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...remarkable extent, housing drove the entire economy. Real estate, residential construction and three other housing-related Labor Department job categories together add up to 6.6% of U.S. employment. But they accounted for 46% of the new jobs created in the U.S. between January 2001 and May 2006, when the sector peaked...
Burma's military government is good at two things: cracking down on peaceful demonstrators, and coolly ignoring any international criticism that might follow. Both skills have been on full display in recent weeks, as anger over high fuel prices drove a few courageous people onto the streets, only to be met with the expected heavy hand. If the junta has one bedrock policy, it's to prevent any repetition of the 1988 uprising that came so close to overthrowing decades of army rule. Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer once remarked sagely that progress in Burma is like glue flowing...
...enjoy racing historic motorcars from the '50s and '60s. The seed of my interest was planted when I was about 12 years old and took over my mother's Morris Minor. I drove it around my father's farm. But my favorite car is still a McLaren F1, which I have had for 10 years...
...revolutionary genre of bebop, visionary bandleader Max Roach made percussion a star player. He backed Duke Ellington and Charlie Parker as a teenager, and on seminal recordings ranging from Parker's Ko-Ko to Miles Davis' Birth of the Cool sessions, he created rich, complex, melodic sounds and drove rhythms disturbed by loud bass-drum beats, sudden silences and offbeat riffing. After his hugely successful quintet dissolved in 1956, following the death of his friend and band co-founder, trumpeter Clifford Brown, he tumbled into a severe depression. When he surfaced Roach pushed himself into new endeavors: agitating for racial...
...Arellano, an undocumented immigrant who had spent a year holed up at Chicago's Adalberto United Methodist Church while defying a deportation order, made a risky move: she emerged from the storefront church, drove from Chicago to Los Angeles, and gave a series of very public speeches over the weekend. By Monday, the 32-year-old single mother was in Tijuana, having been arrested and deported in one fell swoop...