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...city: Detroit. A few years ago, white rapper was almost an oxymoron. In the Motor City, however, a kind of groundswell is under way. In the past few weeks Kid Rock, smarty-pants rapper Eminem and the horror-hip-hop duo Insane Clown Posse--all from the Detroit area--have scored...
...Stephen Bechtel, construction magnate --Leo Burnett, advertising genius --Willis Carrier, maker of air-conditioning systems --Walt Disney, creator of animation and multimedia empire --Henry Ford, founder of Ford Motor Co. --Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft --A.P. Giannini, architect of nationwide banking --Ray Kroc, hamburger meister --Estee Lauder, cosmetics tycoon --William Levitt, creator of suburbia --Lucky Luciano, criminal mastermind --Louis B. Mayer, Hollywood mogul --Charles Merrill, advocate of the small investor --Akio Morita, co-founder of Sony --Walter Reuther, labor leader --Pete Rozelle, football-league commissioner --David Sarnoff, father of broadcasting --Juan Trippe, aviation entrepreneur --Sam Walton, Wal-Mart dynamo...
Crime 1997 1998 %Change Stranger Rape 0 0 0 Acquaintance Rape 3 5 67 Robbery 6 6 0 Aggravated Assault 17 21 24 Simple Assault 5 2 -60 Burglary 69 59 -14 Larceny Bicycle 226 158 -30 Larceny/All Other 648 512 -21 Motor Vehicle Theft 5 6 20 Vandalism 76 54 -29 Total Crime 1,310 1,037 -21 Source: Harvard Police Department
...before the Supreme Court over whether states may continue to sell, as many do, personal information such as addresses and Social Security numbers derived from drivers? licenses. South Carolina is challenging, on the basis of states rights, a federal law that would stop the release of such motor vehicle information. Privacy watchdogs hope that the court?s decision, which is expected to come down next term, will also have something to say about individual rights -- and put a halt to the release of such information...
...auto industry, where being biggest or fastest has always mattered most, the startling new benchmark for bragging rights is being greenest. That's what Ford Motor Co. chief executive Jacques Nasser seemed to be suggesting last week when he announced that beginning this fall, the company's popular F series pickup trucks will pollute the air no more than its cars do today. Just a year ago, Ford said it was cleaning up its sport-utility vehicles' emissions. Now Nasser says the 2000 model trucks will meet Environmental Protection Agency regulations mandated for the year 2004--without costing consumers...