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...like to do the same for the NFL's less than sterling record of hiring minorities for top coaching jobs. "I could be politically correct and say, No, [race] is not a barrier," Smith says. "But race will always be a part of life." The Detroit Lions invited Smith to interview for a head coaching job in 2003, when he was defensive coordinator of the St. Louis Rams, but he declined, sensing that Detroit was ready to hire someone else. "I don't believe in token interviews...
...House Armed Services Committee Chairman Duncan Hunter, a Republican from California, is a wall man; he wants to fence the southern boundary of the range. More cameras to watch the region might help, he says, but a physical barrier is essential. He hopes to replicate the success of the triple-layered fencing outside San Diego that led to a 70% drop in illegal immigration there. That's why he wrote Rumsfeld personally about fencing the range and co-sponsored the Secure Fence Act, a law on President Bush's desk that requires at least two layers of reinforced fencing...
Although street lit's roots reach back to the 1970s and the novels of Donald Goines and Iceberg Slim, the development of cheap digital printing smashed one barrier to entry. And the advent of Amazon, which diminished the need for display space in bookstores, smashed another. So street-lit authors had a route around mainstream publishing houses. Following the success of The Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Souljah in 2000--it sold 475,000 copies--a flood of gritty, self-published crime novels hit the market. What street-lit authors may have lacked in wordsmithing, they made...
...Ruth during spring training, O'Neil joined the Monarchs in 1938 after their first baseman broke a leg--a move that led to his friendship with teammate Satchel Paige. O'Neil later became a Chicago Cubs scout--he signed Hall of Famers like Lou Brock--then, in 1962, a barrier-breaking coach. But he never forgot his sporting roots, and wrote,"The Lord has kept me on this earth to bear witness to the days and glories and men (and women) of the Negro leagues...
...Nando started a program employing 300 people who cleaned up mangroves ripped out by the waves and replaced them with live plants in order to restore the shoreline's potential for shrimp and crab farming. An additional 25 hectares were planted along the coast to act as a natural barrier against future tsunamis. Now, with normalcy returning to the lives of the area's fisherman and farmers, Nando and her colleagues talk to residents one-on-one about the long-term benefits of preserving their environment...