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...sweltering summer of 2006, New Orleans' anxious tourism industry could use a truckload of the stuff. Hurricane Katrina brought the city's multi-billion convention and tourism industry to a dead halt. Meetings and conventions that had been scheduled years ahead of time cancelled, along with the hundreds of thousands of attendees that would have filled hotel rooms and restaurants. For months, the few casual tourists who showed up were almost exclusively families of FEMA contractors and construction workers. (Paradoxically, two of those neighborhoods that were hardest hit, and where few tourists ventured before the storm - the Lower Ninth Ward...
...antitax group, the Club for Growth. The incumbent, Lincoln Chafee, is a breathtakingly courageous moderate: he opposed the Bush tax cuts and was the only Republican to vote against the war in Iraq. But there is a lot more going on here than dueling political philosophies. There is a truckload of New England sociology...
...Qormusda grant you long life, khan of the Tunshan"). Such false notes are rare. Di Natale's account of the fighting at Stalingrad is thrilling, her descriptions of postwar German privations heartbreaking, her imagery cunning (Berger, for instance, hitches a ride to the killing fields of Stalingrad on a truckload of sheep), and her insights into the weirdness of Western ways perceptive. Back home, "I would already have had a husband," Kaja laments as a surly Cologne teenager. "Here, on the other hand, I lived a kind of extended childhood, in which everything seemed to be an apprenticeship and nothing...
...Kristen Sato, who along with her mother owns the children's-clothing store Flicka in Los Angeles. "We sell long, tiered peasant skirts and tie-dyed tunic shirts, some with embroidery and beading. There's a lot of mixing and matching. We also sell rock T shirts by the truckload. They're $60, with band names on them like the Rolling Stones and David Bowie, and we sell them all day long for infants to size 16s. Led Zeppelin is a big request." Sato believes that the trend appeals to girls' love of costumes and dress-up. "They...
...April 1—Weitzman’s birthday—the tenured professor was detained while trying to take manure from the Lane farm. In that incident, Weitzman reportedly tried to offer $20, and then $40, for the truckload of manure, but was not allowed to leave the property until police arrived on the scene. The malicious destruction of property charge came from damage Weitzman’s tires left on the farm...