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...Conn., just outside New Haven,” isn’t worth much on the New York social exchange. This emphasis continues beyond those first weeks of freshman year. Regardless of their professional aspirations, grads flock to the city’s bright lights and high energy. Undergrads flee there during summers to boost their résumés, in hopes of becoming the New York graduate...
...post, though not a fully-realized research report, suggests that the increased minimum wage—more than $2,000 per year for each wage earner working full time—could have made the difference for many of the poor New Orleans residents who were unable to flee Hurricane Katrina. Imagine. What if just 100 people would have left New Orleans if they had had a few thousand more dollars to spend on transportation and hotel rooms? How many people lost their lives because the Louisiana Supreme Court didn’t think New Orleans had the right...
Finally, she had to flee once more, eventually relocating to a remote settlement called One-Man's Village. She runs a makeshift hair salon and sets aside a couple of hours each day for HIV/AIDS advocacy. But "my people need me," she says. "They have sent messages to me that I should come back...
...contrary, Summers–as his recent marriage engagement demonstrated–likes smart women, but fears critical Faculties.) Men prefer women who make less money than they do. Men feel threatened when women pay, while women are offended when they are expected to go dutch. Men will flee at the sight of a large paycheck, or a large brain...
...whack rivals down in the flatlands of Calabria and beyond. Three years ago, local police discovered that town funds had been used to construct an intricate system of escape hatches leading from the center of town through the underground sewage system to help wanted men flee the authorities. After pointing out several of the concrete covers now blocking the hatches, a police officer notes the surreptitious signals from a few locals as they pass by. It means, he says, "we're being watched." Part of what makes 'Ndrangheta so hard to crack is the way it can still rely...