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...When "playing mas," or masquerading in Carnival, partiers follow an organized caravan called a "band" that they have already registered with and chosen a costume from. Some outfits tend to be conservative, like the simple cotton sailor suits worn by one group. Others have elaborate sky-high headdresses and makeshift tails made of feathers that a peacock would envy. But by far the most noticeable are the decorated bikinis worn by the beauty queens - which leave just enough to the imagination. Of course, it simply isn't enough to just watch; being a person of action, I felt the need...
...desperate to return to the football powerhouse days of its late demigod coach Paul "Bear" Bryant that it will pay Saban $4 million a year. That's a surreal record for college football, but it's hardly the exception today, when universities feel they have to match the sky-high salaries offered by the pros: just below Saban is Oklahoma's Bob Stoops at $3.45 million, while Jim Tressel, the coach of No. 1-ranked Ohio State, earns $2.6 million and may see a sizeable raise soon...
...afford to live here,” Elie Yarden, a board member of the Association of Cambridge Neighborhoods, said at a citizens’ forum in the Cambridge Senior Center following the presentation of the survey.It’s not the first time that Cantabrigians have complained about sky-high housing costs—23 percent of residents listed housing as their top concern in the city’s last biannual survey in 2004. According to a paper by Glimp Professor of Economics Edward L. Glaeser, the Cambridge-Newton area experienced the third-fastest rate of housing price...
...tech have yet to emerge. "Energy is subject to the same sort of scientific breakthroughs, innovation and entrepreneurial efforts that have characterized Silicon Valley's impact in microprocessors, PCs, biotechnology, telecommunications and the Internet," Khosla tells TIME. The promise of today's green tech boom, however, isn't just sky-high IPOs. Khosla is betting that his investments, along with his own bold policy ideas, will speed the creation of a clean tech economy and drive energy independence...
...brakes on what he calls Bush's imperialist Goliath--not just in Venezuela, which has the hemisphere's largest oil reserves, but in Latin America and the world. In his eight years as President, Chvez has gone from a backwater strongman to a genuine global player, capitalizing on sky-high oil prices to spread his influence across Latin America and to win attention when he denounces the Bush Administration. That has made Caracas a hot destination for leftist tourists, bolstered Chvez's celebrity cachet--he counts Danny Glover and Harry Belafonte as friends--and made him the most...