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...customization extends to gearhead items like air intakes, enhanced exhaust systems and rear spoilers. As Jill Lajdziak, a Saturn executive, notes, "Many young buyers would rather buy an affordable vehicle and then have a couple of thousand dollars to invest in a higher level of performance...
...tagliatelle pasta or as the filling of a lasagna. Proud locals also say tortellini, the small triangle-shaped meat-and-cheese-filled pasta, were invented in Bologna - though Modena also stakes that claim. Situated at the base of the Apennine foothills halfway between Florence and Venice, Bologna has a thousand-year history as both a way station for travelers and a prestigious university town. The constant flow of visitors has brought in many delicacies and ingredients - and of course, sent away generations of messengers bearing glad tidings of the city's legendary cuisine. Giovanni Tamburini, owner of a family delicatessen...
...aren't doing very well from gaming. In Minnesota, 300 members of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux community reportedly take home more than $1 million a year. But bands like that are the exception. Only 25% of gaming tribes distribute cash to their members, usually no more than a few thousand dollars each...
...thousand miles away, Hasan is sitting on a stained mattress in a wooden hut in the compound of his orphanage near the Javanese city of Bandung. He rages against the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), whose members have been working with parents to locate their offspring and arrange for their return home. Hasan says the children in his charge are now part of his family, and that UNHCR officials "have been lying about me for too long. If the UNHCR comes here, I'll hit them myself," he vows over and over, as he chain-smokes clove cigarettes...
...knew there would be a thousand secrets we would share and a thousand memories we would make together,” Thebaud said...