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...graffiti war continues unabated in other cities. New York City recently doubled sentences for graffiti offenders. Peoria, Ariz., has placed surveillance cameras in graffiti-prone areas. Philadelphia doesn't keep exact stats on graffiti crimes but says the mural-as-peacemaker model has proved its worth. In the late 1990s, the Grays Ferry neighborhood suffered an outbreak of racial violence. Golden believed the divisiveness called for a multiracial mural. Not everyone agreed. "It was a mess, a real mess," recalls Jim Helman, a white neighborhood activist. "And along comes this diminutive little thing [Golden] who promises to do this ridiculous...
...multi-show contracts and had them on regularly for the next year, giving them their first sustained TV exposure and a major boost to their careers. Pryor was a particular favorite. "Our own little Richie Pryor," Griffin would announce as he brought on the gangly, wide-eyed kid from Peoria, who did physical bits and a famous imitation of a children's production of Rumpelstiltskin on Griffin's show, before he developed his more raw and racially provocative style. A few years later Griffin took his nephew to see Pryor on stage for the first time, at a theater...
...array of capital equipment and heavy machinery conglomerates such as Remy, TRW and Bosch have realized they can extract healthy profits from sickly parts, but Caterpillar is reman's top dog. It's estimated that sales for the Peoria, Illinois, farm and construction manufacturer's reman division were $1 billion in 2005 - a small share of the $36 billion in total revenues the company generated that year. Nevertheless, remanufacturing is one of Cat's fastest-growing units and it is expected to continue expanding by 12-15% a year through 2010. Steven L. Fisher, who heads Caterpillar's reman division...
...Probably no one outside of al-Marri's wife and kids in Peoria, Illinois, prefers the last option. A citizen of Qatar, al-Marri allegedly trained at an al-Qaeda camp in Afghanistan, palled around with Osama bin Laden and came to the U.S. on Sept. 10, 2001 as a "sleeper agent," a computer hacker bent on disrupting the American financial system. He was arrested at home three months later as a material witness in the investigation of the Sept. 11 attacks. Al-Marri denies any connection with al-Qaeda or terrorism, but constitutional issues aside, we might all rest...
...limited. You're not going to see a wealth effect"-a decline in consumption because people feel poorer when stocks fall-"and companies don't use the market as a major tool of financing." Investors who thus savaged the stock of, say, Caterpillar Inc., a heavy-equipment maker in Peoria, Illinois, because they feared the company's booming China business was suddenly going to fall off the cliff should probably rethink that a bit. As Jun Ma, the chief economist for greater China at Deutsche Bank in Hong Kong, says, "We do not see any significant impact of this market...