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...Ladder trucks, fire engines and support vehicles recovered...
...owners, lots of doctors and, increasingly, university professors. There are very few poor among them. Since many arrived in the 1960s as students, says Professor John Esposito, head of the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University, "it's remarkable how fast they are making it up the ladder. And the next generation is expected to do better." They are social conservatives: more than 65% voted for George W. Bush. They are pro-gun control, pro-environment and pro-death penalty. They are proud of their country. And they are viscerally--indeed, theologically--antiterrorist. One of the first clerics...
...queens--into homes across North America, Europe and Asia. Home to three of the world's highest-grossing acts--Britney Spears, 'N Sync and Backstreet Boys--as well as a significant roster of rap, rock and R.-and-B. performers, Jive has climbed to the top of the industry ladder by understanding, reflecting and influencing mass-market tastes to a greater degree than anyone else. Which may be why your sixth-grade daughter tried to leave the house in a halter top last week...
...upside is that such a tax cut goes to the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder - even those who don't make enough to pay income taxes chip in a slice of their wages for those entitlements. Those are the people who missed the boom and are getting hurt most by the bust - and, some economists say, they're the people most likely to spend the money and keep the economy above water until businesses start making capital investments again...
...urging him to concentrate on his studies. But he phoned one of the agencies and ended up doing a soap commercial. "Only my body was shown," he says. An agent later suggested he try movies, so he went for an audition. He got the part and has climbed the ladder to stardom, usually playing handsome teenyboppers. "That good-looking face," he says, "can become a handicap, at least in acting...