Word: franciscos
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Miraculous new communications technologies have suddenly appeared, transforming everyday life. Everything is moving discombobulatingly fast. Globalization accelerates. Wall Street booms. Outside San Francisco, astounding fortunes are made overnight, out of nothing, by plucky nobodies. The new media are scurrilous and partisan. Marketing spin and advertising extend their influence as never before. A fresh urban-youth subculture has emerged, rude and vibrant, entertainment-fixated and violence-glorifying. Christian conservatives are furiously battling cultural decadence, and one popular sect insists that the end days are nigh. Ferocious anti-immigration sentiment is on the rise. Both major American political parties seem pathetically unable...
Back in the U.S., it took only a year after the discovery of gold to turn the sleepy little town of San Francisco into a boisterous city, the largest place west of Chicago. Modern California was born. More important, the Gold Rush was a ratification of the most fantastical version of the American Dream, the yearning for instant fortune and easy prosperity, for extreme liberty and land free for the taking from the natives. When they heard the news out of California, Marx and Engels understood that this bizarre phenomenon was another way in which the U.S. might not conform...
...kill us all," she told TIME. Around midnight, she and other residents heard the sound of tramping boots. As soldiers moved toward the compound, the Black Hawk was joined by a second helicopter. At about 1:45 a.m., they landed in the corn patch tended by Jose Francisco and his family, 50 m below the rebel compound. Francisco says he saw dozens of heavily armed soldiers emerge from the Black Hawks. Then he heard a loud explosion from the house followed by gunfire from the rebels, who were screaming obscenities in the local Tetum language. The Australians charged...
...south of Madrid, suddenly donned skirts. In an effort to promote "equality in traffic safety," the town has begun installing lights that flash up alternate male and female figures; metal signs are also being amended. "[Old] traffic signals leave half the population invisible," says local police chief José Francisco Cano. The inspiration for change came from the city of Lugo, which marked International Women's Day 2006 by taping transparencies of female figures over the standard striding males on traffic signals. Fuenlabrada's solution will be more permanent. So far, only four egalitarian signals and 25 metal signs...
...barbarians at the gate--Henry Kravis of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and David Bonderman of Texas Pacific Group (TPG)--have a little tree hugger in them. Even before the deal with TXU was sealed, the buyout shops called up environmentalists and, in a 17-hr. meeting at San Francisco's Mandarin Oriental Hotel, agreed to roll back carbon emissions from all TXU power plants to 1990 levels by 2020. Four days later, the company's board accepted the buyout offer, agreeing to drop controversial plans for eight of 11 new coal-fired power plants and to support a federal...