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...fact, rising rates should be met with cheers, not jeers. They confirm the recovery. Companies can start raising prices, allowing them to start hiring again too. Business is so good at Pine Hall Brick Co. in Winston-Salem, N.C., that the company raised prices 3% in January--its first increase since 2001 for face brick used in housing--and plans a similar price increase next year. The company is doubling output at its Fairmont, Ga., plant and boosting head count 8%, to 320 workers. "We designed the plant to double capacity over three years," says president Fletcher Steele...
Spring has finally come to Cambridge. The air smells of lilac; flip-flops slap the brick sidewalks. Hemlines go up. Seersucker and madras glow prematurely, like early gladiolus. We are 19, or 20, or 21. During the day, we sprawl on patches of grass to sunbathe and complain about how much work we have to do, our voices floating to each other, languid, in the warm air. At night, music and laughter from formals drift from house courtyards out over the river...
...Iraqi prison couldn't be further from home for those facing career-ending charges in the scandal. The 372nd Military Police Company, a unit of reservists based in a one-story brick building in Cresaptown, Md., draws most of its members from small, down-at-the-heels towns in the green valleys of Appalachia. Many sign on as teenagers, as England did, to get college benefits. Others, like Staff Sergeant Ivan (Chip) Frederick, are eager to see a bit of the world. Patriotism runs deep in this part of the country, and recruitment ads for the armed services constantly stream...
...targets were members of the Mahdi Army, a band of militants loyal to the firebrand Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who has holed up in Najaf for the past month to avoid capture by the 2,500 U.S. soldiers surrounding the city. As the Volvo neared the tiny brick-and-reed building, a gunman in the car opened up with his AK-47, hitting one of al-Sadr's men. Mahdi Army members say they ran the Volvo down, killing one of the three gunmen and capturing the remaining two. But other witnesses say the car disappeared into...
Fifty years after Brown, the city's storied past as the epicenter of school desegregation remains evident. Still standing is the tidy brick schoolhouse of the once segregated Monroe Elementary, which Linda Brown attended when her father Oliver sued to gain admission for his daughter to an all-white school closer to their home. Now a national historic site, Monroe is also the future home of the educational Brown Foundation, run by Linda and her younger sister Cheryl, which awards scholarships and publishes literature commemorating the case. Not far away is the Thurgood Marshall Bridge, namesake of the N.A.A.C.P. special...