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Jones' comprehensive understanding of music makes him him one of the very few musicians to transcend the boundaries between genres and work with artists who span five decades and range in style from big band to pop to jazz...
...Brooklyn Bridge, completed in 1883. Designed by John Roebling and his son Washington Roebling, built by thousands of workers laboring under perilous and sacrificial conditions on the high cables or underwater in the caissons, it was the greatest engineering feat of 19th century America and, with a central span of 1,595 ft., by far the longest suspension bridge in the world. Its soaring Gothic-arched towers also predicted the vertical city, whose chief element--the high, steel-framed palazzo block--had been adumbrated by Badger but reached its first maturity outside New York in the 1890s, in the buildings...
...spent on conventional law enforcement, including more arrests of drug dealers, confiscations, prosecutions and standard-length prison terms, would eliminate 70 percent more crimes against people than spending the same amount on enforcing mandatory minimums. The reason mandatory minims are so popular lies in part with the short attention span of Congressmen concerned about reelection every two years. Harsher prison sentences look tougher, and they cost less initially than expensive rehab programs that can run $1,800 per person in the first year. But long-term costs plummet: The study says that if the goverment spent the same amount over...
...thought that some of it was unrealistic in terms of what they expected an introductory economics course to cover in the span of one year," said Thomas G. Saunders...
However, it was here that the roof caved in on Harvard, with the Irish netting six unanswered goals, five of them in a span of under five-and-a-half minutes...