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Last time I talked about the ups (more exercise, less death) and downs (bruised wallets, crippled economy) of rising gas prices. Today I’d like to talk abut the ups and downs of alternative fuels.
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decided to go buy a fedora. There was still a small men’s clothing store in downtown Ann Arbor, the kind of place that’s since been run off by the likes of The Men’s Warehouse. Why on earth would anyone want to shop for clothing at a goddamn warehouse? I don’t remember the name of this particular men’s store, but I do remember my disappointment in finding out that they didn’t carry fedoras anymore. No demand for `em. The best I could do was a greenish/brown Pendleton with a thin, brown leather band. After getting it home, I realized it looked like something Indiana Jones would wear. Just hideous. Largely ignored, it finally found it’s way to a Goodwill a few years back. Despite the fact that few people still wear fedoras, smoke cigars, or hangout at the track anymore, the Triple Crown of racing has managed to maintain the national spotlight. The Kentucky Derby, Preakness, and Belmont Stakes have a bit of a gimmicky feel at this point, and if you’ve ever been to the infield at either Churchill Downs or Pimlico, then you know that most people in attendance know next to nothing about horse racing and are merely there to party.
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actually an addendum to the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the monumental bill that began the dismantling of Jim Crow segregation. Schools that receive federal funds (which is almost all of them) cannot discriminate based on gender. It’s that simple. So female students cannot be excluded from school programs just because they’re women. For example, there cannot be a geology course for male students only. In the case of gender specific activities such as sports, schools must provide equivalent opportunities for female students.
his basement. The idea was simple. After a year, whoever had the highest hand in any of our games would collect the jackpot and use it as an entry fee for a casino poker tournament of their choosing. We’d all go to cheer him on, and we’d each collect an equal share of the winnings if he cashed. Stevie Creamcheese busted out of the gate for an early lead with quad aces, but eventually the straight flushes took over. Wolfie had a couple of them at different times, each to the king. Royal flushes don’t grow on trees, so we began to assume it would be him. But then I pounced by flopping a royal flush in clubs during a game of Hold Em. And it lasted a good while, until The Big B.S. hit his royal flush in hearts, the penultimate hand. It proved to be the winner. Everyone’s busy with work, kids, and whatnot, so it took two years to get all the schedules coordinated, and even at that, we had to leave Wolfie and Stanley behind, but last Saturday six of us drove up to Atlantic City.
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Specifically, the world’s two largest nations, China and India, have begun to compete openly with United States and Europe, particularly in manufacturing, but increasingly in technology as well. While some observers have continued to warn about the damage that brain drain causes to developing nations, others have called for a reversal of brain drain restrictions. These new critics point to the important role immigration has played in U.S. economic development in the past, and maintain that it must absorb the world’s best workers today so that it can remain atop an ever-changing and increasingly competitive global economy.
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largely a cultural and social act. I reject the notion that most people vote based on rational choices about their own self-interest. Rather, I think most people take political stances and engage in political actions primarily as ways of defining and expressing themselves. Loyalties to political parties, ideologies, and philosophies are largely a way for Americans to understand and present themselves as the people they want to be, and as the way they want to be perceived by others.
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