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...home. If that thought makes you carsick, a used car might work. Of course, used cars are less expensive, and insuring them costs less. Sure, a used number carries more risks, but in this certified-preowned-vehicle era, a model that has historically retained its value - say, a Honda Accord EX or a Subaru Outback - can often promise years of strong, relatively maintenance-free driving...
Gates attributes the island's racial accord to the fact that Martha's Vineyard is "one of the oldest, if not the oldest, places in America where African Americans can own beachfront property." Residents also never got too hung up on the issue of racially integrated beaches, which elsewhere had offended the propriety of some whites. (See pictures of world leaders on vacation...
...ships toward low-lying clouds, which would then reflect more sunlight. Another more extreme but oft-discussed option would involve putting mirrors into the earth's orbit. If those ideas have the disadvantage of sounding convoluted, they have the real advantage of being cheap - at least in relative terms. According to the new paper by Lane and J. Eric Bickel of the University of Texas, the seawater-mist method could counteract a century's worth of warming for $9 billion. Compare that to the political complexity and the economic unknowns associated with a meaningful and enforceable global climate accord...
...says, looking out over a neighborhood that was nearly leveled by the fighting last year. "My neighbors have enough of their own problems to not dwell on my last name. Sometimes they even come over to ask if they can help repair my house." Those are rare moments of accord in a region that will likely be torn apart by ethnic tensions for a long time to come...
...nominee's purported history of "judicial activism," Youn looked at every constitutional case - 1,194 in total - decided by the judges of the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals during Sotomayor's decade of service. The study used three major measures: whether the votes of each judge were in accord with his or her colleagues'; how often the judge upheld the action of another government branch; and how often the judge deferred to the lower court or agency decision under review. (Read "What the Court's Firefighter Ruling Means for Sotomayor...