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...counter at Pinky's, a downtown lunch spot, Mark Murphy, a heating technician, expresses anxiety about his relatives back in Jersey City, N.J., but he can't muster much concern about himself. Like a lot of Montanans, whose state ranks near the bottom in per capita income and near the top for residents with multiple jobs, he's preoccupied with the poor economy. "People here are just worried about feeding themselves and having a job," he says. This comment draws nods from diners on nearby stools. It has been a long winter--they are always out here--and the white...
...Polk & Co. survey that they value their SUVs for driving in harsh weather. But while four-wheel drive can help you blast through snow even as light rear-wheel-drive cars spin out, it won't help you stop on slick roads. Says Joe Orlando, spokesman for the New Jersey Turnpike Authority: "People think that if they are in a four-wheel drive, they can go through anything." Orlando, who owns two SUVs, had to go on TV one recent snowy morning to ask SUV drivers to slow down. "We had a really high number of accidents that...
Over 600 fans watched the Crimson victory. Among those in attendance was Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers, who sat on the Crimson bench during the game and wore a red Harvard jersey...
...Last Amateurs,” which hailed the Patriot League—a small conference which grants few athletic scholarships—as one of the last remaining bastions of amateur athletics. In contrast, Feinstein pointed to the University of Maryland’s decision to retire the jersey number of former star Steve Francis—who declared for the NBA draft after just one year in college and never graduated—as representative of many schools’ misplaced priorities. “Harvard doesn’t want that. Harvard shouldn’t want that...
Kreindler’s first air disaster case came in 1952 when a National Airlines DC-6 crashed in Elizabeth, New Jersey. For the case, Kreindler worked at an airplane maintenance shop to learn the design of the plane. The knowledge he gained from that experience helped him craft a propeller-failure theory that persuaded a jury to award what was then the highest award in an air crash suit to his client...