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...wood, a white working-class neighborhood in the southwest section of the City of Brotherly Love, Williams and Bloxom, who are black and unmarried, decided to move out. Said Bloxom: "We can't live in a neighborhood where my child is scared to come in the house." Williams, a shift supervisor at a fast-food restaurant who had bought the $21,000 home in early November from the Veterans Administration with $500 down, said he was stunned that anyone could be so vilified for the color of his skin. "In this day and age," said he, "you shouldn't have...
...world's most expensive. In terms of technical difficulty, the Transgabonais rivals the 1,966-mile Baikal-Amur rail line that the Soviets are pushing across Siberia. The eight forest-smashing bulls and their crews are backed by 120 more bulldozers, 450 heavy trucks and 3,800 workers who shift and terrace earth to carve out a 300-ft.-wide right-of-way. A state-of-the-art rail-laying machine, "the dinosaur," brings up the rear...
...Celebrity Slams Go Fug Yourself gofugyourself.typepad.com A daily shredding of the sartorial choices of Hollywood stars, complete with photographic evidence. To wit: Parts of Courtney Love's new, larger body "are sort of sloshing around, uncontained, like a Big Gulp spilling all over your gear shift when you take a turn too fast." Chloe Sevigny proves "high-waisted pants are the spawn of Satan's sewing machine...
Underscoring the new urgency to shift to e-health was the joint press conference held in Washington last week by Senators Hillary Clinton and Bill Frist, two potential presidential candidates who otherwise rarely get near enough to pass a communicable disease. They've got together, however, to introduce legislation that would provide seed money for local health networks and eliminate the biggest hurdle to beaming medical records to where they are needed: the lack of interoperability among the myriad systems now in use. Medical record keeping in the U.S. is in the "Dark Ages," Clinton complained. "We need to have...
...those stores, who resent the Ottawa-born singer's hawking an acoustic version of Jagged exclusively at Starbucks for the first six weeks of its release. HMV Canada and indie U.S. music stores are removing Morissette's old CDs from their shelves in protest. "Anytime there's a paradigm shift like this, people are going to be resistant," the singer says. "It happened with the Internet too." Here's to you, Ms. Morissette, pioneer of the CD-with-a-soy-latte frontier...