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Spend for Success Michael Scherer asks "What Happened to the Stimulus?" [July 13]. Why should a project that keeps poor, young people occupied and off the streets be termed "silly?" $620,000 for the renovation of a skateboard park seems a small price to pay for the potential long-term benefits of providing young people with something to do - all parents know that idle kids make trouble. Isn't it rather more shortsighted to spend billions on road-building, thus encouraging even more cars on the roads and creating ever-increasing greenhouse-gas emissions? This seems like a case...
...while Saddleback gets criticized for being plush - with its on-campus sand volleyball courts, skateboard park and concert theater - and straying from its central missions of proselytizing and charity, I think it's great that the congregation is branching out. I want there to be more kinds of comedy and music and art. I'm just glad I'm not one of the poor Evangelicals who let themselves see only Christian versions of those things. Because I can't be there every month to save the show...
Some silly projects are sure to be built. In Long Beach, Calif., local and state officials bucked the orders from Washington. The city council unanimously approved a $620,000 skateboard-park renovation in a rough neighborhood, half-pipe and all. "It's an incredible opportunity," says local councilman Robert Garcia. "This is near and dear to my heart," noted California Senator Barbara Boxer on the Senate floor. Biden's staff has battled to kill the project behind the scenes, and the outcome is still unclear. Meanwhile, on other requests, Republicans quibbled with Biden's definition of prudent. Some $3.4 million...
...Angeles: "Sally Worthington Hayes is one of those L.A. women who slip into an alternative dimension sometime after their fortieth birthday. It works the same way with men in this city. You think you're talking to a college student, what with his rock 'n' roll T-shirt, his skateboard, his bong collection, and his extensive knowledge of low-fi British indie music, then you find out he's fifty-eight, with six kids and three percent of Google. What do these people do to themselves?...When I tell people my age in L.A., they can't believe...
...Breininger, 21, had disappeared a month earlier from his hometown in the southwestern city of Neunkirchen. According to German investigators the former skateboard rider then resurfaced in Egypt, where he tried to learn Arabic. A few weeks later, investigators say, he traveled, via Iran, to the tribal areas in northern Pakistan. Officers at Germany's Federal Crime Agency believe he has since received training in weapons and explosives. Fearing that he could slip back into Germany to carry out an attack, they have put him at the top of Germany's most-wanted list. (Read TIME's Top 10 lists...