Word: terras
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...study is under review for publication, but is being circulated early by the National Bureau of Economic Research. The findings, while unexpected, are notable for the depth of data on which they're based. Walsh and his colleagues, Terra McKinnish, an associate professor of economics at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and Kirk White, an economist at Duke University's Triangle Census Research Data Center, compared confidential Census figures from 1990 and 2000 from 15,040 neighborhoods, with an average of about 4,000 residents each, in 64 metropolitan areas, such as Phoenix, Boston, Ft. Lauderdale, Columbus, New York...
...clever one Trust the Danes to come up with a seamless blend of style and savvy. This sleek number, in glazed white terra-cotta, was created by Claus Jensen and Henrik Holbaek (a.k.a. Copenhagen design duo Tools) for homewares store Eva Solo. It comes with entrance-hole fittings in four sizes, catering to tenants as small as wrens or as big as sparrows. Heat-reflective, it keeps the chicks from frying in summer. www. evasolo.com...
...Four record companies, have been getting more ink lately than its artists, which include the likes of Lily Allen and Coldplay. With EMI's slice of the world market under pressure - its share fell to 12.8% in 2006 from 13.6% the previous year - U.K. private-equity company Terra Firma acquired the firm for $6.5 billion last August. The new owner has been quick to make its mark: earlier this year EMI announced it was axing as many as 2,000 jobs in a bid to pare costs by $400 million a year. But the overhaul is not just a matter...
This sense of justice was informed by a sense of the divine. The Queen of the Night, a terra-cotta tablet that is the only other artwork to have survived from the period, displays a naked goddess wearing a horned headdress and carrying a rod - symbols of divinity and justice...
...local forest-conservation projects and is planning an entire eco-sensitive neighborhood development called Ever Vail. At 9.5 acres (4 hectares), it will be the largest resort in the U.S. certified by Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) and will join other LEED-approved resorts like the Hotel Terra Jackson Hole, which opened on Jan. 29 in Wyoming. Positioned on the mountain to make the best use of natural light and save electricity, the Terra also uses 34% less water than traditional resorts and has begun a pilot program for disposing food waste, which is important in a mountain...