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...matter who created it, hasn?t been spread equally, helping to fuel Barry?s latest comeback. For many in Washington, the housing boom has meant they can?t afford to live in many of the new apartments built in the city. And the income gap between Washington?s richest and poorest has grown wider, with the average income of the top fifth of Washington?s population 31 times as high as the bottom fifth. The recent controversy over a public-financed baseball stadium, which Barry opposed, illustrated that concern, as both white and black residents complained that $400 million...
...nothing so much as Johnson's announcement of an "unconditional" war on poverty: "It will not be a short or easy struggle," Johnson proclaimed to the Congress in 1964. "No single weapon or strategy will suffice, but we will not rest until that war is won. The richest nation on earth can afford to win it. We cannot afford to lose...
Indeed, Meng and his colleagues didn't expect to find things like this at all. The smaller skeleton was discovered about two years ago by villagers in China's Liaoning province, site of some of the richest fossil beds in the world. They brought it to the attention of scientists, who took it to the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing for examination. "We didn't see the stomach contents at first," says graduate student Yaoming Hu, who is affiliated with the institute and is the lead author of the Nature paper...
...effort. Some 1,500 U.S. Marines headed for Sri Lanka. All told, governments around the world pledged more than $2 billion in the first week of the crisis, a figure that is sure to rise. The U.N.'s emergency relief coordinator, Jan Egeland, who earlier accused the world's richest nations of being "stingy," said he has "never, ever, seen such an outpouring of international assistance in any international disaster, ever...
...enormous support Firefox has already garnered in its short history. After all, at the moment it’s my word versus that of Bill Gates, and by the time he was my age he’d already founded the company that would make him the richest man in America...