Word: metropolitane
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Carleton Varney tells the story of the legendary interior decorator, documenting her most famous achievements, like the old cafeteria at the Metropolitan Museum...
...thought it was a metropolitan megacampus, or any campus at all, better guess again. By the sheer number of credentials granted, it's the American Council on Education, a Washington-based lobbying group that moonlights as the proprietor of the General Education Development, or GED, Testing Service. In 2004 alone, the Council granted over 400,000 GED certificates to people of all ages, most of them high school dropouts...
...Wallace is not the only Texas Republican expressing an interest in DeLay's seat. Harris County Judge Bob Eckels, the chief executive officer for the county that includes most of the metropolitan Houston area, may make a run, as well as Houston attorney Tom Campbell, who won 30 percent of the vote in the March primary against DeLay. But given his personal and political connections, Wallace appears to have a jump on the others...
...good news is that we have a communications system in place among the agencies, we have better equipment to train responders and we have a greater habit of working together than we did five years ago," says David Snyder, a Falls Church, Va., councilman who serves on the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments' homeland security task force. "The problem is that the linkages between these different systems and agencies are extremely weak...
...what the flooding from Katrina did to New Orleans, and the vividness of what it means to a modern city to lose so much housing and so many jobs has given the 1906 centennial a somber emotional edge. At risk in this case is not just a very large metropolitan population--the Bay Area now has about 7 million residents versus perhaps 800,000 in 1906--but also a vibrant $350 billion economy that includes one of the nation's largest financial hubs, one of its busiest ports and one of the world's densest concentrations of technical and scientific...