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...blue-festooned sign at the United Airlines ticket counter reading, WARNING! FIREWORKS FORBIDDEN IN YOUR CARRY-ON AND CHECKED LUGGAGE. VIOLATORS MAY PAY LARGE FINES AND/OR SERVE UP TO FIVE YEARS IN PRISON. But waits at the security checkpoints (six have just been added, bringing the total to a generous 20) were usually less than five minutes, and passengers seemed to be handling the preholiday stress well--even the infirm elderly woman who tripped a metal detector and had to laboriously remove her black orthopedic shoes for inspection and watch her purse being ransacked before she was carted off, exhausted...
...Indianapolis, Ind. On Brown's first day in New York City, in 1945, he won a place in Dizzy Gillespie's famously fast-paced, tuneful bebop quintet. A longtime member of the Oscar Peterson trio--hailed by many critics as the best ensemble of its kind--Brown, a generous mentor to younger musicians, later played in an early incarnation of the Modern Jazz Quartet. He collaborated with vocalists like Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald, left, who became his wife, and performed on some 2,000 recordings, including the early signature One Bass...
...fixed-price system offering producers a long-term subsidy over the market costs of electricity production. Spain is now the second-largest market for wind power within Europe after Germany, having grown an average of 59% a year over the past three years. Spain has enticed big developers with generous offers of financial support in return for agreeing to open factories for wind turbines, creating thousands of new jobs. In all, Europe accounts for 70% of the world's wind-power installations. Interestingly, Britain and France have the highest level of wind resources in Europe, but their programs are still...
...team deeply appreciates the funding we get from the Friends of Harvard Rowing and the University and without their generous support I do not think that it would have been possible to have each crew perform as well as it did last weekend,” Riffelmacher continued...
...defined by the white men's journals. The Mandan, who fed them, danced with them and offered them sexual favors over the bitterly cold winter of 1804-05, were described as good neighbors. The Lemhi Shoshone, Lewis wrote, were "not only cheerful but even gay, fond of gaudy dress...generous with the little they possess, extreemly honest..." He admired the Chinook for their canoes, "remarkably neat, light and well adapted for riding high waves" but disparaged their "well-known treachery...