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...fans) observed, "Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better know baseball." The citizens of NASCAR Nation would, today, reasonably argue with that. Please quote me no Yankee Stadium attendance figures; baseball at present is a disgrace--the subject of government inquiries, an industry as rife with known and suspected cheaters as Wall Street circa 2000. Is this the heart and mind of America? Maybe it is, but not as we'd like...
...country's first mall - opened in a new suburb called Nova Vida. There, in a store called Tapazio, they can shop for such baubles as silver-plated ashtrays and a $7,000 candelabra. Yet 70% of Angolans still live below the country's poverty line. Cholera and malaria are rife, and child mortality rates are among the worst in the world. A kilometer away from Nova Vida, in the shanty town of Cambamba, children play in open sewers, and piles of burning garbage shroud shacks in foul-smelling clouds of smoke. As Valdemir puts it: "The rich use mineral water...
...true, for example, that most conventional heating and cooling systems are rife with energy inefficiencies on a far greater scale than household lighting. Unfortunately, environmentally friendly heating systems are still prohibitively costly for most consumers. Light bulbs are not. If we always discount every feasible solution as too minor, we will simply end up doing nothing...
...little shorter with a brown top hat...matching his brown and khaki detective safari getup.” Cabot, which tied with Lowell House for this year’s cup, was first in line to house the award. The theft incited a siege of e-mails, rife with accusations and calls for retaliation, over the Cabot House open list. Mather House, last year’s Green Cup winner, was the primary suspect identified in the e-mail chain. “Someone saw the Green Cup being carried past Dunster to Mather,” said Thomas...
...online prevention program” that all rising freshman were required to suffer through this year to teach us how not to kill ourselves by alcohol. A course which supposedly takes “2-3 hours to complete,” Alcohol Edu is so rife with technical errors and misleading information that it is more likely to be a complete waste of twice that amount of time...