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...buzz is being generated by muscle cars or luxury of the "if you have to ask, you can't afford it" variety. Crowds also gathered around cars made by a company largely unknown outside of China, the Shenzhen-based firm BYD (Build Your Dreams). Started as a rechargeable-battery maker, BYD is making a headlong push to become a world leader in what some analysts believe could be the industry's post-internal combustion engine future: electric cars. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
Bareilles, in contrast, opened the festivities at 5:30 sharp, after the crowd had feasted on the corn dogs, kebabs, and similarly carnivalesque fare. The songstress played her pop-rock hit ‘Love Song’ only after a preliminary set of largely unknown numbers, taunting the crowd at the beginning of one initial track, “It’s not what you think...
...known how many of the thousands of families who send their children to so-called therapeutic boarding schools each year receive tuition reimbursement via IDEA. The exact number of therapeutic boarding schools operating in the U.S. is also unknown, since no official body tracks them, but some estimates put the figure at 150 to 300. Tuition is far from cheap. Monthly costs at residential facilities are $5,000 and up; Mount Bachelor, which houses up to 125 students, charges $6,400 per month, and in 2008 revenue for the Aspen Education Group, which owns Mount Bachelor...
Jiverly Wong was unknown and unremarkable in life. Had he gone quietly like Cory, he would have died unnoticed--evidently a fate too much to bear. Instead, he blocked the rear exit of an immigrant center in Binghamton, N.Y., and walked with guns drawn through the front door. Thirteen people died to create Wong's illusion of importance. Or maybe illusion is the wrong word, for he certainly made himself important to them...
...matzo bakery was invited to the 1938 New York World's Fair, but for unknown reasons never appeared...