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When did Hello Kitty spread across the globe? -Sonika in Edison in New Jersey Nobody knew her in 1984 in the U.S. where I spent a year designing and people referred to Kitty just as a cat. In Japan it was in 1997 that the celebrities began to talk about her as being a cute character thus generating a boom. The same phenomenon occurred in the U.S. and later, from around 2002, in Europe...
...third generation of African-American political leadership but not necessarily the good kind. Its previous two black mayors--Kenneth Gibson and Sharpe James--became ensnared in fraud and corruption prosecutions (Gibson was ultimately acquitted; James was not). Booker, 39, is something else entirely. A child of the New Jersey suburbs and a graduate of Stanford and Oxford, he faces an uphill battle in transforming Newark's troubled urban landscape...
...third generation of African-American political leadership but not necessarily the good kind. Its previous two black mayors-Kenneth Gibson and Sharpe James-became ensnared in fraud and corruption prosecutions (Gibson was ultimately acquitted; James was not). Booker, 39, is something else entirely. A child of the New Jersey suburbs and a graduate of Stanford and Oxford, he faces an uphill battle in transforming Newark's troubled urban landscape...
...author identify in their review have been around for some time, but have only recently been studied. Many others appear to be new. About 8% of them, mainly those in the Baltic and North seas, persist throughout the year, says Diaz; half, including one the size of New Jersey in the Gulf of Mexico, form mainly seasonally, typically beginning in summer after the spring thaw and receding in the fall. Overall, the researchers found that the number of new dead zones has grown exponentially over the past four decades...
...response to this notion, the Center created a workshop called Ready to Run, a primer on campaigning for women. In New Jersey, where Ready to Run has been operating for 10 years, more than a quarter of the women who've attended the workshop have run for office, and 70% of them won their elections...