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...More important, however, is the where. In Latham's infancy, his working-class family moved from inner Sydney to one of the nation's major experiments in public housing - the Green Valley estate on the city's southwestern fringe. The area was settled before basic services - sewerage, hospitals, child care, transport and leisure facilities - were established. The self-proclaimed champion of the urban sprawl was Labor leader Whitlam, federal member for Werriwa (1952-78). He put suburban issues into the mainstream of politics. "I was always interested in why Green Valley didn't have the sort of facilities that other...
...Lasker award has been awarded by the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation in three categories—basic medical research, clinical medical research and special achievement—for the last 50 years...
...polls three times in the space of a year. That's a tall order given the widespread and escalating insurgent violence: As the Iraqi electoral commission works on voter rolls in one part of the capital, U.S. warplanes drop bombs on buildings in another. Still, voter registration and other basic infrastructure arrangements are currently on track, according to electoral officials. Rather than setting up registration stations that could be attacked by insurgents and requiring Iraqis to face intimidation from naysayers upon entering and leaving, the electoral commission - comprised of a UN adviser and eight Iraqi technocrats appointed...
...QUOTED AS SAYING "I'M NOT THE historian. I'm the guy making history." Yes, but what kind of history? Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussein were also the guys making history. It is amazing and frightening that the head of the U.S. military is intellectually incapable of perceiving some basic distinctions. Those who want to see what kind of history Bush is making should have a look at his unmistakable cowboy posturing...
Born in 1931 or 1932, the Bronx Boys attended P.S. 80, after which most went to the Bronx's DeWitt Clinton High School and local colleges. Many entered the Army at the same time and were in basic training together at Fort Dix, N.J. "We still hug when we see each other, and I'm sure people look at us and say, 'What are those old guys doing?'" says Joe Greenberg, a retired engineer in Rockville, Md. "Joey? Howie? Georgie? What kind of names are these? We were a bunch of buddies, and as we got older, we stayed...