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Clearly there's a gap in racial understanding that needs to be bridged. A 1996 Amnesty International report said that New York's populace is 57% nonwhite, but the police force is 72% white. Even some cops are fed up. "For years the police department has allowed crime to concentrate and flourish in certain areas, and overnight that has changed," says Anthony Miranda, head of the Latino Officers Association. "We now have aggressive enforcement without any understanding of neighborhoods or history. We have gone from a tolerance of crime in certain areas to zero tolerance without any concern...
Providing even less reason to fret over your financials is a plethora of positive data from the Fed, suggesting that with the economy holding its own, interest rates will likely be left untouched. In the absence of "irrational exuberance" warnings from Mr. Greenspan, you may want to hop on board and enjoy the ride...
...though the fins are being fed to starving children. They're used in Asia for shark-fin soup, a delicacy that fetches up to $150 a bowl. The market for shark fins is incredibly profitable; U.S. fishermen earn as much as $25 per lb. for fins, compared with 50[cents] per lb. for shark meat. The trade has grown dramatically since commerce with China began expanding in the 1980s: some 125 nations are now involved...
...group is especially concerned about the potential for outflows from mutual funds, which have become swollen with individual's deposits this decade. One of the group's first courses of action during a crash would be to call fund companies to monitor activity. Another virtual given is that the Fed would cut interest rates, as it did in 1987, putting enough money into the economy to ease bottlenecks. That single act--cutting rates--is widely viewed as having greatly limited the carnage...
...before sundown, the wagon train made camp. I had walked only a few miles that day, but I was parched and exhausted. A meal was served. I sat in the dirt and devoured a plate of meat loaf, while around me devout believers watered horses, repaired bent wagon wheels, fed bottles to crying infants. In just a few days, to quote their ancestors, they would cross the mountains and be "safe in Zion." I could not help wishing them well. In their epic trek across Smith's American Eden, they have lost more paradises than they've found...