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...have any regrets about coming to America? Franc Hong, Pittsburgh, Pa. No. I've learned so much from Hollywood. I've made a lot of good friends. Also, it's been great to work with such superstars as John Travolta, Nic Cage and Tom Cruise...
...giant home markets and powerful teams. Outside of the Indian subcontinent, cricket's strongest franchise is Australia, which dominates test cricket and other forms of the sport. With no Indians, Pakistanis or Australians on display in Antigua, it will be a bit like having the Minnesota Twins and the Pittsburgh Pirates play for baseball's largest purse: great for their fans, but who else would bother to watch...
...study by researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder, University of Pittsburgh and Duke University, examined Census data from more than 15,000 neighborhoods across the U.S. in 1990 and 2000, and found that low-income non-white households did not disproportionately leave gentrifying areas. In fact, researchers found that at least one group of residents, high school-educated blacks, were actually more likely to remain in gentrifying neighborhoods than in similar neighborhoods that didn't gentrify - even increasing as a fraction of the neighborhood population, and seeing larger-than-expected gains in income...
...wealthier neighbors and the dislocation of low-income residents. But overall, the new study suggests, the popular notion of the yuppie invasion is exaggerated. "We're not saying there aren't communities where displacement isn't happening," says Randall Walsh, an associate professor of economics at the University of Pittsburgh and one of the study's authors. "But in general, across all neighborhoods in the urbanized parts of the U.S., it looks like gentrification is a pretty good thing...
...year after year, all over the country. A study of U.S. thunderstorm-related deaths from 1994 to 2000 found that men were more than twice as likely to die than women. Of the 1,442 fatalities, 70% were men, according to research by Thomas Songer at the University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Public Health. Most of the deaths happened outside the home during flash floods or lightning strikes. That is partly because men are more likely to be outside for their jobs. But men are also more likely to take risks of all kinds - which...