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...HOLLIS catalog and a slew of other resources for books and articles. The website says that it is designed for “an initial search for articles and books in broad topic areas,” which makes it perfect for quickly finding sources to get an initial foothold for further research...
...Louisiana the cleanup of the two-part disaster is just getting started. But many of the state's best engineering and environmental minds are already looking much further down the road, at what it will take to safely maintain humankind's precarious foothold at the water's edge. Louisiana's coastal towns have vowed to rebuild, but will they ever truly be safe...
...California, where it lost a bid to open in Inglewood in Los Angeles County but succeeded in Oakland. Wal-Mart is also pushing for a store on Staten Island in New York City. While not exactly the "inner" city, a Staten Island location would give Wal-Mart a foothold in New York. In the long run, Scott believes, the company will win more often than...
...India. As the nation's business capital, Bombay is a crucible of such hopes, drawing families like Afzad's, which came to the city's northern slum of Saki Naka 15 years ago. Living 10 to a two-bedroom shanty, they had television, electricity and a telephone, and a foothold in India's city of opportunity. "It was a good place," says Afzad, age 14. "We stayed put here...
...India's hopes, drawing families like Afzad's, which came to the city's northern slum of Saki Nagar 15 years ago from a village hundreds of miles away in the interior. Ten people living in a two-bedroom shanty, they had television, electricity and a telephone, and a foothold in India's city of opportunity. "It was a good place," says 14-year-old Mohammed. "We stayed put here...