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This is how empires rise and fall, pulling our fortunes along with them. Start with virgin territory: back in 1957, the Rosen brothers of Baltimore flew over Cape Coral, Fla., in a plane, liked what they saw, paid $678,000 for the farmland and started dredging 400 miles (640 km) of canals, which is more than Venice can claim. It was a peaceful place for old people - Cape Coma, folks called it, until about five years ago, when the gold rush began. College kids were waiting tables to buy condos and flip them; speculators got into bidding wars on unbuilt...
Could there be a worse time to start an airline? OpenSkies lifted off last June, as the global economy was seizing up. Even though airlines got cost relief via collapsing jet-fuel prices, the deepening recession has caused demand for seats to fall faster than supply could be shrunk. The result: airlines are suffering, as usual...
...made faces. You’ve hurt my kidney, the critter whimpered.” Though the reader and Bachmann eventually learn that Schnotz was once just as inhuman a soldier as he is now a woodland critter, Schnotz’s Gollum-like wildness emphasizes his pathetic fall from the military, society, and humanity. In addition, Lind captures his subjects with kind of dual childishness and precision; in sketching the form of Bachmann’s girlfriend Helga, he writes, “Before their eyes stood a Valkyrie in a short blue dress, disclosing stout calves and powerful...
...applied to a number of colleges in the fall of my senior year," Chu writes, "but because of my relatively lackluster A-average in high school, I was rejected by the Ivy League schools, but was accepted at Rochester. By comparison, my older brother was attending Princeton, two cousins were in Harvard and a third was at Bryn Mawr.... As I prepared to go to college, I consoled myself that I would be an anonymous student, out of the shadow of my illustrious family...
Before entering college last fall, volleyball freshman Matt Jones set a goal for himself. “I definitely came in wanting to play right away,” Jones says. “I figured that if I come in and work hard, I would get my shot.”He certainly got much more than he wished for.As personal ambition turned into reality, Jones quickly transitioned from an anxious rookie to a regular starter who has become a dominating force on the court. His contributions have rejuvenated a Harvard team currently sitting atop the EIVA Hay Division...