Word: arizona
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Organizers of the campus groups supporting two of the GOP frontrunners—former Massachusetts Governor W. Mitt Romney, a graduate of both Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School, and Arizona Senator John McCain—said they were unable to give specific membership numbers for their groups...
...Bautista is back - working for his uncle in a new carpentry business financed by a microcredit bank that the wives in Santa Cruz founded recently with all that remittance cash. Bautista made $6 an hour picking strawberries in Arizona, more than many laborers in Mexico earn in a day. But he's hopeful that he can comfortably support his wife and new baby by crafting doors, cabinets and coffins, products that people in Santa Cruz and surrounding villages once had to travel miles to buy. "I didn't want to start a family al otro lado," Bautista says, as wood...
...Brooklyn (with the most, about 12%, coming from East and Central Harlem) even though men in those 14 areas make up just 17% of the city's total population. Similar patterns can be seen in places like Phoenix--where one community, South Mountain, is home to 1% of Arizona's total population but 6.5% of the state's inmates--and Austin, Texas, where one section has 19% of the city's population but 27% of those on probation...
...lesser extent - as in one less marriage - Arizona Senator John McCain has the divorce problem as well, but that's not the worst of it, in Land's view. "The problem with McCain, and I don't know how he fixes it, is that they believe he's pro-life - he cares about the unborn - but he's so unpredictable. What makes him appealing to independents makes him worrisome to social conservatives. They say, 'Yeah he's pro-life, but will that have anything to do with who he nominates to the Supreme Court?' He's very unpredictable, and people...
...customers care whether their food is local. Most who do, shop at farmers' markets. Also, there's not even a standard definition of what local means. To Nabhan, who inspired many local activists with Coming Home to Eat, it means eating within a 250-mile radius of his Arizona home. Many who blog at a site called eatlocalchallenge.com aim for a stricter "100-mile diet...