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...dominoes or go fishing. It helps that Carmelita, Nathaniel and Jennifer have moved into a fully furnished and--thanks to a city housing voucher--temporarily rent-free apartment and have qualified for emergency food stamps; Natrena and her two boys have done the same. Nathaniel, a food loader for Southwest Airlines, has continued to be paid as his family gets settled. The catch is that after Thanksgiving, when he starts work again, it will be in Chicago...
...owned by everyone, then does that mean I am like everyone, and thus that I am nothing as an individual? In recent weeks, fashionistas the world over have had to contend with this identity-shattering dilemma.During the semi-controversy surrounding the Women’s & Girls Foundation of Southwest Pennsylvania’s recent “girl-cott” of certain Abercrombie & Fitch T-shirts, the sentiment heard at Harvard was less of moral outrage and more of ridicule—mocking the stupidity of wearing such shirts in the first place.But as students outside the Science Center...
...Nine men were arrested in Sydney; eight in Melbourne. Most were of Lebanese background and aged between 20 and 31. In most cases the suspects were seized as they slept and surrendered without a struggle, but in Sydney's southwest, Omar Baladjam allegedly shot at police when confronted walking near the Green Valley Mosque. Police say he pulled a handgun from his backpack and fired, wounding an officer in the hand. Police returned fire, hitting the spray painter and sometime television actor in the neck. A few suburbs away, police called in a helicopter with a heat-seeking camera...
GLADWELL: One of the most striking things in observing the evolution of American society is the rise of travel. If I had to name a single thing that has transformed our life, I would say the rise of JetBlue and Southwest Airlines. They have allowed us all to construct new geographical identities for ourselves. Many working people today travel who never could have in the past, for meetings and conferences and all kinds of things, and this is creating another identity for them...
...certain types of mental performance.In 1994, peyote was declared legal for consumption in the rituals of the Native American Church, although it is still classified by the U.S. government as a controlled substance whose non-religious use is illegal. Members of the Church—particularly in the American Southwest and Mexico, where the plant naturally grows—ritualistically eat buttons of peyote as part of their regular campfire ceremonies.Five years ago, the researchers from McLean—a Boston hospital specializing in mental health—set out to verify the claims of the Native American Church that...