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- 3281: Minor League Baseball: Boom or Bust to Communities?
- ... for rehabilitation purposes or who are in the last stages of their career. The stadium, however, should be more than that. It should be a community facility that provides many types of recreational resources. A new stadium is capital improvement and should have a life of more than two decades. If the stadium and team are to be evaluated as a true community resource, they must serve the entire community. If ... stores, gas stations, if minor league baseball did not exist. Although minor league baseball has been a dream come true for cities like Harrisburg, it has been a nightmare for other communities. In Hudson Valley, New York, the community found its case of baseball fever has turned into a “financial jam and it may not find the way out for a long time.” Hudson Valley was a community that was still ... the stadium. The cost for the stadium would be 3.75 million paid by the county, and an additional 1.75 million would be financed by the private sector. “It was supposed to be the world's greatest public-private partnership, now, everybody wants the county to pull their chestnuts out of the fire,” Dutchess County legislator Woody Klose said. Although the team has been a rousing success and routinely ...
- 3282: Charles Lindbergh 2
- Charles Lindbergh, one of the world s aviation heroes and an American hero, was the first person to make a nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic. He was born on February 4, 1902, in Detroit. He went to school at the ... Within four years, he was piloting a mail plane between St. Louis and Chicago. In 1919 Raymond Orteig from France offered $25,000 to the first person to cross the Atlantic nonstop between Paris and New York. His offer was set to expire in five years, but nobody even tried. In 1926, he extended his offer another five years. By this time technology was to the point where a flight across ... Powered by a 220-horsepower, 9-cylinder engine, it could perform over 9,000 hours flawlessly. Just two days before he was scheduled to leave, reports reached Lindbergh that several Frenchmen had left Paris for New York. Fortuently for Lindbergh and Ryan Airlines, the two were never seen again after leaving. He took off from Roosevelt Field in New York at 7:52 AM on May 20, 1927. His flight ...
- 3283: Creative Story: Deadlock
- ... I hate this stupid robot!" she yelled out loud, then suddenly closed her mouth. For Susan Calvin had just remembered that her pact with the satans, as she thought of them, known to the robotics world as the team of Powell and Donovan. She stretched, rolled out of bed, and went downstairs, wrapping a robe around her as she went, to get some coffee. "Well, since I'm already up, I ... they were causing all those robots to go psycho," she thought. "Good thing that U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men hushed up that little incident, I'd be out of a job if the whole world, the xenophobic and primally-fearful lot of them, knew about that!" As she got out and buttered her toast, she mulled the day ahead of her in her mind. Weekends were never truly weekends for ... Susan smiled at him, with an evil glint in her eye. "Junk the equations. They are obviously unstable. Why do you bother me with this? I am not even a full-time mathematician! Have completely new equations written up, not those kludges that the robots have been running on since the late nineties almost!" The Founder laughed, his white beard and flowing locks shaking slowly as his chest vibrated. "That ...
- 3284: Looking For Alibrandi
- ... loneliness and uncertainty that Nonna Katia would have felt. She says on page 117, "I just sat there, glad that I live in these times.. I don't think I could ever handle the quiet world she lived in." Another important discovery which is threaded throughout the book is Josephine's discovery on the whole issue of sexual relationships. We can see throughout the novel there is great pressure from Josephine ... could not get a single job interview in the husband's profession. Ms Rauber, the mother and wife of the family says, "We left our country, our families. We came to Australia to start a new life for us and our children." The author of the article, John Masanauskas writes, "Ms Rauber explained how the dream turned to a nightmare". The Rauber family, mentioned in the article, would have experienced much ... compares to the Rauber family's experiences. The article emphasises the fact that immigrants to Australia always face great difficulties, especially initially. This matches what Josephine discovers about her Grandmother's first days in the new country. 2. "No sex please, we're waiting" - non-literary magazine article from the Australian, New Idea, January 1999. This article discusses the pressures that young people face in the area of having sexual ...
- 3285: The Microsoft House
- ... chairman of this project is Bill Gates- Chairman and CEO of the Microsoft Corporation, Gates had some interesting things to say at a conference in Seattle, Washington on July 22, 1999: “The dawn of the new century will see the birth of the ‘PC-Plus’ era, enabling millions of Americans to live the digital lifestyle at home with their families as well as at work. The future has never been closer ... kids that introduces rhythm skills. While waving your hands in the air, the computer can pick up your movements, use them with virtual instruments and play them right on the screen. This brings a whole new meaning to the concept of an air guitar. · A picture frame that rotates through your favorite digital images to give your home a variety in the pictures that you see. · A computer linked to your ... any reason you can pause WebTV™ and it will stop the live broadcast and record it to be picked up again at anytime. Many of the features in the “Taj Mahal” will revolve around this new way of viewing. The house is very lovely inside too! With plush carpeting, stainless steel everything in the kitchen, and beautiful furniture everywhere, the ambiance is a good match with the content of what ...
- 3286: Tupac Shakur
- Tupac Shakur was a very influential person in 20th century USA. He was born on June 16, 1971 in Brooklyn New York, and died on September 13, 1996 in Las Vegas Nevada (unknown author, no title, no page, letter code C). But his family moved around a lot while he was a kid (Bastin, J.D ... that he follows. He even said it's hard sometimes, but he keeps it up. He said "To me it's really troubling because I look over what's successful - Marky Mark, Hammer, Vanilla Ice, New Kids on the Block selling twenty-two million copies, and I want that so badly, but I can't do that. I would be wrong to do that, knowing what I know and having the ... on music videos singing his newest song. They could also listen to the things that Tupac says he does, and then do those things themselves. I hope his values and beliefs in a non-racial world also influence people. He does say some bad things, but he did spend eleven and a half months in a maximum-security jail for something he claims he never did and says that he ...
- 3287: Great Britain
- ... made their own industries, this affecting Britain’s imports and exports. All over Britain factories, mills etc closed. By the 1990’s the worst of the decline had finished and Britain began to concentrate on new hi-tech and service industries. In the last 25 years, microelectronics has become one of the fastest growing sectors of Britain industry. It is a new phase of industrial growth which scientists call re-industrialisation. The future for Britain as a manufacturing nation looks good and it depends on whether it can develop and specialise in hi-tech industries such as aerospace, computers, electronics, telecommunications and biotechnology. The private car is the most popular form of transport for most British people. The British rail company is becoming more modernised – with new high-speed rail services. Air transport in Britain is also important and very popular. The British industry is now more efficient and competitive in the world markets because of the government’s actions of ...
- 3288: Serial Killers 2
- ... During the past twenty years, serial killings have become more frequent. We have even seen up to a half dozen of their cases on the news simultaneously. Cases such as San Francisco's Zodiac Killer; New York City's Son of Sam; Atlanta's child murderer, Wayne Williams; Los Angeles's Hillside Strangler; and Milwaukee's own, Jeffrey Dahmer. Many times, they fit into a pattern, but sometimes there is no pattern. The phenomenon is world-wide, from England's Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe's killing of 13 women prior to 1981, to Russia's Rostov Cannibal, Anderei Chikatilo, who slaughtered and partially consumed at least 53 men and women over ... normal façade. Not all psychopaths are criminals. Some are highly successful people. After all, they are masters of manipulation. They can make you believe that they are the most caring, sensitive, charming people in the world. But it s all a show. Under the surface, they re hollow to the core complete egocentrics who care about nothing except their own greedy desires." The serial killer is absolutely the most frightening ...
- 3289: The Age of Exploration: Europe
- ... on October 12 when land was sighted at the Americas. Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian that represented the Medici Bank in Spain, chartered the coastline of Central America and described this as the "Mundus Novus", meaning "New World". In 1507, a German cartographer labeled the continent America named after Amerigo Vespucci. He also explored the coastline of Central America. Juan Ponce de Le˘n set out to find the Fountain of Youth. He ... later named the "Strait of Magellan". He was later killed by Philippine Natives and four of his ships were destroyed. Only one ship made it back to Spain, making it the first voyage around the World in 1522. Eventually, Columbus claimed Cuba and Hispanola, which is now more commonly known as Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The Spanish Government never harmed the natives. In fact, they supported them on the ...
- 3290: Personal Computers
- ... the beginning, once your machine could connect to everyone else's via telephone lines. There is a global computer the size of humanity taking shape. Now that everybody can publish their own interests to a world audience on the Net, we learn irreversibly that the world is far stranger and more interesting that we would ever guess from magazines, books and broadcast media. Our sense of the world is altered and, oddly enough, in an optimistic direction. Two simple-seeming devices -- search engines and links -- have made search-space on the Internet more exciting than outer space. It is more current and ...
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