Word: across
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Most of the country, that is, except for Berkeley, the city that invented the Sixties. This university town across the bay from San Francisco may be the only place in America where a cry of "power to the people" isn't hopelessly outmoded and ironic. Berkeley's storied liberalism is still in evidence: On the campus of the University of California, for instance, a marker on Sproul Plaza declares the spot "shall not be a part of any nation...
...station is owned by the not-for-profit Pacifica Foundation, which operates four other left-wing radio outlets across the country. In recent years, the individual stations have increasingly clashed with the foundation about autonomy and appeal to broader markets. That clash came to a boil in March, when Pacifica fired KPFA's popular station manager, Nicole Sawaya. When veteran DJ Larry Bensky questioned that firing on the air, he was fired too. Listeners lodged complaints, Pacifica hired armed guards, and on July 13 KPFA's staff found themselves locked out of their own building, a broadcaster pulled...
Disposable people, everywhere. Every face I come across is a new possibility, and a sealed certainty. Could we become friends? Perhaps. And if this person should leave my immediate circumstances, could he exit my memory, and I carry on to encounter new possibilities without loss? Definitely. Could I make his remembrance not count? Easily...
Puny humans felt a collective shiver across Europe and Asia Wednesday as nature served notice of its potency. For two dark, cool and eerie daytime minutes, the sun was a black hole in the sky as the moon shuttered parts of the earth from its rays. And hundreds of millions of people from England to India dropped everything to behold the power -? most evident by its absence -? of the star?s light. Even as thick cloud obscured many in Britain and Western Europe from a clear view of the last solar eclipse of the millennium, the masses crowding beaches, city...
...result of budget constraints, reduced staffing and a shift in manpower to its customer-service department. Agents will conduct face-to-face exams on an estimated 0.38% of all individual income-tax returns this year, down from 0.51% in 1998 and 0.65% in 1997. While audits are down across the board, those with high incomes or who file business schedules remain the most frequently targeted groups...