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...certain points, the personal voices Sugrue weaves into his history manage to inspire the reader. Take Roxanne Jones, who proclaims in response to welfare cuts, “We must make them understand that we will not stand by quietly while they throw us out onto the streets. We are fighting for our lives and we will not be denied.”Despite being a dense and sometimes pedantic book, “Sweet Land of Liberty” successfully reveals a part of our history that many people often don’t give enough thought...
...concrete. Not the cheap, gray, easily cracked, soulless stuff that gave urbanization a bad name when it was slathered over Western cities in the 1960s, but newfangled, bright - and still relatively expensive - concrete that has come onto the market this decade. High-performance or ultra-high-performance concrete, as it's known in the industry, is up to 10 times stronger than regular concrete. Although, pound-by-pound, it costs several times as much as regular concrete, industry officials say price comparisons are misleading because the high-tech versions have different properties that make them more comparable to materials such...
...laws. Sprinklers are illegal during the daylight hours, and homeowners have to use a misting system rather than simply hose down the grass. Through ignorance or obtuseness, however, not everyone has gotten the message. At one house, Walker catches a sprinkler spraying a rock garden, the water leaking onto the boiling hot asphalt street. "That's pretty egregious," he notes laconically. He films the incident, with the time and date, and checks the address online to see if there are any prior violations. Fines can exceed $1,000 for multiple infractions...
...Mall in Valley Stream, N.Y, he signed up for an early morning shift on Black Friday—the “official” first shopping day of the holiday season. But when shoppers forced their way through the doors at 5:00 a.m., Damour was thrown back onto the linoleum tiles and trampled by customers eager to snatch the best bargains they could find. He suffered fatal injuries crushed beneath a chaotic stampede of more than 2,000 fanatical buyers...
...room’s residents, who did not want their names printed, said that nothing was removed from their room but that papers and books were strewn on the floor, food was spilled, and drawers had been rummaged through. The recycling bins were also emptied onto the floor...