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...result, the poor have no choice but to accept insecurity and instability as a way of life. But when governments grant people legal means to control their assets, they empower them to invest and plan for the future. In San Francisco Solano, a barrio outside Buenos Aires, Argentine economists studied the experience of two communities--one that received title to its land in the early 1980s, another that did not. The group of neighbors that had received legal title to its land surpassed the group without title in a range of social indicators, including quality of house construction, education levels...
...such incident involved American Airlines flight 1348, which was supposed to fly from San Francisco to Dallas on Dec. 29. The flight was among the 69 that American diverted that day because of storms in Texas. Passengers aboard flight 1348 ended up landing in Austin and sitting on a tarmac there for almost nine hours before they were allowed to deplane because no gate was ready. But according to the BTS records, flight 1348 was simply "diverted." "It's like our flight didn't even exist," says Kate Hanni, a passenger onboard flight 1348, which she says had overflowing toilets...
According to a report in the San Francisco Chronicle, former Crimson center Brian Cusworth has been added to the Golden State Warriors’ summer league squad...
...Shortly following the announcement in December of 2003, former Spanish Development Minister Francisco Álvarez Cascos likened the project to those of the Suez Canal in the 19th century and the Panama Canal in the 20th century. But unlike those grand feats of engineering and technological prowess, the building of the Gibraltar Tunnel seems more like a symbolic endeavor that the world can do without...
...Where poverty doesn't correlate closely with race, socio-economic status can be a bust. San Francisco stopped using race to assign students in 2001 and adopted a plan based in large part on economic factors like a students' eligibility for housing assistance or the free-meals program. Though the city's school district says it is "racially and culturally diverse" overall, it admits that its individual schools "have severely resegregated...