Word: boom
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...Expansion and growth are keywords throughout the fine arts world of Boston these days, and many other museums in the area have dedicated themselves to new building and development, including the Museum of Fine Arts and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. With this building boom, Manoogian says, “Boston is becoming more of a hub for art museums...
...boom in street lit has led to an equally potent, if not predictable, backlash from black writers with a more literary bent. "I've heard from agents and writers, all telling me the same thing," says author Nick Chiles (In Love and War), who blasted street lit in a New York Times editorial earlier this year. "There's all this talent out there that five years ago editors would have been clamoring over, and they aren't getting a shot. I've seen a waning of the industry's interest in contemporary black fiction...
...Thaksin Shinawatra last month, Thailand's growth was decelerating, in part because of rising oil prices and months of political gridlock. But the new regime will not necessarily make things worse. "The coup creates near-term uncertainty, no question," says emerging-markets expert Marc Faber, publisher of The Gloom, Boom & Doom Report. "Having said that, I don't think this will have a huge impact on the financial and manufacturing sector." In a reassuring move, the new administration tapped central-bank governor Pridiyathorn Devakula, a respected technocrat who helped extricate Thailand from the 1997 Asian financial crisis...
...trickle of water for flushing. His neighbors, he says, "came and asked me why I built it and how it worked ... I told them what I had learned and they listened and then went home and built their own toilets." More than 25,000 households joined the latrine-building boom in just three years. The number of people with access to a latrine in Banja district rose to 86% today from 3% in 2001. Toilets became status symbols. "Some people are building latrines nicer than their houses," says Gabeyew Tarekegn, who lives in a nearby village. Worku says that...
...millionth American will be born this month. The only major industrial nation experiencing a population boom--due mostly to immigration--the U.S. will probably hit 400 million...