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...league's fastest growing revenue stream comes from new stadiums, which are also a product of the recent centralization. Under a program called G3, the league grabs $1 million in television revenues from each team and uses the money as collateral to float bonds for stadium construction. The NFL has loaned $725 million to help build or renovate 20 stadiums in the past 10 years. Total investment: $3 billion, $2.4 billion of which has been put up by owners. To keep those projects going--new stadiums are abuilding in Dallas and Phoenix, Ariz.--the league maintains in-house finance...
...correctional supervision”—prison, jail, parole or probation—nearly four times as many people as in 1980. It is estimated that, on any day, upwards of one-third of black men in their twenties face this reality. With black women as the fastest growing prison population in the United States, perhaps similar statistics may not be too far behind. Our politicians speak of the success of the need to be “tough on crime,” but our law and order regime is not quite what it seems on the surface...
...meter run, less than four seconds behind New Balance runner Roisin McGettigan. The time did not match the automatic qualifying time for the NCAA championships, but it likely qualified Scherf for the provisionals.“I was definitely happy with my race. It was the fastest time I’ve ever run,” Scherf said...
...whether or not one believes that our current energy supply is detrimental to the weather, the effects of burning coal and oil are felt at home, and in our lungs, every day. The stuff that comes out of power plant smokestacks has contributed to make asthma one of the fastest growing childhood ailments in industrial and developing countries alike, and has also recently been linked to lung cancer. Here in Massachusetts, where five power plants burn thousands of tons of coal every year, the effects on surrounding communities are significant. A 2000 study by the Harvard School of Public Health...
...TRILLION Number of calculations IBM's new Blue Gene/L performs per second, making it the fastest supercomputer in the world...