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...Seattle Sonics are probably going to move to Oklahoma City. You appear to be sending the message that communities need to shoulder enormous financial burdens to build arenas (which some think are unnecessary), while you let team owners make enormous profits. We are losing confidence in you and the league. How do you respond? -Tim DeJong, ClevelandI welcome the criticism. I would say that a good number of our franchises are not profitable. So there are many owners who would raise their eyebrows at the charge that they are making enormous profits. I think that the ideal partnership...
...called the dead zone. Agricultural fertilizer byproducts like nitrogen are running off farms and into the Mississippi River, which then spills out into the Gulf of Mexico. Those chemicals help feed crops on land, but as they build up in the still, warm waters of the Gulf, they in turn feed excess growth of algae. When algae dies and decomposes, the process sucks much of the oxygen out of the water. A sea without oxygen is little different from the surface of the moon - nothing can live there. Fish and other sea life flee, or suffocate. That's the Gulf...
Recruit admissions? Not even going there. I totally understand legacy preferential treatment. The Allston campus isn’t going to build itself, now is it? But most of these athletes won’t bring Harvard a dime...
...It’s not supposed to be easy to become a biomedical researcher,” Casey said. “But it is an insurmountable challenge to tell young people to wait until 40 to build their career...
...town center, a young couple with a baby say their biggest financial burden is their rent. Ahmadinejad's government started a scheme to lease land to poor families for 99 years and to allow them to build houses with government financial support. The couple signed up for the scheme and have already paid the equivalent of $60 to the government. "If it comes true, we'll definitely vote for Ahmadinejad in the next round, but we're not sure about majlis yet," says the 29-year old mother, Mrs. Pahlavani...