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...Gasoline prices, while still historically low when inflation is accounted for, have risen in the past month, thanks mostly to Middle East tensions and some unseasonable Texas heat. But for Levin to get the summer-season spikes he can make an issue out of, he'll need the now-hesitant economic recovery - and the attendant increase in both business and consumer demand - to reach full swing in short order...
...Ryding suburban gangsta phenomenon? Never mind that hip hop has been, on and off, the leading artistic force in pop music for the past decade and a half. Never mind that Public Enemy and Timbaland have revolutionized our notions of musicality, that a multifaceted and vibrant youth culture has risen all over the world, and that fantastic new records are still released every couple of weeks...
...bottle of wine, and an even worse egg roll, at the late Young and Yee’s Chinese restaurant on Church Street. Few tears were shed then when the woks were packed away last year and the soy-stained walls came tumbling down. In its place has risen “Cambridge, 1” (did they focus-group that comma?), a new spot that strives to be a bar and a restaurant, a neighborhood joint and a cosmopolitan scene—and really does quite a good job of pulling...
...listens. There have been forums and dialogues between students of different ethnicities and races for years. The ethnic studies movement, one example of a cause that interests students of many different backgrounds, has gone through many incarnations without much success. But in recent months, discussion of minority matters has risen to a fever pitch because of the departure of West, a leading light of the Harvard Afro-American studies department that until recently was considered an uncrackable diamond...
Slowly but surely, Harvard’s teachers are moving toward matching the nearly even gender ratio of its students. Overall, the number of senior women faculty in FAS has risen from 38 (9.6 percent) in 1991 to 78 (17.6 percent) in 2001. But for those concentrations still wrestling with unbalanced gender ratios, the increasing number of female professors is just one stop on the road to gender equality...