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...mentioning my initiative to name this decade the Unies in her Brief History [Dec. 28--Jan. 4]. It is nice to see people taking note of the efforts being put into finding an appropriate way to refer to the 2000s. The "unification of the Unies" is also a great phrase to describe what happened during the past 10 years, as we saw the world become a smaller place. We saw the rise of Twitter, blogs, Facebook, MySpace and Wikipedia. We have more ways to communicate. During this decade, we became more unified...
...Dust Bowl years of the Great Depression, farmers who fled West out of the prairies found a paradise of citrus groves in Southern California: miles upon miles of navel and Valencia oranges, planted in a vast swath of Riverside and San Bernardino counties, which stretch from East Los Angeles to the Arizona and Nevada borders. Starting in the 1970s, that area, now known as the Inland Empire, became a mecca for a new kind of homesteader: young families lured by cheap land and an easy commute to L.A. By 2008, it was home to 4.1 million people...
...pretty much played 60 minutes of hockey, which we haven’t done in a while,” Kessler said. “It was good to come away with the victory and great to come away with three points, but I think ultimately our goal was to come away with four points this weekend...
...means a lot,” Kessler said. “Obviously it’s great to set records and what not, but I think it’s ultimately about the team and it’s a victory for the team...
...It’s great to have my teammates support me like that,” Kessler said...