Word: gray
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...just how high expectations became on a quick tour of the Neustadt residential district on the western edge of Halle. Neustadt is a depressing example of Soviet-style urban planning, with row upon row of gray concrete blocks, built in the 1970s to house some of the 40,000 people who worked at the chemical factories that once dominated the local economy. Firms with names such as Buna and Leuna belched pollutants into Halle's air while churning out products whose quality lagged far behind western examples...
...School has announced a Masters of Law program designed specifically for deferred associates. A number of firms have also begun matching their recruits to pro bono opportunities. That's the option University of Pennsylvania Law School graduate Susan Wilker took when her job at Boston law firm Ropes and Gray deferred until at least January. Wilker will have her health benefits paid and receive $60,000 for working at Massachusetts Appleseed Center for Law and Justice, a nonprofit that focuses on education discipline and juvenile justice. "Because I know I can go back to Ropes in 2010, I am really...
...Canadian, many are not even Canadian. I asked Shanahan for an exciting fact about himself, and he thought for a moment. "I have a photographic memory in any sort of movie game," he said. I pressed him for something else: "My beard grows every three hours and looks completely gray. I make Brett Favre look young." Seriously, the NHL has got to abandon this beard campaign...
Environmental groups were already less than enthusiastic about Salazar heading the Interior Department. A Democratic senator from Colorado, Salazar was a rancher more attuned to the idea of using nature rather than protecting it, and he angered greens early by removing the Western gray wolf from the endangered species list. As the head of Interior, he'll be making decisions on whether to open up new land to oil and gas development, and the polar bear ruling has some environmentalists worried. "This does raise a red flag," says Noah Greenwald, program director for the Center for Biological Diversity, which...
...majority in three decades; metropolitan voters and young voters who skew Democratic are also on the rise. This is why Rogers recently decided to quit being a talking head: "I had a meeting with myself, and I said, Do we really need more white lobbyists with gray hair on TV?" But it's not clear that more diverse spokesmen or better tweets can woo a new generation to the GOP; support for gay rights is soaring, and polls show that voters prefer Democratic approaches to health care, education and the economy. "The outlook for Republicans is even worse than people...