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Bustling commuters attempting to park next to Boston’s Government Center MBTA stop on Friday were in for a surprise—one spot had been converted into a park. The barricaded parking space—adorned with potted plants, flowers, and a bed of grass—offered passersby a chance to sit in the sun as part of the National Park[ing] Day event. Started in 2005 as a collaboration between Rebar, a San Francisco art collective, and The Trust for Public Land (TPL), a national conservation nonprofit, the event is a one-day global event...
...that he voted with Bush over 90% of the time. The economy is tanking, and McCain is still insisting that the fundamentals remain strong; he's also been a consistent vote against financial regulation, a strong supporter of investing Social Security benefits in the stock market and a recent convert to the Bush tax cuts. Voters prefer Obama's positions to McCain's on almost every major policy issue, and the Republican brand still seems toxic. The Obama team believes, as campaign manager David Plouffe says, that "at the end of the day, this is going to come down...
...After dominating the first half, the Crimson came out sluggish in the second, surrendering an astounding five corners in just the first seven minutes of play. Then only minutes later, Harvard gave the Badgers a sixth attempt on which Wisconsin was finally able to convert. Off of a perfect cross, a diving Badger forward headed the ball in past a diving Mann. It was the only blemish on the standout keeper’s card on the day. But after the goal, the Crimson responded, picking up the tempo and eventually regaining control of the ball...
...like the passage where Mary goes to Reno for her "quickie" divorce (there was, in those days, a six-week residency requirement). More important, she has given most of The Women's women jobs (notably Annette Bening's Sylvie, a hard-pressed magazine editor). She seems to want to convert her version of the play into a tract for our times; you know, something about the difficulties of having a family and a career simultaneously...
...first, about that dubious past. Sasol's origins can be traced to the work of two German scientists, Franz Fischer and Hans Tropsch, who in 1923 came up with a process to convert coal to liquid fuel. When Adolf Hitler seized power in coal-rich, oil-poor Germany in 1933, the Nazis used the Fischer-Tropsch process to help power their military expansion across Europe; during World War II, Germany was producing 125,000 bbl. of synthetic fuel a day at 25 plants. After the war, a South African entrepreneur called "Slip" Menell bought the South African rights to Fischer...