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...BOOK? I've really been concerned that people don't know what happened when. I've talked a lot about the importance of making history interesting. It occurred to me that you could do that and have a timeline to get the dates in place, but pull people in with stories about the great heroes of America and some of the great villains of America...
...Census Bureau’s last median income estimate for all of Massachusetts (in 2003), which showed that the state had the second highest median income in the nation. At $20 per hour with a 40-hour workweek and two weeks of vacation, two Harvard janitors would pull in $80,000 a year for their family. In essence, then, SLAM is demanding that janitors at Harvard should make nearly the median wage in Boston for doing unskilled labor, when janitors across the state make an average of only $26,000 per year, according to the U.S. Department of Labor...
...feature are two parts of a philosophy that Sony has adopted, which goes something like this: Small cameras like the N1 go wherever you go. If you're on a plane and want to show pictures of your kids/pets/toy trains to the person sitting next to you, why not pull out your camera, instead of a wallet, PDA or specialized device? And if you do pull out your camera, why not make the slideshow at least partially interesting to your show-n-tell victim...
...will be skipper Vincent Porter and co-captain Sloan Devlin, giving the Crimson three realistic shots at bringing home hardware at the competition. “We’re in one of the hardest districts to qualify in, it’s really competitive, so for them to pull it out is really great,” Johnson said of his teammates. “Together we have a really good team going, and hopefully we can bring home the gold.”Lasers, otherwise known as singlehanded regattas, are Johnson’s specialty. He claimed twin...
...earthquake, trapping over a hundred kids inside. Their mangled bodies would slowly emerge, cradled in the arms of the rescue workers. The girls had worn green blouses, probably ironed that morning by their mothers; the boys wore gray. That night, three days after the temblor, the French managed to pull a five-year-old from the rubble. It appeared that the boy, Nawfiz Shah, suffered only mild injuries on his face and hands. But when I visited him the following day, living in a tent with his mother, I learned that Nawfiz was still so traumatized that after first crying...