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Meanwhile, Keys is working her songbook. While some performers get tired of playing their hits, Keys continues to look forward to the moment in every show when she gets to dust off Fallin'. "I drag it around like a damn badge of honor. So many people told me that that song in particular would never work. 'It's too urban, it's too black, it'll never cross over.' The fact that it was successful told me one thing: Nobody knows anything," she says. "A lot of those people who doubted are out of jobs now," she adds. Keys will...
...moving closer to the carnage, a police officer told her, "Sorry, beyond this you will be walking on bits of people." Inside the consulate, the body of Short's husband Roger, 58, a career diplomat, was buried under a six-foot pile of wreckage. A rescue worker, cloaked in dust as he frantically dug, reported, "We're not pulling anyone out intact...
...Jordan is going, the rest of the world won't see anything but his dust. He is responsible for nine of eBay's 23 merchandise categories--including motors, electronics, sports and collectibles, each with more than $1 billion in gross sales. He also proposed eBay's two most successful acquisitions: PayPal, known for simplified electronic transactions between buyer and seller; and Half.com a website that sells secondhand books, music and movies...
...felt confined by the work. So she joined WorldTeach and now instructs Marshall Islands high schoolers in science. At 75, she's handling myriad problems, from logistical (her science books crumble in the salt air) to physical (the school has no janitor, so she swabs floors, sweeps coral dust and empties trash bins in her classroom) to intellectual (though she's a science instructor, her students' difficulty with English means she also teaches ESL). "I really believe that because I must use both my body and my mind in this endeavor, I have probably kept myself in greater mental...
...Vegas, then bet on Reno. His employees took some persuading. Mohidul Saad, 38, a software engineer, learned of the impending move this past summer. The Bangladeshi native and his family had grown attached to their ethnic community in the Bay Area and thought of Reno as a dust-choked gambling town. They have since changed their minds. Weeks ago the Saads moved into a large home with a garden and pool--a far cry from the modest town house they had planned to buy in San Francisco--and are even meeting other Bangladeshis. The excitement of a town...