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...budget and controls such matters as zoning, municipal contracts, and water and sewer rates. Three elected officials (the mayor, comptroller and city-council president) and the president of each of the city's five boroughs sit on the panel. But the boroughs have widely varying populations. The member representing Staten Island's 377,600 residents has the same voting power as the one representing the 2,309,600 people of Brooklyn, the most populous borough...
...rules of the game were learned long ago in Queens, N.Y., where Trump's grandfather, a hard-drinking Swedish immigrant, left his son Fred an orphan at eleven. Fred soon began building middle-class houses, and eventually he put up some 24,000 apartments in Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island, including a 23- room spread where he and Mary Trump raised their five children. Young Donald was no more than five when Fred began taking him to inspect building sites, and at 13 he was driving a bulldozer. "I learned a lot from him," says ( Trump. "I learned about toughness...
Methane from cattle feedlots will be very difficult to collect, but the gas in garbage landfills is already being tapped and burned at many sites around the U.S. At the Fresh Kills landfill on New York City's Staten Island, for example, methane that would otherwise have escaped into the air is being collected by a gas company and used to heat thousands of homes. The technique essentially involves driving a pipe into the depths of the garbage, then trapping the gas that rushes out. This should be done at all landfills...
...straws?" -- and steal ideas from brainy losers like Tess. Well, if Tess can't beat Katharine, she will become her. While Katharine recovers from a ski injury, Tess dresses in her boss's clothes, coifs herself in "serious hair," drops her voice one take-charge octave. Voila! The Staten Island missy is a Park Avenue...
...world looked very different to Bob Forrester when he married Carol in 1953 and began a new life in Los Angeles. He grew up in East St. Louis, where his father earned a modest blue-collar wage as an engineer in a chemical plant. Carol came from Staten Island, from two generations of longshoremen. Neither Bob nor Carol went to college. But back then, lack of a degree was no impediment to swift upward mobility, and for Bob a union labor job was the quickest ticket into the booming American middle class...