Word: baye
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Home to soccer moms, strip malls and some of the best schools in California, Elk Grove was one of America's fastest-growing cities in 2005. Its population shot up from 75,900 to 130,874 (including a boundary extension) in five years, as families and Bay Area investors flocked in, lured by low prices and no-money-down mortgages. Seven years ago, developers carved a new district, Franklin Reserve, out of hunting grounds and dairy farms, building 7,000 homes in three years to satisfy an insatiable demand for California living. But the slowing market threatened to dismantle...
...blood. Abandoning the purple onesie and disco ball, she has reinvented herself yet again, this time as M-Dolla: the prize-fighting urban pop queen. If the album cover is any indication, she’s back with a vengeance, determined to keep her competition at bay...
...live in a hundred-year-old house overlooking the harbor, the straits, and the bay. From the bedroom window, I see an island of ghosts. It is a peaked mountain shaped like a peasant's conical hat. A hundred years ago, the island was the quarantine station for Chinese immigrants, some detained so long they wrote poems about loneliness. No one lives on the island anymore. At night, it is a purple shadow. Sometimes I think about the young woman whose father built her this house a hundred years ago. She must have seen lanterns blaze on the island...
Until Air Force Colonel Morris Davis resigned in protest last fall, he was the gung-ho chief military prosecutor in charge of all cases at Guantánamo Bay. But before the end of April, Davis will be on the witness stand, testifying in defense of Salim Ahmed Hamdan, Osama bin Laden's onetime driver. Davis will swear, according to court papers, that top Pentagon officials interfered in planned detainee trials, subverting the judicial process for political reasons...
...John Winthrop, the Puritan leader and first governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, was involved in the slave trade and donated books valued at ?20 to Harvard in 1658, marking the first time Harvard received money marked by ties to slavery...