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...parched Las Vegas, Mulroy knows price is one of the best tools at her disposal to control the city's growing thirst. In the spring, officials approved a staggered rate hike that increased prices for low-volume users 17% and for the highest-volume users more than 30%. The city has also unleashed its water cops--officials like Dennis Walker who ride around sprawling new housing developments looking for violations of outdoor-water-use laws. Sprinklers are illegal during the daylight hours, and homeowners have to use a misting system rather than simply hose down the grass. Through ignorance...
...ongoing struggle with brain cancer and what will likely be his last term as a U.S. Senator, Kennedy has not only witnessed but also participated in much of America’s commendable progress over the last half-century. He has known, intimately, the lowest lows and highest highs of his country’s flight to its present (precarious) position. And he has personally demonstrated both the selflessness and the ardor needed to move mountains and make change, not only for Massachusetts residents but for millions of Americans over the years. Even as Kennedy used his time to commend...
...despite the outreach, response to the district’s efforts appears to have been “sparse,” Gee said. Although he was not present at all of the locations, he said that the highest turnout he saw at a single meeting was about a dozen people...
...first proposal would increase the minimum SAT II score necessary to place out of the language requirement from 600 to 700. Compared to its peer institutions, Harvard has the lowest SAT II, yet the highest AP score requirements to place out of taking a language, the committee found...
...bombings and violence never has before. However, lost in the eulogies to those trapped within the Taj Mahal hotel and the Oberoi-Trident, are the 56 people shot on the same night at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, a central rail station for the transiting working class. It was the highest death toll for a single site during the three days of chaos. Many of the dead there were laborers. "For whom is the [Taj Mahal hotel] iconic?" asks Gulan Kripalani, the executive director of the Mumbai-based NGO, Citizens For Peace. "My maid has lived in Mumbai all her life...