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...Gaetano) Talese was born and raised in Ocean City, N.J., a seaside resort founded by teetotaling Methodist ministers who sought a prim and sober alternative to glitzy Atlantic City nearby. Growing up "olive-skinned in a freckle-faced town," young Gay felt himself an alien in Ocean City -- the butt, at parochial school, of ethnic slurs by Irish-American classmates whose brothers served with the American forces liberating Italy during World War II. He even felt somewhat of a foreigner in his own family. His father Joseph, a workaholic tailor and dry cleaner, was strict, austerely religious, often remote...
Collecting meteorite samples is difficult for many reasons, Marvin says. Each day, geologists estimate, only four or five meteors are large enough to survive the trip through Earth's atmosphere without burning up completely. The majority of these fall into the ocean...
...spring when it takes up the case of Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council. Real estate developer David Lucas bought two lots on the Isle of Palms in 1986 with the intention of building houses on them. Two years later, new state regulations proscribed building so close to the ocean. Lucas did not challenge the state's claim that beachside construction would cause erosion and threaten the stability of nearby homes, but he did seek compensation for his investment. A lower court awarded him $1,232,387.50, the price he paid for the land plus interest and taxes. The state...
...during this downturn was the fact that all manufacturers brought their production in line with demand. Only one group, the Japanese, didn't do it that way. Only one group steadily increased its inventory of vehicles. I'm sure those vehicles aren't going to get thrown in the ocean -- they're going to get sold. And so there's no question about it, their penetration of the U.S. market is going to increase. We told the President and his people back last March that we could see the trend developing. That kind of behavior, in my view, really shouldn...
...calculator to capture more deductions than breezes. Some towers were planted in fields of feeble winds. Others broke down with frustrating regularity. But a few companies persisted, and California in particular became the nursery for advanced technology. The state's hot central valleys are linked to the cool ocean by a series of gorges and valleys along the coast that act like wind tunnels. It was in these natural labs that engineers began testing new designs...