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Congressman Rahm Emanuel boasts that ?patience ain?t a virtue in my book,? and that's especially clear when the feisty Democrat from Illinois is trying to recruit candidates to run in November's mid-term elections. Last summer, for instance, when Emanuel tried to convince Heath Shuler, former star quarterback at the University of Tennessee, to run for Congress from his native North Carolina, he had to make a hard sell. Shuler said he was worried he wouldn?t get enough time with his two young children if he was constantly shuttling back and forth from Capitol Hill...
...Violent crime in New Orleans was virtually non-existent after Hurricane Katrina last fall. The police chief even joked that the city felt like the fictional Mayberry. But there are signs that the city's notorious violence has started to return. Three people were shot and wounded in mid-January during a "second line" parade as social clubs marched in support of New Orleans' rebuilding effort. Crime has also been a major issue during discussions of how to rebuild the city's poorest-and often most crime-ridden-neighborhoods. A new study from Brown University concludes that...
...chase the "The Flying Tomato," the women's competition is a two-rider race. Teter, 18, and defending X-Games champ Gretchen Bleiler, 24, fuel the most intense rivalry in the sport. Both can land the top women's move, the 900 (two-and-a-half spins in mid-air), with ease. And they do it while eyeing their antagonist. "We'll be like hanging out at the top, and I'll say, like, 'So you're going to push me tonight?'? says Teter, who is friends with Bleiler off the pipe. "And she'll be like, 'Yeah...
...result of the acquisition binge: HSBC's asset base exploded, from $472 billion in 1997 to nearly $1.5 trillion by mid-2005. The bank has a global footprint matched only by that of Citigroup, which has slightly larger assets than HSBC. HSBC has also become a very, very different bank. In 1997 nearly half its revenues came from emerging markets; today less than 20% does, according to Morgan Stanley...
...Work in the outdoors is largely a seasonal business, and the chills of mid-October brought Kleinschmidt’s Green Mountain Club work to a close. When she returned from the trail, she dusted off her degree in biology and mind, brain, and behavior, and spent the fall and early winter in Boston working in a neurobiology lab at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center...