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...extracted the concessions at a time when the company's profits for 1995 and 1996 totaled $11.8 billion. To put that figure in context, it would be enough money to run the West Carrollton schools, where most Moraine children attend classes, for the next 400 years. As 1997 gave way to 1998, GM dangled the possibility of yet another plant before the Moraine city fathers, and they jumped. This time the tax relief amounts to an estimated $28 million--or about $156,000 for each of the 180 new jobs to be created...
...text andalmost provide a pictorial text on their own. Attimes, the book can be academically dry; at othertimes, it can be preachy. It is dry, however, onlywhen the writers attempt to integrate too manysources without enough commentary; it seemspreachy only when taking on homophobia anddiscrimination. Given the nature and context ofthese flaws, they are certainly forgivable
Eventually political dialogue will devolve into textual analysis in dead languages. Christians have argued that the Jews are immoral because they killed our saviour. Must we entertain such blatant nonsense, even for a moment? Clearly couching social debate in the context of personal religious experience is untenable...
Finally, homosexuality tends to lower population and thus could be an incredibly useful tool in the modern social context. Perhaps it is time that the essentially anachronistic practice of heterosexual monogamy disappear. NATHAN W. HILL...
...with koalas. Australian culture, except for some of its pop music and literature, is wretchedly underreported in the U.S. In fact, this is the first effort ever made by an American museum even to show any images made in Australia in the 19th century, let alone give them context and historical placement...