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...Baby Boom Lisa Takeuchi Cullen's "The More The Merrier" brought back memories of growing up as the oldest of seven children [Dec. 17]. Every summer my family would pile into our Ford station wagon for a trip back to Pennsylvania to visit the grandparents. It was guaranteed to be a hot, noisy, cramped trip. But watching drivers' mouths move as they counted each one of us packed into that car made it fun. We often thought of placing a sign on the window that said, YEP, THERE'S NINE OF US IN HERE! The size of my family never...
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...nervous about? There's an anxious optimism in Louisiana. An optimism where people know that our state can be better, but an anxiety that if we don't get it right now, we may not get this chance again in our lifetimes. I've described this as the fourth boom cycle in my lifetime in Louisiana. We had an oil boom, a gambling boom, and a health care boom. Whether this is being caused by the hurricane recovery or the oil and gas economy, it's another boom. There's over a billion-dollar surplus. The last three times there...
...white mare being the traditional conduit for the groom in Hindu and Sikh weddings in northern India, those who make such steeds available for rental have experienced a business boom thanks to Indians' increasing penchant for ostentatious weddings. Wedding planners in Delhi report that the cost of hiring mares has risen at least twofold over the past five years, and more people are opting for the even more elaborate two- or four-mare carriages. Since at any given time there are only 500 or so white mares stabled in and around Delhi, rental prices can rise tenfold or even more...
...President's aloof and distant style will soon fade into the ANC's past, but its failure under his leadership to redress the country's growing economic apartheid could dog the party for years to come. Mbeki has presided over eight years of economic boom in South Africa, and the country is predicted to grow by around 5% for the next five years. But the poor have hardly benefited. Official unemployment figures stand at 26%, and a November study by South Africa's Institute for Race Relations found the numbers of people living on less than $1 a day rose...