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...came west from New York and Chicago, Anna May grew up watching movies made on the streets near her home. Her laundryman father tried to beat (literally beat) a dutiful girl's sense into her, and told her she was disgracing the family, as we learn from Graham Russell Gao Hodges' thorough biography Anna May Wong: From Laundryman's Daughter to Hollywood Legend. But Anna May couldn't get the dream out of her head. Because she was tall and graceful, and because her big eyes gave her a maturity beyond her years, she found work as an extra...
...general secretary of U.S. Soccer, even before the American women's team's draining, dramatic penalty-kick shoot-out win over China on Saturday, 'no matter what the score is going to be.' But when defender Brandi Chastain blasted the team's fifth penalty kick past Chinese goalkeeper Gao Hong after 120 scoreless minutes, including two overtime periods, the American put a fitting exclamation point on a summer of soccer that had swept the nation off its feet ... This sweet, sweet victory was very much an act of faith?not the end of a game so much...
Shortly after the CSPIRG study’s release, national legislators called on the General Accounting Office (GAO) to launch an investigation of publishers, ensuring that they were not engaging in price fixing or other dubious acts to keep costs high for students. CSPIRG’s report, “Ripoff 101: How the Current Practices of the Textbook Industry Drive Up the Cost of College Textbooks,” also led to hearings this summer before a subcommittee of the U.S. House Education Committee...
...general, the price of textbooks has skyrocketed. According to The National Association of College Bookstores, textbook prices have risen nearly 40 percent over the past five years. If the GAO concludes that the publishing industry is swindling students, they must be reprimanded and Congress must ensure that they are held accountable in the future. New textbook editions and software add-ons must be warranted in order to relieve the financial burden on students...
...according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), even a stripped-down Stryker weighs 19 tons, two more than the C-130 routinely carries. And Iraq has exposed the Stryker's shortcomings. To protect against rocket-propelled grenades, common in every war zone, the Strykers in Iraq wear a 2.5-ton cage of steel. This also makes them too large to fit aboard a C-130. The steel cage is only a temporary fix. But the final solution--form-fitting armor that will be ready next year--weighs even more, 4.5 tons, and takes 10 hours to bolt on. That...