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...particularly suited to the Prius. Gas prices have skyrocketed from $1.60 a gallon last summer to nearly $2. And the state has some of the toughest vehicle emissions regulations in the nation. Morrissey, full of environmental evangelism, has already persuaded one co-worker and one neighbor in her affluent Mill Valley suburb to go hybrid. "You always hear that the Japanese are better at copying and refining than actually creating an idea," says Morrissey. "But the Prius is an example of true innovation...
Living underground, in the Harvard Square MBTA station, Rodolfo, Marcello, an artist (Lee M. Poulis ’02), Colline, a philosopher (Alexander Prokhorov) and Schaunard, a musician (David Howse) are inhabitants of one of the busiest and most affluent parts of Boston yet, they have little employment opportunity as artists; their craft is created for and enjoyed only by the leisure class, which derives its leisure from the exploitation of the underclass...
Clinton said he felt our pain, but then he schmoozed with ultra-affluent Hollywood types, acquiesced to the whims of big donors, took things from the White House and retired to extravagant, upper-crust digs. Bill and Hillary Clinton are the American version of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos. LINDA A. BIELINSKI Bartlett...
...geographic area. The range is approximately $300 to $1,000 for a labor doula, and postpartum specialists charge hourly rates of $15 to $35, though often with a 15-hr. minimum. As doula services are not yet covered by medical insurance, most doulas say their clientele tends to be affluent...
...from some of the community's old guard. But the phenomenon could no longer be covered up after Oct. 2, 1999, when Florida officials working on a tip from neighbors removed a 12-year-old Haitian girl--filthy, unkempt and in acute abdominal pain from repeated rape--from the affluent suburban home of middle-class Haitian-American merchants Willy and Marie Pompee in Pembroke Pines. The girl, a restavek, said she had been forced to have sex with the Pompees' 20-year-old son Willy Jr. since she was nine. The father and son, who police...