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These days the fall begins in mid-August: the return of routine and new backpacks and the sudden loss of leisure that comes with the burst of the New Year. For that is August's real purpose on the calendar, to be its dying days, before autumn comes and the air is fit to breathe again and everything starts over--football season, TV season, fourth grade and the chance to break all the resolutions made on vacation for the year ahead...
...event on April 17, Alex and her family attended a T.G.I. Friday's near her hometown of Warren. Some of the restaurants reported higher than usual attendance for a Tuesday night. One mother of a 17-year-old autistic boy came up to thank Alex and then burst into tears telling her how wonderful it was to be able to go out to a restaurant with her son and not have people make comments. She told Alex she would never forget that evening...
...native workers. Locals complain that the workers from abroad will be a drain on the island's welfare system. "We worry that they will stay here and exploit our infrastructure," says Svetlana Soldakina, a local activist. "It's not that our island is unfriendly, but our city will burst...
...added, "If I were not running, I'd be supporting him." The new early-state focus is also a defensive move. The latest polls show Mitt Romney solidly ahead in both Iowa and New Hampshire. Giuliani can't afford to let the former Massachusetts Governor get a dangerous burst of momentum just before the round of all-important big-state primaries...
...California. In 1958 he started his own aerospace firm--Kavlico's first contract was with General Electric, designing feedback sensors for an atomic-powered airplane--and soon began investing, with extraordinary success, in California real estate. When he sold the company in 2000--just before the Internet-stock bubble burst--the undisclosed selling price was big enough to allow Kavli to return to the great unanswered questions of basic science that had long fascinated him. He wanted to endow major prizes for research in his astro-nano-neuro triad, the fields he thinks will produce the most exciting discoveries...