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MODERNITY Before the Gulf War, Baghdad was a gleaming, modern city with air conditioning, touch-tone phones, clean water and sanitation. Today the power supply is unreliable. Many middle-class families, desperate for cash, are selling their appliances on the street. Iraq has 26 heavily censored Internet centers, but one hour of surfing costs about $1; the average government worker's monthly salary is just...
...fifty-fifty suburbs--middle-class areas divided almost equally between Latinos and others. (Think of the rapidly growing Riverside and San Bernardino counties farther east of L.A.) Thirty percent of the customers at the Santa Fe Springs Gigante are non-Latino, and the hope is that diverse offerings and clean, wide-aisle comfort will bring that number up. Gigante also plans moves into Northern California, Nevada and Arizona, first in Latino areas and then elsewhere...
Cogen thinks you can, and he's not alone. In 1990 the Clean Air Act capped emissions of sulfur dioxide, a major contributor to acid rain, and ordered that they be gradually reduced. The government issued "allowances" to companies and let them trade polluting rights on the open market. A power company that cut its emissions at relatively low cost could sell its leftover emission rights to another utility facing higher costs for pollution control...
After a relatively clean first half that saw Yale go to the line only three times while the Crimson was shut out, the Bulldogs made 28 second-half trips against Harvard’s nine. With Yale shooting better from behind the arc, the trips to the line were a killer for Harvard...
Winning handily, Cole stopped on two separate occasions to tear off his cap and wipe his goggles clean...