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...every year people wait until the last minute to leave, causing massive logjams on roads and highways. Frantic shoppers fight for supplies and hoard gasoline. One in three Florida residents does not even have a survival kit, and 10% do not know if they live in a mandatory evacuation zone. Nearly 15% of those polled in the Atlantic and Gulf coastal states said they would refuse to leave their home even if they were ordered to evacuate...
...Power of Billions Thanks to Jeffrey Sachs for daring to suggest that no one should hoard tens of billions of dollars in personal wealth [May 21]. Infatuation with the marvels of capitalism has made such talk almost heresy, but champions of free enterprise also need to heed common sense and common decency. Wouldn't we all be much richer if our entire human family were fed, clothed and educated and had access to basic medical care? L. Patricia Arias, DECATUR, GEORGIA...
KUALA LUMPUR Aficionados, like Malaysian hip-hop artists Joe Flizzow and Point Blanc, hoard Nike's Air Force 1 ($94), a top seller around the globe for 25 years...
...This system would also end the inequitable distribution of dining costs. Under the current system, the most popular dinner foods often vanish by 6:30 p.m., leaving late eaters at an unfair disadvantage. Under a “privatized” HUDS system, students who want to hoard three dozen cookies will be forced to pay for their consumption. More likely, they will choose not to consume so many. Thus, those who truly value cookies will be able to get them, while those who simply want to abuse their access to the common food resources will be dissuaded...
...thought that maybe I’d be able to return to Cambridge, dejected like my athletic peers, and find solace in the company of my Harvard classmates. But what did I encounter instead? A locked gate to the courtyard of my house and a hoard of Princeton rowers taking away space from good, clean, honest Head of the Charles fans...