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Duncan, 44, is no stranger to occasional discomfort. He grew up in Hyde Park--the tony South Side enclave that's home to the University of Chicago--but played a lot of basketball in one of the rougher neighborhoods nearby. Often the only white player on the court, he became adept at figuring out when to be aggressive and when to hang back. In the early 1960s, Duncan's mother started an after-school tutoring program in an inner-city neighborhood following her discovery that few of the 9-year-olds in her Bible-study class could read. "In Chicago...
...YORK CITY Aureole Chef Charlie Palmer opens his recently relocated Aureole restaurant?complete with Adam Tihany design?in the Bank of America Tower at the fashionable address of One Bryant Park...
...joyful it was. We found that by creating space in our lives in terms of letting go of stuff, cutting out the TV screens, we had more time for relationships - more time to spend with each other and with friends. More time just reading books or going to the park and going swimming. We were eating better and getting more exercise. That's what really struck...
...Compared to other parts of the country, Person County's 39,000 residents are actually fortunate. Forty miles south of Roxboro is Research Triangle Park, near Durham, where growth has been led by innovation and the unemployment rate is a mere 6%; 51% of Person County's workforce travels to Durham County for jobs, and that helped soften Person's economic woes in the past. (See people out of work in America...
...violence in June and Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to issue a statement officially denying that the country was unsafe for Indian students. Students claimed the attacks were racially motivated, but police and government authorities maintained they were mainly opportunistic. Tensions also spread to Sydney, with protests erupting at Harris Park, in the city's west, where many of the assaults took place. Indian students are the second largest group of foreign students in Australian after those from China...