Word: islandness
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After studying the exotic wildlife of the Galápagos Islands, Charles Darwin surmised that animals can develop unique traits when they evolve in isolation. In the tennis world, Rafael Nadal is such an animal. Based on the island of Majorca, Nadal and his family shunned mainstream training programs as he grew up, preferring the more homespun methods of Rafael's uncle Toni, whose tennis credentials consist of a brief stint competing on the national circuit. Passing up funding from Spain's national tennis academy, and scholarship money from America's private academies, Rafael and Toni would travel...
...former six-term Democratic Senator from Rhode Island, aristocratic Claiborne Pell, 90, helped pass the 1972 law that created Pell grants for college students. The program has funded millions of higher-education opportunities...
PHANTOM OF THE OPERA sequel set in Coney Island?! Whatever. It's going to make a billion dollars anyway...
Perhaps investigators can take note from Captain Kidd, who in the late 1600s - and not far from Madoff's Montauk estate - roamed northern Long Island and Gardiners and Block islands, burying his stolen treasure. Maybe SEC investigators and Madoff's many thousands of victims should bring shovels and start digging, fast...
...began the year with, which is not a bad thing. It would have been better if we made some money obviously, but we essentially have a billion dollars in reserve.” Massachusetts ended November with $1.4 billion in its unemployment trust fund. In comparison, neighboring Rhode Island finished the month with under $100 million, and Michigan, hit hard by the auto industry’s collapse, is in debt by roughly half a billion dollars and is implementing a “solvency tax” on some employers to help replenish its fund. The National Employment...