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...course ridiculous to accuse even H2 buyers of lending support to terrorists--just as it would be silly to call them patriots because their big-ticket purchases help the economy. But the SUV boom does raise serious questions that affect everyone who owns an SUV or drives near them: Are these vehicles safe? How much are they fouling the air? Are they making us more dependent on oil pumped in places where people burn U.S. flags before breakfast? While no one should demonize SUVS, is it fair for the government to subsidize them with tax breaks and regulatory loopholes...
...Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Tourist arrivals hit 393,000 last year, nearly returning to pre-civil-war levels. And some visitors are finding the country's Buddhist sites and exquisite beaches so charming?and safe?that they want to claim a permanent piece of paradise. A mini property boom on the southern coast has begun...
...course, Mrs. Beardsley also let my friend Judi Fay (daughter of Salvation Army ministers) do an extra credit project in our biology class freshman year in which she presented alternative theories to evolution—namely the good ole literal reading of Genesis in which there was a big boom (but not a Big Bang) and God created the world...and you all know the rest. My question surfaced then...
...baby boomers cozily nestled between parted stacks, Cohen braved last Friday’s snowstorm to speak about her latest book, A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America. Even C-SPAN was undeterred by the weather, arriving in full force with cameras and boom microphones to hear Cohen kick off the Harvard Book Store’s spring “Friday Forum” series...
...tell her we might still be interested, the price had risen to $5,500. Not even the Turkish lira inflates as quickly as rent for a Shanghai apartment. In the end, we finally settled on a unit in a 1930s apartment building built during Shanghai's last great boom. Once, the Grosvenor House was one of the most prestigious buildings in town, known for its sweeping garden and Art Deco touches. Today it's been eclipsed by the behemoth modern villas that dot the city. But for us, it's home?until it, too, becomes too rich...