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...Several years later the company went public and continued to feast on its competitors, including ReserveAmerica, an online company that takes reservations for everything from state park campsites to the Washington Monument. (Buy a ticket for the monument in person and it's free. Buy it in advance online via ReserveAmerica, via Ticketmaster, and it cost...
...Before education became the focus of his career, Duncan’s life centered around basketball. Though Duncan grew up in Hyde Park, he spent much of his childhood on the South Side where he had the chance to play competitive street ball. “Education came later, basketball came first,” says Duncan’s younger brother Owen. “His real great dream was to become a professional basketball player. It was somewhere between devotion and obsession...
...Stephen M. Wilkins, a manager in the department of sports administration with CPS, knew Duncan well before working under the CEO. The two were raised one block away from each other in Hyde Park. “He grew up in the unlikely scenario,” says Wilkins, “of a kid from a solid middle class background going across the very real racial lines of Chicago to tutor kids eight blocks from where he lived...
...Jowell, Britain's Olympics Minister, wrote in the latest annual report on progress toward 2012. That will mean 100,000 contract jobs to stage the Games - of those currently working on the Olympic site, one-tenth were previously unemployed - with half as many long-term positions created in the park and surrounding area. "The Games remind us," Rogge said on a recent visit to London, "that the transient difficulties of life can be overcome through hard work and determination." And a lot of the green stuff...
...They were the lucky ones. Falling trees later blocked the road out of town trapping 50 residents overnight. "They got caught and they spent the night trapped in Gallipoli Park," says Adams. "There have been a lot of casualties but we don't have any idea." As information dripped in, it was hard to discern between fears, hopes and the truth "There are so many rumors," says Adams. "You hear somebody has died and then they walk through the door. We are on an emotional roller coaster at the moment...