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...mixing with young people who are that the peak of their intellectual activity, and so I will [gain] a lot of intellectual energy from them, as well as giving them anything I can give them,” Pertile said. “It’s a marvelous prospect...
...popular, she is leaving the council partly because she is tired of the scandals that have rocked the city lately. Her departure is a significant moment in the history of Detroit, the largest majority-black city in America. In the 1950s, when Detroit's population reached its 2 million peak, nearly 1.6 million white people lived here. In 1990, though whites were still represented in several major elected posts, they comprised only about 20% of the population. Now, whites make up barely 8% of the city's estimated 912,000 residents. (See pictures of the remains of Detroit...
...found that special something for Grandma, don't fret - you can still sneak in a little last-minute shopping. For procrastinators, UPS may be the carrier of choice - despite a volume spike on Dec. 14, a UPS spokesman told TIME the company doesn't anticipate their shipments to peak until Dec. 21, when they expect to process 22 million packages (a typical day, by contrast, involves only 15 million). And if you really want to push it, major carriers will accept holiday shipping as late as Dec. 23 - two days later than the deadline for first-class and priority mail...
...spirit of the recently formed Sons of Liberty, and planned to stand against the administration that had ignored their complaints. Asa Dunbar, later the grandfather of Henry David Thoreau, led the rebellion. On a day when the stench of the butter rose to its peak, he stood in the dining hall and yelled out: “Behold! Our butter stinketh!” Half the college rose with him and, roaring a grand “Huzzah!” of defiance, marched out into the Yard...
...doesn’t seem like playing a varsity sport, running a company, and working to advance medicine have forced Yan to mature at all. “I think that the peak of my maturity might have been when I interviewed for Harvard,” he says, grinning...