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...cream. It is a wonderful place to spend the summer. I look at gambling as a positive addition to Atlantic City's charm. It will probably do the same for the rather bleak landscapes in North Dakota where there is nothing else as exciting, and for suburban Connecticut where there is nothing but Yale...
...suburban Dallas company is surely one of the most mysterious and eccentric outfits ever to drill for oil. Harken consists of almost no assets besides an exclusive 35-year contract to explore for crude in Bahrain. When the country's rulers handed Harken that deal early last year, it puzzled oil experts around the world. Why would Bahrain stake so much of its financial future on an obscure, money-losing company with no refineries and no experience in offshore oil exploration? "It was a surprise," says Jay Gallagher, a senior analyst for Petroconsultants, one of the world's largest...
...matter the situation, the fact is that that same day was just another ordinary day in the suburban Detroit home of Isiah Thomas. No engraved invitation came. The next day, he probably read about America's Olympic selections in the newspaper: Jordan, Magic Johnson, Karl Malone, Charles Barkley, Larry Bird. No Isiah Thomas...
Before starting their morning lessons, children in public schools across the U.S. recite the Pledge of Allegiance. The familiar words echo in immaculate suburban buildings with bright, airy classrooms and labs where children study art and languages, learn on the latest computers and play sports in well- equipped gyms. They also ring out in overcrowded, eroding, inner-city schools where sewage backs up into bathroom plumbing and where students share used textbooks and practice typing on handmade, fake keyboards. Whatever the setting, the pledge ends the same: "with liberty and justice...
City kids have to learn the skills to move up through the suburban service economy, and the suburbs have to overcome their fear of thousands of disaffected, angry, unemployable, urban youths ruining their quality of life. Maybe the answer is some kind of cross-jurisdictional school choice, maybe it is resource-sharing, maybe it is something else. Whatever it is, regions must take steps to reduce this massive gap in opportunity...