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...traveled from Shostakovich, Russia, to Omaha, Neb., in the early 1900s at the age of 14. Life would be good in Omaha, assured an immigration officer in Galveston, Texas, where Louis initially landed. He was right. Ten years later, the newcomer had earned enough to get his sisters Celia, Dora and Riva to the States as well. Together they would form the roots of the Albert family tree in the nation's heartland--one with long branches that would eventually stretch from Los Angeles to Denver to Mendham...
...senior men, each representing a different resistance cell with at least two dozen foot soldiers apiece, carried sidearms. Abu Ali gestured toward each man, who in turn rattled off his area of operation. The place names sketched a map of trouble spots for the U.S.: Baghdad, Dora, Hilla, Abu Ghraib, Fallujah, Ramadi...
...mass casualties from a biological or chemical assault, says the report, a copy of which was seen by TIME. The experts urge, among other things, avoiding drinking tap water during the Games in case it is deliberately poisoned, and sharply increasing blood supplies at Athenian hospitals. Athens Mayor Dora Bakoyianni insists that "all measures that are humanly possible are being taken." Greece, she says, has already increased its security budget for the Games by 25%, to €650 million. Even so, many countries have decided to manage their own security. The U.S. is dispatching 100 security agents for its athletes...
...universe. His parents and brother escaped to Argentina with their lives and not much else. But Newton insists that once he was set loose on the world, he was always having a high time of it, a refugee libido forever being washed ashore into the arms of Mary or Dora or Louise...
...Americans as the largest minority group in the U.S. According to Susan Porjes, a retail analyst based in Honolulu, Hispanic parents spend a higher percentage of their income on children's clothing than other ethnic groups do. That helps explain why Target has licensed characters from the Nickelodeon show Dora the Explorer (whose title character is Latina) and why Kmart has signed the Mexican pop singer Thalia to develop a line of clothing...