Word: malls
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...Worried about finding a way to keep your youngster busy this summer? Concerned that another job at the mall will expose your child to a rough element? The Bush administration has the answer in a regime that will build character, strengthen the adolescent back and help America climb out of its crippling energy crisis. As the Vice President pointed out in his 170 page report of the National Energy Policy Development Group, America's appetite for coal, oil and nuclear power will require production of a new power plant each week for the next 20 years. That means we need...
Only a decade ago, Stonewall overlooked a two-lane road in a rural county of cattle farms and Civil War battlefields. Today, Manassas is a bustling exurb of Washington, and Stonewall abuts a shopping mall with high-tech neighbors such as Lockheed Martin. Commuters face a 90-min. drive to Washington, making attendance at concerts and teachers' conferences problematic. And high schoolers at Stonewall, like those everywhere, are prone to reply to "What happened at school today?" with a sullen "Not much...
...most chilling dimension of Friday's violence that killed at least 16 Israelis and Palestinians and wounded more than 100 is that it came as no surprise. First a terrorist attack by a Hamas suicide bomber killed seven Israelis at a shopping mall in Netanya; then at least nine Palestinians were killed when Israel retaliated by, for the first time in the current conflict, using F-16 fighters to bomb Palestinian targets on the West Bank. Save for the times, places, weapons and targets, the attacks were almost predictable. And while the Israeli government blames the Palestinian Authority...
...they go about their daily chores, cooking and cleaning for the equivalent of five basketball teams' worth of children, Green's wives appear to have no regrets at marrying so young. "I feel I gained. It is better than being a teenager hanging out in a mall or getting pregnant without a husband," says Hannah...
...legislation that finds its way to the Commerce Committee is expected to try to strike a very tentative balance: Expand states' sales tax collection authority, but only if at least 25 states simplify their own multiple tax rates. A coalition of retailers and mall-owners, including Wal-Mart, is lobbying for sales taxes to apply equally to all sales, and 32 state legislatures have already begun to get together to try to pave the way to a simpler national sales-tax picture. Tech companies, meanwhile, have begun to soften - as long as compliance burdens are reasonable. Says committee chairman John...