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...Warner always had good jobs, but they never seemed to last. He had been a technical sergeant in Vietnam, and then, after returning to Los Angeles, he worked as an air-traffic controller, a Hughes Aircraft manufacturing coordinator and a real estate agent. When the cold war ended and Southern California's economy slumped, Warner moved to New Jersey and took a low-wage position as a shoe salesman. He worked hard, but the job didn't really pay off--until the day he fit a pair of black, Italian flats on the slender feet of Mary Del Guidice...
...that weren't enough, men tend to work in more dangerous settings than women, and thus account for 90% of on-the-job fatalities, mostly in agriculture. And men drive more rollover-prone SUVs (contributing to last year's 42,850 traffic deaths, the highest since 1990, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) and suffer more motorcycle fatalities (up sharply over the past five years, thanks in part to the repeal of state helmet laws...
...Birds in urban environments are increasingly being threatened with extinction because males of many species cannot sing their mating calls loud enough for females to hear them over noise from vehicular traffic...
...city dismantled all street and traffic lights along the route, and tree crews sawed off branches to make way. Police officers detoured traffic, and tow trucks stood at the ready...
...much of the country, the anarchy and looting also called forth its opposite - the remarkable solidarity and volunteer spirit among ordinary Iraqis eager to restore security and normalcy. Civilian volunteers direct traffic in a city with no traffic lights or rules. They protect their neighborhoods from looters and thieves, and have even used files found in the former security facilities to establish a database of Saddam's victims...