that I might miss the mindwipe kept me from another spree."
2.0,The side of Malaquez's parcel gave way to reveal a greenmunk caught in a sheen of solid air.
2.0,Bits of leaf mold flew from under his feet as he ran to greet a friend or a bringer of food.
2.0,He glanced at me and decided I was joking.
2.0,"""But an artist who would stay first among his fellows can tell when he begins to fail."""
2.0,"""I must change my subject matter."
2.0,"I want to do more traditional portraits."""
2.0,Tasha said.
2.0,"""Of course,"""
2.0,Then we went out for a late swim.
2.0,"I had drunk too much, I confess, though we all had."
2.0,"Somehow, Tasha and I began to argue the worth of Solevgrad jazz, as inconsequential a topic as I can imagine."
2.0,"Malaquez tried to mediate, but I saw him as siding with Tasha."
2.0,") I remember suggesting, with characteristic tact, that she add Emil to her small list of major accomplishments."
2.0,"Tasha looked at me as if to say, ""I will."""
2.0,"A tall, narrow stopbox stood in the center of one room; sand trickled forever downward while beads of water splashed across the sand's path."
1.0,I only wanted to despise the man who had slept with my lover.
2.0,"I didn't anticipate last night --"""
2.0,"I waited in the dark, carpeted hall."
2.0,"I heard no voices until Malaquez said, ""Enter."""
3.0,"Though the morning sun shone fully on both of them, it shimmered around Tasha."
2.0,She did!
2.0,"Now she will be."""
2.0,Less likely: she would live the rest of her days with a mind as free of worry as a slug's.
2.0,And Tasha?
2.0,"I could say that I chose out of consideration for her desire for fame; some critics already say ""Waking With Tasha"" is Malaquez's finest work."
2.0,"Her brows drew together, creasing the lovely, caramel-colored skin around her eyes and showing the pattern for an old woman's wrinkles on her forehead."
3.0,I laughed.
3.0,"""It amuses me."
2.0,"Call me Bernardo."""
2.0,"Not bad for an eighty-three-year-old, even for one who has his rejuve every month."
2.0,Three!
2.0,"He used it to preserve baby tomatoes, cucumbers, and strawberries in translucent cubes that he stored in the pantry for spring-time meals in the middle of winter."
2.0,"The issue of why I am evading the issue, or the issue itself?"
2.0,"So today, I urge you to do these two things: FIRST: Sign the enclosed Citizens’ Advisory Ballot to show our Alaska allies your strong personal support to reinstate the ban on “same-day airborne land-and-shoot” wolf killing in Alaska; SECOND: Rush an urgent donation to help put this measure on the ballot and win passage in November."
2.0,The Alaska Legislature is completely out of step with the will of Alaska’s citizens and the American public at large.
2.0,"And if history is any guide, over the years thousands of Alaska’s wolves will be brutally killed."
1.0,ALASKA EMERGENCY
1.0,"So if we don’t act right now, Alaska’s snowy tundras will once again become bloody killing fields for wolves in America’s “Last Frontier.”"
1.0,Our well-funded opponents will spend whatever it takes to mislead and confuse voters about this ballot measure.
1.0,And it will be a major setback for wolves nationwide — at a time when the American public overwhelmingly favors wolf reintroduction and protection.
2.0,1. SIGN the enclosed Citizens’ Advisory Ballot to show your support for repealing “same-day airborne land-and-shoot” wolf killing in Alaska;
2.0,"And then, mail it back to us along with your emergency donation to help save Alaska’s wolves."
2.0,"So, please sign the enclosed Citizens’ Advisory Ballot to lend your moral support to our Alaska friends and return it in the enclosed envelope with a special donation."
2.0,"Someone will need to begin by creating an urban ""oasis"" that mitigates some of the fears that you had while driving through the city -- where to buy groceries, a place where you can feel safe on your own front porch, the freedom to sleep soundly without worrying about your copper wiring."
3.0,"""oasis"""
2.0,"Raggedy Anarchy 21. Sep, 2009 at 7:21 pm"
2.0,"Why, out in New Mexico, where you can still buy unincorporated land with no water or roads, you'd pay at least $1,000 for a house-sized plot of dust."
2.0,Is this the greatness they built on earth?
2.0,"This, American Glory?"
2.0,"Do we still have fertile backyard gardens, filled with the composting of the age?"
2.0,"""Yuan"""
3.0,"""Free"""
2.0,"Are American lives well spent in thei ""Middle East"" endevor?"
2.0,"I don't think you present a fully-informed argument on the causes of urban decay, but I don't disagree with you."
2.0,"I pictured young artists owning homes, fixing up neighborhoods."
1.0,Just ask the Palestinians who left after the first war to cry over the past.
2.0,There is now a house for $10 listed on realtor.com
3.0,"We could take that oil-stained soil and those rusted factories, and create something new and beautiful."
3.0,"However, the main reason I wanted to post was to say to ""Lumpy"", ""the democrats have the unmidas touch"", LMAO, that is classic."
2.0,and I must agree with Lumpy.
1.0,"Additionally, even if you paid cash for the house, you'd probably want to carry some homeowner's insurance with all the inherent risks to the property (arson, vandalism), and I'm sure it's sky-high, given those risks."
2.0,"Even in the center of the business district, there's no traffic and hardly any people."
2.0,Don't believe me?
2.0,"Buy a $100 house in Detroit, and you get a lifetime supply of sleepless nights: you'll spend the next several years waiting for burglars and arsonists, murderers and crackheads to break in the windows."
2.0,It's the Rust Belt.
2.0,"Ultimately, I do believe that change will come to Detroit."
2.0,"The movie wraps up by observing this, how abandoned buildings and spaces are being reclaimed by nature."
2.0,There are neighborhoods that refuse to cave.
2.0,"$1,900!"
3.0,Myself -- Thanks for the comment and the great information.
2.0,Love the fact that people are stealing garden implements (though it's still sad that they need to).
2.0,"And when I'm in the area again, I'll go out to Belle Isle and think long&hard about the future of American cities--as I'm sure you do occasionally too."
2.0,1. Driving a Honda in Detroit right now probably isn't really going to get you welcomed with open arms.
2.0,"See, there's a wee bit of loyalty to the Big 3 and driving a foreign car doesn't really scream ""solidarity"" to those struggling to survive."
2.0,Let me show you the rest.
2.0,Easter Island?
2.0,"He pointed to a row that read, ""Deep Storage: Fort Knox, KY."""
2.0,"Deep Storage: Fort Knox, Ky."
2.0,How's your um... business?
2.0,All that gold in Fort Knox was just too much for me to wrap my head around.
2.0,What if it didn't work?
2.0,"Maybe he didn't know anybody else with ""connections."""
2.0,"I knew every cop in Fairport and quite a few of the state police in Iowa, and I couldn't see them bringing old Charles in as a ringer."
2.0,Hold it.
2.0,He drained the last of his cup and tossed some bills on the table.
2.0,We took his rental car back to the motel where he was staying.
2.0,"The little desk was covered with large books filled with sticky notes, a pile of folders and papers and a laptop computer plugged into the phone line."
2.0,"He mostly read creation stories off objects like the 'Santiago Staff' which said things like, 'All the birds copulated with fish: There issued forth the sun."
2.0,It was those clues that started all of this.
2.0,I was there early.
2.0,I didn't see much resemblance except maybe there were about the same number of points in the cat's cradle thing in the diary and the number of dots on the map showing places where statues stood in a thin line around the coast of the island.
2.0,"I was confused enough I let the ""G word"" slip."
2.0,This is it
2.0,Device?
2.0,It's like sleight of hand.
2.0,"""Mnemonic."" I muttered, which seemed to please him."
2.0,They help in remembering steps in a ritual or ceremonial gestures.
2.0,Now you do it.
2.0,"“As a boy in Bosnia, I walked my dog."
3.0,"“After I got my beautiful black Lab, I finally felt like a human being again."
2.0,"It costs over $20,000 to breed, care for and train a guide dog like “Duke” and to train his blind teammate."
3.0,It’s people like you who make it possible to give the priceless gift of “Second Sight” .
2.0,"I would join the rest of the ship for meals, and I would take my turn in the weight room."
2.0,I did not ask questions.
2.0,(The 'South' was in the title to suggest that there were more ballrooms.
1.0,"“Maybe the universe will end sooner than you think,” said Jefferson."
2.0,"Tiffany, she nodded eagerly."
2.0,"Even if we were traveling at ninety-nine percent of the speed of light—that's assuming you ignore science and pretend that such a thing is possible, because it isn't—we'd still age."
2.0,Give our ancestors purpose.
2.0,"“New hypothesis,” suggested Kishori, slipping into the conversation."
2.0,"Tiffany took a drink, thinking."
2.0,Zheng looked skeptical.
2.0,"“Smuggling,” responded Kishori."
2.0,Did you hear what the captain said earlier?
1.0,"“That's dumb,” said Sarah."
2.0,“The captain selected us for a reason.
3.0,"“I still like my idea,”"
2.0,"“I still like my idea,” said Tiffany."
2.0,"I guess we all figured, he knew what he was doing."
1.0,We're not even going to leave a legacy.
1.0,"“You can't hold on forever, even if you don't ever, ever want to forget. How long until the memories slip away? How long until all you remember is this, the ship, the thick red carpeting, the chandeliers, the empty conversations you hold with the other shells who used to be people? When your life, the reason you lived, the people and faces and places, the emotions you felt, who and what you loved, when all that is gone, faded, what will you have left?”"
2.0,Emily emily em-ill-ee em-i-lee eh-mill-ee eh-mih-lee.
2.0,Traveling on this ship.”
2.0,"“A couple weeks, I guess."
2.0,"She took a sip of her drink, plain water because, she had explained earlier, she had never liked the taste of alcohol, then fixed her gaze on me."
2.0,"I'll figure it out, then I'm going to find a way home.”"
2.0,"The more I thought about it, the less sense the ship made."
2.0,"I had spent weeks asking nothing, contentedly getting nowhere."
2.0,"Another circle of chairs and couches, another uncomfortable question."
2.0,Zheng shook his head and picked up a handful of candied pecans from a little dish on the end table.
2.0,Ray and Zheng exchanged another glance.
2.0,Sarah looked indignant.
2.0,"“Of course we notice. But... well, no one important ever disappears, so it doesn't really matter, does it.”"
2.0,No one contradicted her.
2.0,The scales had tipped.
2.0,"From the looks on my companions' faces, I knew they were thinking the same."
2.0,“Why are you so interested?”
2.0,“Remember? Alexis left.”
2.0,Alexis left.”
2.0,he asked.
2.0,"I inspected the arrays of entertainment options—abstract, old-style flatscreens, engrossing VR flicks and action games, a selection of quondam bestsellers and a few recently released novels hoping to gain popularity."
2.0,I wanted my contentment back.
2.0,I cornered Adrienne at dinner that night.
2.0,"“Tell me,” I said, after we sat, “what you have found.”"
2.0,It wasn't a question.
1.0,"“I don't know much,” she said, still annoyed but at least cooperative."
2.0,"She reviewed the information gleaned from our previous dinner conversations, adding, “I heard the captain say something yesterday, as I walking to the Pyrope Parlor."
2.0,"It was a lie, but we needed information."
2.0,I shrugged.
1.0,"“That doesn't answer my question,” she said."
2.0,asked Kishori sympathetically.
2.0,"“At least have a drink,”"
2.0,"“She doesn't drink, remember?”"
2.0,“You ever heard of Dunbar?
1.0,"“If you dislike this place so much, why don't you do something about it?”"
1.0,"If he refuses, threaten him."
2.0,"Black and more black, speckled by tiny points of light that flared up to break the emptiness, if only for a brief time."
2.0,Everything temporary.
2.0,"And all of us, we were permanent characters in each others' stories."
2.0,"Adrienne looked at me, then back out through the window."
2.0,"“You don't see a meaning because there is no meaning,”"
1.0,I didn't want to be harvested.
2.0,"Life boats, I thought."
2.0,"I'd put on a space suit, I'd get out of this ship, I'd find civilization again."
2.0,A planet.
1.0,"“Relax,” he told me, sliding a needle into my arm."
2.0,It passed.
2.0,This is my Hotel California.
3.0,"Quiet and peaceful, right?"
2.0,"The occasional painting hung on the wall (generic landscapes and portraits of old people no one has ever met, primarily)."
2.0,I asked.
2.0,"She gave me a look, pitying and a little pleased that she got to be the one to share the news."
3.0,"“Honey,” she said, “You're going to be delighted."
2.0,Destination nowhere.”
2.0,"It took me a couple days to realize I was, in fact, still alive."
2.0,"I swore, if I ever had to see a photo of him in a skimpy bathing suit again, giving the camera a cheesy thumbs-up from a lounge chair on one of those white sandy beaches, I'd kiss a monkey."
2.0,"The lightscreen provided had informed me when and where official meals were taking place, but I hadn't bothered to acknowledge the invitations."
3.0,"Man, was it good to be done with that stage."
1.0,It was time to find out what hell looked like.
2.0,"Me, I was singled out by Sarah, an unassuming forty-something lady with a glass of champagne in one hand and the arm of a scrawny but tall blond man in the other."
3.0,I wondered if the food delivered to my quarters the past few days had been similarly amazing.
2.0,The bar was manned by an expensive humanoid robot.
1.0,Still others are less obvious but just as horrible; dogs fighting to the death for the benefit of blood thirsty gamblers; baby calves confined and malnourished to provide “milk-fed” veal for the gourmet; and the “accidental” drowning of porpoises in the nets of tuna fishermen.
2.0,"Today, we are placing special emphasis on pet adoption."
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2.0,I am suspicious of cap & trade.
2.0,My sense is for a simpler system.
2.0,My wife and I have been doing so for a couple years.
2.0,We're a couple months late buying credits for last year.
2.0,I travel way too much.
2.0,I ride my bike to the grocery store.
1.0,"""an unbelievably inefficient way of reducing emissions,"""
1.0,"Professor - stop listening to your ""intuitions"" and do some basic research!"
2.0,"Currently many companies are reticent to putting something in their purchase path as an upsell, just as they are reticent to putting anything in their purchase path."
2.0,"The cost for large companies to make any updates to their e-commerce sites is significant, another factor in keeping the type of program you'd like from being available."
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2.0,But think how much you -- and your loved ones who share this watery planet of ours -- stand to gain if you join.
3.0,Gotta love that understatement and comic timing.
2.0,"This was one of most important quotes from the article: “Invariably,” says Craig, “a black-themed book will come up for consideration, and there won’t be anyone of color to put in an opinion, or there’ll be one, who shouldn’t bear the burden alone."
2.0,I read that article in the Times and IMMEDIATELY thought it was going to be a hoax.
2.0,"But then I thought, surely after all the others, she had been vetted to heaven and back."
3.0,Ha!
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2.0,It's tough to kill the vampire...genre
1.0,You can't.
2.0,Zombies and Vampires and Ninjas and Pirates 25 Jul 2010 by Rick
2.0,"But then the Anne Rice -led revival brought it back (technically the 1st  book, Interview with the Vampire ,  was published in 1976, but didn't gain widespread popularity until later)."
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2.0,"Timex had requested duty-free treatment for many types of watches, covered by 58 different U.S. tariff classifications."
2.0,Price records are being set at auctions this week.
3.0,"""There is finally some sort of sense in the market,"" she says."
2.0,"Corporations and museums are among the serious buyers, giving greater market stability, says Robert Persky of the Photograph Collector."
3.0,"""I'm starting to see more business transactions,"" says Andrea West of American Telephone & Telegraph Co., noting growing interest in use of 900 service for stock sales, software tutorials and even service contracts."
2.0,"Colleges, she says, are eyeing registration through 900 service."
2.0,"In addition, operating results were hit by an increase in loan and real estate loss reserves."
2.0,"Also, substantially lower Dutch corporate tax rates helped the company keep its tax outlay flat relative to earnings growth, the company added."
2.0,The company said its industrial unit continues to face margin pressures and lower demand.
2.0,"Williams shares, which were to be delisted from the New York Stock Exchange after the close of composite trading yesterday, closed at $23.25, off 12.5 cents. Primerica closed at $28.25, down 50 cents."
2.0,Telerate's two independent directors have rejected the offer as inadequate.
2.0,Dow Jones & Co. said it extended its $18-a-share offer for Telerate Inc. common stock until 5 p.m. EST Nov. 9.
2.0,"Under terms of the new proposal, Equus, managed by Equus Capital Corp., Houston, would pay $12 cash and one new preferred share with a liquidation preference of $1.65 a share for each of Tony Lama's 2.1 million shares outstanding."
2.0,"And Patrick Mannix, 46, international technical manager, becomes director of group quality programs."
2.0,"""There is no business reason for my departure,"""
2.0,"1% of Dunkin' common shares, on a fully diluted basis, being tendered and on the withdrawal of the company's poison pill rights plan."
2.0,10 as the deadline for the receipt of any competing bids.
2.0,DD Acquisition said the extension is to allow this process to be completed.
2.0,"Savin cited ""a general softening in the demand for office products in the market segments in which Savin competes."""
2.0,The sale represents 10.2% of Meridian's shares outstanding.
2.0,That amount is convertible into shares of Meridian common stock at $2 a share during its one-year term.
2.0,New loans continue to slow; they were $6.6 million in the quarter compared with $361.8 million a year ago.
2.0,"Under the plan, unsecured creditors, who are owed about $430 million, would receive about $92 million, or 21 cents for each dollar they are owed."
2.0,"After these payments, about $225,000 will be available for the 20 million common shares outstanding."
2.0,"For the year, pet food volume was flat, the company said."
2.0,"Sales in the latest period were $1.76 billion, a 13% increase from last year's $1.55 billion."
2.0,"Ralston Purina Co. reported a 47% decline in fourth-quarter earnings, reflecting restructuring costs as well as a more difficult pet food market."
2.0,This year's results included a gain of $70.2 million on the disposal of seafood operations.
2.0,"Already many foreign firms, especially banks, have their own cryptographers, conference speakers reported."
1.0,"No personal computer, not even the one on a chief executive's desk, is safe, this speaker noted."
2.0,"W. Mark Goode, president of Micronyx Inc., a Richardson, Texas, firm that makes computer-security products, provided a new definition for Mikhail Gorbachev's campaign for greater openness, known commonly as glasnost."
2.0,Many will use a common editorial.
1.0,"A final statement yesterday said: ""While some advances are being made in nations throughout the hemisphere, the state of press freedom in the Americas still must be regarded as grim as long as journalists and their families are subject to the crudest form of censorship: death by assassination."""
1.0,"""Noriega has closed every independent newspaper, radio and television station and arrested, tortured or forced into exile a long list of reporters,"" the statement declared."
2.0,"Robert Merkel, a former U.S. attorney handling drug indictments in Florida, doesn't think for a minute that Castro's much publicized trials of high officials engaged in the drug trade mean he has broken off with the Medellin drug cartel."
2.0,"The challenges we face are daunting, to be sure."
2.0,"Once again, please accept my warmest gratitude for your past support And please, take a moment today to renew your critically important WWF annual membership."