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...knew a flood was raging in from the Bay of Biloxi because the water was rising rapidly in the storm drain on his street. But what worried the high school history teacher more was the debris clogging a larger storm drain nearby, part of a network designed to draw off flooding from Biloxi's coastal areas. If the drains didn't function, Jones knew, then inland neighborhoods like his would be violently deluged. Moved PermanentlyMoved Permanently
...challenge of "stupid poverty"--the people who die for want of a $2 pill because they live on $1 a day--was enough to draw Gates away from Microsoft years before he intended to shift his focus from making money to giving it away. He and Melinda looked around and recognized a systems failure. "Those lives were being treated as if they weren't valuable," Gates told FORTUNE in 2002. "Well, when you have the resources that could make a very big impact, you can't just say to yourself, 'O.K., when I'm 60, I'll get around...
...primitivism," but even his biggest fans were disconcerted that a minor civil servant could rise to such heights. Some said he painted "without thinking," others claimed he worked under spirit guidance. In fact, he put together his dramatic tableaux using photographs, postcards, book and magazine illustrations, and drawings of plants or scenes he made on the spot. Stories of life in the bloodthirsty wild were popular in his day, and the source material on show includes an album he owned called Wild Beasts with "around 200 amusing illustrations of the life of animals with instructive text." Along with his eccentric...
...starting in the center, and spreading outward to build as large a coalition as we can,” said Samwick. But the authors also acknowledged that real political difficulties remain. Making the PRA contributions mandatory, requiring annuitized withdrawals, and increasing the retirement age are all proposals likely to draw fire from various groups, the authors said. But despite their controversial nature, they are all much-needed reforms, stressed the authors. “We believe it is time for the President to call Congressional leaders together for a social security summit,” Liebman said...
...very different from the way it works here. That was really inspiring, and that’s what made me declare my special concentration focus on Central European drama. I guess more than any director, I would say a place, Central to Eastern European culture, is where I draw my inspiration from...