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...time - at most. One species of the lout is enough. Most people do not distinguish the mythologies of the Mets from those of the Yankees (it's not the same as the old Yankee-Dodger dichotomy) and so it was hard for outlanders to know which side to root...
...Since its last meeting five years ago, the IPCC says it has discovered immutable evidence that human beings are the root cause of global warming, and that we've been particularly harmful in the past 50 years, spewing exhaust and industrial toxins into the atmosphere at breakneck speed...
...native of Atlantic City, N.J., Dichter, 69, says he has always been interested in development issues. He studied Asian economics at Aligarh Muslim University in India, where the idea for TFTP took root. "I was affected by the poverty, the lack of technology and the contrast between rich and poor," he says. He went on to earn a master's degree at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., and a Ph.D. at Birbeck College in London. In the 1960s he worked in Washington as a U.S. Foreign Service officer for Asian countries. He went to Switzerland in 1970 to coordinate...
...meantime, I'll root quietly for the Mets and silently will the Yankees to run out of steam...
...without class (root: from the Polish community of South Bend, Indiana...