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...levels of distrust in the African-American community are higher than I've ever seen them," says Lance Hill, executive director of the Southern Institute for Education and Research at Tulane University, an organization founded in 1993 with the mission to counter prejudice and improve race relations. Hill, who is white, led a grass-roots campaign to defeat David Duke, the former Klansman who made it into a runoff in Louisiana's 1991 gubernatorial race; racial tensions in the aftermath of Katrina, Hill says, are even more stark than those that surfaced during that watershed event...
...jars with layers of rice and fermented for weeks, like pungent cheese. These days, of course, sushi is as innocuous as a Big Mac, and just as ubiquitous. In The Zen of Fish, Trevor Corson reports that even the Wal-Mart in Plano, Texas, has its own sushi counter...
...takeoff caused a recent flyer to initially doubt the improved 76-seater. Once the plane is cruising, though, Bombardier's noise-and-vibration-reduction system (cousin to technology used in submarines) monitors sound levels through microphones inside the plane walls. A computer initiates vibrations through special absorbers to counter those from the propellers, reducing the resonance of the airframe and hushing the cabin about 4 db quieter than many jets. ATR upgraded its four-blade propeller to a six-blade fiber-composite one with a smaller diameter that generates less vibration and cabin noise when coupled with other noise-dampening...
...addition to improving risk strategies to counter market uncertainties, HMC will launch a Web site next month and publish an annual report beginning next year, unprecedented moves for the historically secretive group. Given continued worries in the credit market, El-Erian warned in his annual letter to Harvard affiliates that the high returns from the past year should be viewed as including some "windfall gain" as opposed to indicating a future trend of equal performance. "It's one thing to have a good year, but it's also important to build the foundation for continued long-term institutional excellence...
...Prosecutors will argue that, even if the Manganos never expected or intended anyone to die, they are still responsible for not heeding mandatory evacuation orders. The defense will counter that the state should have had procedures in place to evacuate those most in need, and have issued subpoenas for Louisiana Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco's and former U.S. Army Corps of Engineers commander Lt. Gen. Carl Strock, whose agency was responsible for the levee system. "The whole theme here is that this is the government's fault, including the Corps and the governor," Ciolino says...