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0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.6,"Remember what she said in my last letter? """
0.5,0.55,0.5,If I wasn't working here.
0.5,0.5,0.5,".."""
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Here's another story of success from what might seem like an unlikely source: Goodwill's controller, Juli."
0.6,0.6,0.5,Please use the enclosed envelope to give a generous gift to Goodwill today!
0.5,0.5,0.5,What kind of work does Goodwill do?
0.6,0.55,0.55,"After Maureen's job coach taught her how to do her job in a restaurant, we helped Maureen step out of the shadow sometimes cast over people with physical and mental disabilities and find a fulfilling job smack dab in the middle of society."
0.5,0.5,0.5,Tax dollars that would have been spent on public assistance are saved.
0.35,0.35,0.6,You and I know that solutions to difficult problems don't just happen.
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.55,A Goodwill staff member addresses a group of welfare recipients:
0.44999999999999996,0.55,0.6,"""You can get off welfare."
0.6675,0.6675,0.5825,"once his tears have subsided, he confirms what his classmates have already figured out: he just received a job offer -- his first in five years."
0.5425,0.4575,0.5,At the next corner he tells five more.
0.625,0.5625,0.5625,"Eventually, he turns your support into a payoff for all of us."
0.6,0.55,0.6,Your support helps provide real solutions.
0.55,0.5,0.5,"Sincerely,"
0.55,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,"The gift that I am asking you to make will be used to continue our mission of helping people prepare for, find and keep jobs."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"In their December, 1995 review of the nation's best charities, U.S. News & World Report called Goodwill one of the five ""Standout Good Guys."""
0.55,0.6,0.55,"While I appreciate U.S. News & World Report's endorsement, the true value of your support is measured by the way Goodwill takes on problems that affect all of us."
0.5,0.5,0.55,And there are a lot of people who face these challenges every day of their lives.
0.6,0.65,0.6,Who has benefited from our partnership?
0.5,0.5,0.5,Everyone has.
0.6,0.5,0.44999999999999996,You and I have done some important work together.
0.625,0.5,0.5625,"At last, he has found success in a job that he loves."
0.5,0.375,0.5,"Like Michael, they share two common characteristics."
0.6,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,"Last year, participants in Goodwill programs earned --and paid taxes on -- wages of nearly $3.5 million."
0.5825,0.5,0.5825,"Sincerely,"
0.5,0.5,0.5,P.S.
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Dear ,"
0.5,0.4175,0.5425,We need your support to continue getting people off of public assistance.
0.25,0.5,0.5,More than 100 were homeless.
0.65,0.55,0.5,"But Goodwill offers hope even to people with numerous obstacles to overcome, like Jerry."
0.5,0.4,0.44999999999999996,"For as long as he needs it, Goodwill will continue to help."
0.6,0.30000000000000004,0.4,"And, with your assistance, Goodwill can help employers develop resources to keep workers on the job."
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.5,He went to the Center Township Trustee for food stamps until he could find a job and a place to live.
0.55,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,The Trustee referred him to the Blue Triangle where he consulted Goodwill's Career Academy staff for job search assistance.
0.5,0.35,0.65,"When Jerry was released from prison, he knew it would take hard work and determination to straighten out his life."
0.4,0.5,0.4,"Unemployed, homeless and with a prison record, Jerry now faced going back to prison for failure to pay child support."
0.25,0.6,0.4,"Without private donor support, this Fund doesn't exist."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Many need furniture, linens and other basic necessities to begin lives on their own."
0.5,0.5,0.55,"Name Address City, ST Zip"
0.55,0.5,0.5,Individuals who are being emancipated are eligible to receive up to $500 from the Fund if they formally apply and meet four requirements:
0.5625,0.5,0.5,"Dear ,"
0.6,0.55,0.65,2. Successful completion of all life skills tests
0.4175,0.5,0.5,"Little ones, like Baby Jessica, caught in the struggle between adoptive and birth parents."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"In 1996, these figures will triple."
0.5825,0.4575,0.5425,"The children and families who come to Pleasant Run are given the opportunity to become happy, loving, and productive members of our society."
0.5,0.6,0.55,"The Funding sources are shrinking, but the needs grow explosively."
0.55,0.5,0.5,Your gift will give children and families hope for improved tomorrows.
0.35,0.55,0.5,"Older kids, like Tracy and Kerry, left homeless after a recent murder-suicide in Indianapolis claimed Mom and Dad."
0.625,0.5625,0.4375,"and John H., a recovering alcoholic, rebuilding a relationships with his family so they can live together again."
0.5,0.55,0.55,Pleasant Run Children's Homes began serving children nearly 130 years ago.
0.5,0.4375,0.5625,"for others, it's years."
0.625,0.625,0.5625,Please help us help them.
0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,0.55,This is not newsletter.
0.5,0.5,0.5,"whether it's for therapeutic help in their own homes (which nurtures whole families), through foster care families or in the familial surroundings of our residential homes."
0.6,0.55,0.5,It may help a family stay together.
0.625,0.6875,0.6875,It can certainly make happy holiday memories.
0.6,0.44999999999999996,0.5,"It can help purchase clothing, school supplies, books and educational tools throughout the year."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Sincerely,"
0.55,0.5,0.5,Pleasant Run cares for at-risk children and families.
0.5,0.375,0.5425,"We do this through a wide range of programs including community- based, therapeutic foster care, group homes and our treatment center."
0.6875,0.5,0.5625,Thank you for considering this opportunity to make this a memorable holiday season for a family in need.
0.55,0.44999999999999996,0.55,"Sincerely,"
0.5,0.5,0.55,"Every year we seek companies, organizations and individuals to sponsor one or more of our families."
0.35,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,"But, the holiday season is a particularly difficult time for these families."
0.55,0.4,0.4,"At Pleasant Run, Inc. we are making plans and arrangements for our children and families."
0.5,0.5,0.5625,"June 1, 1998 BOYS & Girls Club OF INDIANAPOLIS"
0.55,0.44999999999999996,0.55,"Six weeks of learning and exploring, sports, arts, and fellowship."
0.65,0.5,0.6,"I know you're committed to ensuring today's children have safe, healthy, and positive summer experiences."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"James Campbell President of the Board Deputy Chief, Indianapolis Police Department"
0.5,0.5,0.5,We reach out to kids -- especially those from disadvantaged neighborhoods where the risks are highest.
0.5625,0.5,0.5,"We give them a chance to realize their own potential by giving them a place where they can develop a sense of competence, of usefulness, a sense of belonging and of influence."
0.30000000000000004,0.55,0.5,"Kids today face overwhelming pressures, everything from trouble at home to gangs and drugs."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"The Jameson Grill has been designed to be nothing but fun for you, your family, employees, and maybe even your neighbors."
0.75,0.6675,0.5,"Come one, Come all to the Inaugural Jameson Grill"
0.7,0.75,0.5,A fund raiser dedicated to you and your family having fun!
0.5825,0.5,0.5825,The Grill will feature enough activities that you and your kids will have a tough time deciding what to do.
0.55,0.5,0.44999999999999996,"From basketball, kickball, volleyball, archery, crafts, an egg toss, and even a walk through our creek, you will have plenty to do to get you good and hungry."
0.5,0.5,0.44999999999999996,This is where we need your help.
0.5425,0.4575,0.5425,Can you help support this wonderful event by furnishing any type of products or services that can be used as prizes for our activities or as a raffle prize?
0.6,0.6,0.6,Your contribution will help with funding so Jameson Camp can continue providing the year-round camping experience that gives kids a chance to create dreams.
0.5,0.4175,0.5,"July 11, 1997"
0.5,0.55,0.5,"Sincerely,"
0.7,0.55,0.5,Thank you for your last Annual Fund Gift!
0.5,0.4175,0.5,"The camp offers summer residential programs for children from ages 7-17, and continues contact with the campers and their families with special overnight and weekend follow-up events during the school year."
0.65,0.55,0.55,This year Jameson Camp is planning an Inaugural fund-raising event: The Jameson Grill!
0.6,0.65,0.44999999999999996,"Please, consider renewing your support of these great kids today."
0.4,0.5,0.44999999999999996,"It seems summer options aren't readily available for troubled kids whose families have limited incomes, so we're doing all we can to make Jameson available."
0.4575,0.375,0.4575,YL teens will make J.C. juniors happen again this year for 7 and 8 year old campers.
0.5,0.55,0.25,"If you can increase your last donation, we would appreciate that show of support for the campers and their efforts to overcome obstacles and create successful lives."
0.75,0.5,0.375,Thank you again for helping point the way.
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Sincerely,"
0.6,0.55,0.6,"If these special children are to become the adults we all need them to be, we have to lead them in the right direction right now."
0.65,0.4,0.6,Confidence.
0.6,0.55,0.55,"The end result will be kids who have a better understanding of and vision for their own future, be it college or a career."
0.5,0.4,0.5,"In return, we will recognize Target as a sponsor during our event and in the event program."
0.5,0.4175,0.5,"Name Address City, ST Zip"
0.5,0.4,0.44999999999999996,"This way when we go out to ask for community support and are asked about our board giving level, we can show our in-house commitment through 100% board participation."
0.5,0.4375,0.5,"Sincerely,"
0.44999999999999996,0.4,0.65,P.S.
0.6,0.4,0.5,This in turn will help us to increase and even improve the services we offer.
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.55,Transportation for youth and seniors
0.6,0.6,0.55,"CCI is a federation of 13 neighborhood-based multi-service centers (plus one affiliate) whose mission is to identify and meet the human service needs of the greater Indianapolis community in the most effective, efficient and comprehensive way possible."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Sincerely,"
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.6,Earline S. Moore President
0.5,0.375,0.375,Dear Name:
0.5,0.5,0.5,And we can do even more in 1999 with your financial support!
0.5,0.35,0.55,Just look at the range of services we offer:
0.5,0.5,0.5,Adult Day Care for seniors
0.55,0.4,0.55,"Annually, we ask several of our youth serving organizations to join us in our effort to help young people grow up well in Indianapolis."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.5,"If you have any questions or concerns at any time, please do not hesitate to call me at 921-1288."
0.6,0.55,0.6,"Participants in the Youth Outcomes Educational Initiative identified three goals for all our youth to obtain: economic self-sufficiency, healthy family, social relationships, and involvement in the community."
0.5625,0.5,0.5,"As you begin that process this year, I would like to ask you to consider helping young people in Marion County toward more positive youth development by becoming a supporter of the Marion County Commission on Youth, Inc."
0.5,0.3325,0.5,"One concrete example is a joint project undertaken in the United Northwest Area in partnership with The Junior League of Indianapolis and Community Partnerships with Youth from Fort Wayne, Indiana."
0.5,0.4375,0.4375,"McCoy invites the support of The __ Company Foundation in the amount of $10,000.00 to support such activities as:"
0.5625,0.5625,0.625,---- the promotion of youth employment opportunities;
0.5425,0.4175,0.5,---- the development of community-wide supports for the positive growth of all Marion County young people.
0.5,0.25,0.5825,"In the last several years, the business and corporate community has recognized that the positive development of youth is directly related to the development of a competent workforce."
0.5,0.5,0.5825,"It retained, however, the same mission with which it had been charged from its inception: to serve as a catalyst for effective, coordinated, and collaborative service delivery to youth in our community."
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.55,"While we have made significant inroads, there remains much to be done and it is clear that we cannot do it alone."
0.55,0.5,0.55,We seek the financial support of the Foundation to help us be successful in creating the atmosphere in our community where young people can grow and develop well.
0.5,0.5,0.5,"For the past three years, MCCOY has been actively engaged in accomplishing this declared mission in cooperation with many others: youth service providers, youth, funding bodies, and interested citizens to name a few."
0.65,0.6,0.55,Thank you in advance for your consideration.
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.6,"Sincerely, Judy Laikin, Chair Auction '99 Sponsor Committee"
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.55,"July 28, 1999"
0.6,0.6,0.55,The JCC would be very pleased to welcome your organization as a corporate sponsor.
0.625,0.625,0.625,"Your continued participation is very important to the JCC, as we work to build partnerships between businesses and our not-for-profit agency."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.5,"If you are a regular contributor to the Annual Campaign, I encourage you to consider increasing your gift by 10%."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"If you have not supported Big Sisters in the past, please join me in doing so by completing and returning the enclosed pledge form."
0.6,0.55,0.55,It's the perfect time to make a world of difference.
0.65,0.44999999999999996,0.5,"The relationships that are formed provide strong foundations from which healthy values and strong self-confidence can grow, helping youth become strong, independent adults of tomorrow."
0.5,0.375,0.375,"This year we will serve over 1,000 girls through our mentoring programs."
0.5825,0.5,0.5425,"This is an impressive number; but for each girl served, more are left unserved."
0.6,0.44999999999999996,0.65,"As a Matchmaker you will receive a description of ""your match"" and be identified as a Matchmaker on a plaque in the Big Sisters office, in the agency newsletter and annual report."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Sincerely,"
0.4,0.55,0.5,It's even harder when she isn't.
0.5,0.55,0.5,"It is a pivotal time in the life of a young girl-when small changes in her behavior, or the choices she makes, can affect her future."
0.55,0.44999999999999996,0.5,"The results of an 18-month study completed by Public/Private Ventures showed that children participating in one-to-one Big Sister and Big Brother matches for just one year, reduced first time drug use by 46%; lowered school absenteeism by 52%; cut aggressive behavior by 33%; enhanced school performance; and improved relations with family and friends."
0.6,0.55,0.5,reduced first-time drug use by 46%
0.6,0.44999999999999996,0.55,"Since then, she and I have grown very close and I have been able to experience lots of new things."
0.6,0.65,0.65,"I have become more open-minded, more responsible, and, most importantly, I have gained a lot more self-confidence."
0.44999999999999996,0.55,0.44999999999999996,But the need is still great.
0.5,0.5,0.55,You are an important part in making sure these young people are matched with caring adult mentors.
0.65,0.55,0.65,Your contribution will be used to recruit and retain quality volunteers.
0.55,0.4,0.55,Understand the world and change it where it needs to be changed...
0.5,0.4,0.5,"Gifts of $100 or more will be matched thanks to a special 25th Anniversary $100,000 Challenge Grant and will be placed in the Growth For Girls Fund."
0.5,0.5,0.55,"If you would like to find out more about the Big Sisters program, please call us, (317) 634-6102 and ask for Ellen Robinson."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.5,"Mr. Caring Philanthropy 01234 Giving Way Contribution, USA 56789"
0.65,0.5,0.55,Thank you.
0.5,0.5,0.625,We must be able to reach all youth and families interested in values-based programs.
0.55,0.5,0.5,"The Urban Mission Branch is reaching out to middle school youth with programs based on caring, honesty, respect and responsibility for themselves and others."
0.5,0.5825,0.5825,"I now invite you to continue to support the mission and the message that is so important to building strong kids, strong families and strong communities."
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.55,"Hall will be only the second member of Congress to travel in Iraq since the war, according to Hall's office."
0.4575,0.4575,0.5425,The sanctions cannot be lifted until U.N. inspectors certify that Iraq has eliminated its weapons of mass destruction and the means to produce them.
0.4,0.4,0.55,Iraq says it has done so and has barred inspectors since late 1998.
0.55,0.55,0.6,"He did not speak to reporters in Jordan, but he told The Associated Press before leaving the United States that he hopes to ""separate the humanitarian work from the political issues."""
0.5,0.5,0.5,Lawmaker Appeals for Innocent Iraqis
0.5,0.5,0.5,"One way would be to speed up the flow of health supplies and other urgent commodities to the country under a U.N. humanitarian program, he said."
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.55,"""We recognized that terrorism is a global threat and that the disturbing acts of terrorism and transnational crimes, which continue to threaten world peace and stability, must be tackled by the international community,"""
0.5,0.5,0.5,"""We recognized that terrorism is a global threat and that the disturbing acts of terrorism and transnational crimes, which continue to threaten world peace and stability, must be tackled by the international community,"" the ministers said in a communique on Tuesday."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.55,"Powell is among the representatives from 13 nations outside Southeast Asia, including China, Japan and Russia, that are taking part in the annual meeting of the group's regional forum."
0.5,0.4,0.5,"""some ideas and some initiatives"""
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.5,"At the same time, the Pentagon is reviewing how to allocate another $17 million in ""counterterrorism fellowships,"" some of which could go to Indonesia."
0.5,0.4375,0.625,"""I think they recognize the danger that we all face and I think they have been cooperating more fully with us as time goes by, and I'm quite sure that Mrs. Megawati is committed to this cause,"" Powell said in Singapore."
0.4,0.5,0.6,"The ethics panel, to which evidence from the criminal case was forwarded, concluded its review just as Torricelli is gearing up his campaign for re-election against the Republican candidate, Douglas R. Forrester."
0.4,0.44999999999999996,0.5,His brief stop in Malaysia also highlighted the moral ambiguities of the effort to prevent terrorism and its emphasis on cooperation with governments that the United States has often criticized.
0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,0.5,"The United States once distanced itself from Mahathir for strong-arm tactics with political rivals, and human rights groups criticize him for arresting and jailing scores of suspected militants, including some who may be linked to al-Qaida, without trial."
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.55,"The assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, James Kelly, met on Tuesday morning with Anwar's wife, Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, for what she later told Malaysian reporters was a discussion about both the detention of her husband and six supporters, and the campaign against terrorism."
0.25,0.5,0.4175,"""severely admonished"""
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,The deal would be part of Microsoft's drive to sign up wireless carriers to use its so-called smart phone software -- a pared-down version of the Windows operating system -- and services that Microsoft is developing as part of its .Net Internet strategy.
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.5,Microsoft's efforts to persuade wireless carriers to use its cell phone operating system have struggled.
0.3325,0.5825,0.3325,"Floyd did not produce the kind of offense the Expos expected from him, so Omar Minaya, the Expos' aggressive rookie general manager, turned around and sent him to the Red Sox in exchange two South Korean pitchers and a player yet to be named."
0.5,0.6,0.5,"Floyd can be a free agent after this season, and Minaya decided it would be more prudent to trade him and get value in return than have to settle for a draft choice or two as compensation when he signed with another team as a free agent."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,"""I don't know that he's that serious about moving him,"""
0.4,0.55,0.5,It was kids shooting kids.
0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,Starke could see that in many instances these were cases of lost dignity.
0.6,0.6,0.55,"The program is being copied by other cities and has attracted students from all walks of life, ages 16 to 68."
0.5425,0.4575,0.5425,The program is coordinated with the University of the District of Columbia.
0.55,0.55,0.5,He was recently named one of the 70 greatest Redskins.
0.5,0.5,0.5,"He earned a physics degree from Columbia, became a Redskin, studied drama, worked in sports broadcasting, opened a Washington restaurant and built his own home here when he thought he might become a developer, ""just so I could know how the business worked from the ground up,"" he said."
0.5825,0.5825,0.5,"In 1992 he sold it to begin work on the Excel Institute, putting up $300,000 to get things started."
0.375,0.5,0.5625,"""I saw a lot of kids and young men out there with no dads and no structure who couldn't read and some of them were beginning to realize that there is no growing old as a crack dealer -- you either die or go to jail,"""
0.5,0.4,0.4,"""My experience in the automotive industry was there was a dire shortage of auto technicians not only in America but internationally."""
0.5825,0.4175,0.5,The institute has a full-time staff of 18.
0.5,0.4375,0.5,Twelve of those are teachers.
0.5,0.5,0.5,Seventy students are participating in summer classes.
0.55,0.5,0.55,"""The document speaks for itself,"""
0.5,0.55,0.5,Not bad for a guy who was kicked out of high school in 1997 for threatening a teacher.
0.625,0.5,0.625,"""I did a lot of walking, got an interview and got a job and an opportunity of a lifetime,"" Orellana said."
0.5,0.375,0.5,"Edward Jewell, 56, retired from his job as a copyright assistant at the Library of Congress in 1993."
0.44999999999999996,0.55,0.55,"Within minutes after the committee released its letter publicly, Torricelli took the Senate floor Tuesday night to apologize to the people of New Jersey for allowing his seat in the chamber ""to be placed in this position."""
0.55,0.44999999999999996,0.5,"And when I become a technician, I will help the poor and needy by giving them affordable rates."""
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.55,Starke said the school would move to a building near the city's bus depot in the fall.
0.55,0.55,0.55,He is proud of the red Cobra 427 that sits in the school's workshop.
0.5,0.5,0.5,He has lived here for 20 years.
0.65,0.6,0.6,"""A lot of kids are afraid of 'the process' and I wanted to take 'the process' out. For this school, once they are in, all they have to do is come every day, come on time every day and work hard. A little more than 50 percent of our kids make it through. I want it to be more, but my job is not to see that everybody makes it; my job is to see that everybody has the opportunity to make it."""
0.4375,0.375,0.625,A little more than 50 percent of our kids make it through.
0.5,0.55,0.5,"Eight bidders were joined by 500 coin collectors and dealers in an auction house audience seemingly devoid of celebrity bidders, while an additional 534 observers followed the bidding on eBay."
0.5,0.375,0.5625,"As auction houses prepare for their fall seasons in an uncertain economy, the sale price ""suggests that the marketplace for important items is enormously strong,"" said David Redden, a vice chairman at Sotheby's, who was the auctioneer."
0.6,0.4,0.5,"""suggests that the marketplace for important items is enormously strong,"""
0.65,0.6,0.5,"""This is an astonishing new record for a coin,"" he said."
0.44999999999999996,0.4,0.55,"Henrietta Holsman Fore, the director of the U.S. Mint, who witnessed the sale, said, ""The monies we receive will go toward helping to pay down the debt and to fight the war on terrorism."""
0.65,0.6,0.55,"""a long historic journey, with a very satisfying ending."""
0.9375,0.625,0.625,"""I am thrilled with the price."""
0.5,0.55,0.55,"""This is the Mona Lisa of coins,"""
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.5,Most bidders dropped out after that price.
0.5825,0.5825,0.5,"""So the auction was almost like the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the convention,"" Stack said."
0.6,0.6,0.6,"Fore of the mint said the high price for the coin was reached ""because it is one of a kind, it is beautiful and it has a great story."""
0.5825,0.4175,0.6675,"In 1792, it was deemed that all gold and silver U.S. coins would bear the depiction of an eagle, but gold pieces were issued only after a gold rush boom in 1850."
0.5,0.5,0.5,They were called double eagles because their face value was twice that of the original $10 gold piece.
0.5,0.5,0.5,They were seized by the Secret Service and melted down.
0.5,0.4375,0.5,"But before these coins came to light, the royal legation of Egypt turned up with one at the Department of the Treasury, and somehow got an official to issue an export license for the coin to enhance the collection of King Farouk."
0.44999999999999996,0.55,0.5,"""Many people believe that our great coin rarities are vastly undervalued in comparison to old master paintings,"" Deisher said."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,"In a ceremony after the sale, Fore of the mint declared the coin the only 1933 double eagle ever to be legally issued by the U.S. government."
0.5,0.5,0.5625,"This ""monetized"" the coin, making it legal tender."
0.5,0.4,0.55,The Ethics Committee was unconvinced.
0.44999999999999996,0.4,0.5,"The committee has also considered that the principal source of the allegations against you is David Chang, a witness whose credibility has been called into question by the Department of Justice, a United States district judge and his own conduct."
0.6,0.55,0.6,"""Experience. Excellence. Carl McCall"""
0.65,0.65,0.5,Excellence.
0.55,0.55,0.5,"""Time Magazine called his life an American dream. Carl McCall, Army lieutenant, state senator, ambassador to the United Nations, school board president, Citibank vice president, and one of the most effective comptrollers in New York history."""
0.55,0.55,0.55,"Carl McCall, Army lieutenant, state senator, ambassador to the United Nations, school board president, Citibank vice president, and one of the most effective comptrollers in New York history."""
0.65,0.6,0.7,"""I grew up poor with a single mother. She said education's a sledgehammer. It can open doors to opportunity. That's what education did for me. As governor, I'll make sure that every kid in New York has the same opportunity I had, to get a good education."""
0.5,0.5,0.5,This advertisement is long on introductions and short on claims of merit.
0.5,0.55,0.6,"He had the title of ambassador when he was at the United Nations, but he was not the chief of the American mission."
0.4,0.65,0.44999999999999996,"The New Jersey Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned the death sentence of Leslie Ann Nelson, a transsexual go-go dancer who killed a police officer and an investigator with an AK-47 rifle."
0.44999999999999996,0.55,0.44999999999999996,"The court, vacating Nelson's death sentence for the second time, ruled on two grounds: that the jury could have been confused by instructions on the verdict sheet and that the prosecutor made improper accusations in his closing argument."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"The ruling, which does not affect Nelson's guilty plea, sends the case back to the trial court for resentencing."
0.44999999999999996,0.55,0.6,"While all five members of the majority found the instructions to the jury on weighing aggravating and mitigating factors to be confusing, two of those justices wrote in a partial dissent that the prosecutor's statements in his summation about the defense's expert witnesses were within the bounds of acceptable argument."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"In Marshall's case, the 5-1 decision upheld a lower court's dismissal of his petition for further review of his 1986 murder conviction."
0.5,0.55,0.5,Yet his anti-democratic behavior is an embarrassment to Washington and an affront to his own people.
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.5,"Ibrahim, who holds dual United States and Egyptian citizenship, is 63 years old and ailing."
0.4,0.4,0.5,"The verdict should be annulled, not just on humanitarian grounds but because his prosecution is an abrogation of the most basic standards of justice."
0.5,0.4375,0.5625,That is especially true of the State Security Court that ruled in this case.
0.55,0.55,0.55,"That aid bonanza was granted to reward Mubarak's predecessor, Anwar Sadat, for signing a peace treaty with Israel."
0.3325,0.5825,0.5825,Washington has never demanded good governance and democracy from Cairo in return.
0.5,0.5,0.5,"It is the right message, sent while it is still early enough to do something constructive about the disappointing quality of the work so far."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"While rethinking the plans will delay the original rebuilding schedule slightly, it does not need to stall progress if the governor keeps the pressure on the Lower Manhattan Development Corp."
0.5,0.55,0.65,"Pataki openly questioned the Port Authority's requirement that any plan for the site replace all the office, hotel and retail square footage lost in the attack on Sept. 11."
0.55,0.55,0.5,Lowering West Street alongside the World Trade Center site and building a park or esplanade on top is another option that has been popular with those reviewing the first six public proposals.
0.5,0.4175,0.5,"Now he needs to follow through with action, to keep demonstrating that his core concern is coming up with the best possible plan, not simply keeping the issue on hold until after this fall's election."
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.55,"But the Bush plan falls well short of the only other credible proposal on the table, a bill sponsored by Sen. James Jeffords, Independent of Vermont."
0.5,0.375,0.5425,"Even for the pollutants he addresses, Bush's timetable is too leisurely."
0.4175,0.5,0.5825,The ethics committee has the power to punish lawmakers with sanctions ranging from public or private letters of admonition to censure or expulsion.
0.5,0.6,0.6,We also agree that the law needs streamlining.
0.30000000000000004,0.4,0.55,"The Bush bill, as written, is not the way to get there."
0.4,0.5,0.55,"""This matter was far more serious than what the committee found,"""
0.4375,0.5,0.5,"The committee's letter did not mention Chang's reported gifts to Torricelli of an $8,100 Rolex watch, about a dozen Italian-made suits and a $3,816 antique grandfather clock."
0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,0.55,"But it said the senator had showed ""poor judgment"" by failing to reimburse him for the full market value of the gifts."
0.5,0.5,0.55,"The statues, the existence of which had not been publicly known before, were displayed in Torricelli's Senate office."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Finally, the committee appeared to have discounted Torricelli's contention that he was not responsible for expensive earrings that Chang had given as Christmas gifts to his sister, Stern and Balaban."
0.44999999999999996,0.55,0.55,"According to a government official involved in the inquiry, the information reviewed by the Ethics Committee also included an analysis by federal investigators showing that during the period in which Chang claimed to have made numerous cash payments to Torricelli, the senator spent thousands of dollars more in cash than investigators could account for from his bank withdrawals and other known sources of income."
0.5625,0.5,0.4375,"Pascoe said, ""Only then will New Jersey voters be able to decide Torricelli's fitness for office."""
0.5,0.5,0.55,"""Only then will New Jersey voters be able to decide Torricelli's fitness for office."""
0.5,0.55,0.6,"In meetings on Tuesday in Malaysia and Singapore before touching down in this oil-producing sultanate for two days of talks with members of the Association of South East Asian Nations, Powell said he repeatedly raised the issue."
0.5,0.5,0.5625,(please see The New York Times article I have included.)
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0.4575,0.4175,0.5,The same goes for the interview which follows.
0.5,0.5,0.5,The NRA was fully aware of the scandal it would cause through its rally and decided to push on because they believed to have enough media support to successfully do so.
0.55,0.5,0.5,They were right.
0.5,0.4,0.5,Moore presents the most important part of the speech to back up this point and ignores the fluff.
0.30000000000000004,0.6,0.5,And here the critics again ignore important evidence:
0.44999999999999996,0.55,0.44999999999999996,"When Heston mentions the mayor of Denver, the crowd boos loudly."
0.4175,0.6675,0.4175,Heston maganimously holds up a hand to read the mayor's letter (only to explain in detail why he chose to ignore the request -- not mentioning at all the reasons you have given!)
0.2,0.6,0.65,"This booing by the crowd, not mentioned with a single word in your transcript or your article, shows that the crowd was fully aware of the controversy they would cause by coming to Littleton after children were being killed there -- and they effectively said ""Fuck you""."
0.44999999999999996,0.55,0.55,To say that they could not have done otherwise is a bold lie by Moore's critics.
0.5,0.5,0.5,4) The Kayla Rolland case.
0.44999999999999996,0.4,0.5,"Again, standard filmmaking techniques are interpreted as smooth distortion:"
0.4375,0.4375,0.5625,"It is brilliantly, if unethically, done."""
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Concerning the Georgetown Hoya interview where Heston was asked about Rolland, you write: ""There is no indication that [Heston] recognized Kayla Rolland's case."""
0.44999999999999996,0.55,0.55,"Regarding the NRA website excerpt about the case and the highlighting of the phrase ""48 hours after Kayla Rolland is pronounced dead"":"
0.35,0.44999999999999996,0.55,"Unfortunately, because the zooming is rather fast, it is easy to miss the rest of the sentence, so as you correctly note, some viewers got an incorrect impression."
0.5,0.5,0.55,"If Moore wanted to deceive his viewers, why would he say this, and show the month the interview was published?"
0.5,0.6,0.55,"b) Why should Moore leave the words ""Clinton is on the Today Show"" visible in the text, which is necessary to correctly interpret the highlighted part?"
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.5,I reviewed the sequence several times and it is perfectly possible to see this text without pausing.
0.6,0.55,0.55,"""Having created the desired impression, Moore follows with his Heston interview."""
0.5,0.5,0.5,The Heston interview is at the very end of the movie.
0.5,0.5,0.5,"On your webpage, you state that ""Moore's resolution is questionable."
0.35,0.4,0.5,"""Moore's resolution is questionable."
0.35,0.7,0.6,"These people do not feel the need to express sympathy, or to think about ways to avoid such incidents, but they feel the need to assert their ""rights"" and to look for quick, simple answers -- as Busch states, gun owners wanted to ""hang [the child] from the highest tree""."
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.5,"This is all not mentioned by critics of Moore's movie, who claim to be objective."
0.5,0.5,0.5625,"""For all we can tell, Moore could have shouted 'Hey!' to make Heston turn around and then remained silent as Heston left."""
0.5,0.65,0.5,'Hey!'
0.4375,0.4375,0.4375,Did the 19th century NRA in the southern states promote gun rights for black people?
0.3325,0.5825,0.5,"This is the key message of this part of the animation, which is again being ignored by its critics."
0.35,0.6,0.44999999999999996,"The kid was a little bastard, and the parents were involved in drugs -- case closed."
0.35,0.44999999999999996,0.4,"In poor areas, the highly profitable drug business obviously is often seen as the last resort."
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.5,"But the real cause here are not the drugs themselves, but poverty and the ""war on drugs""."
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.6,"If, as Moore implies (although never states as fact), video games and violent movies are relatively harmless, it does not logically follow that all types of media presentation are harmless."
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.55,"Even the official quoted by Moore blames the welfare to work program, knowing full well that the drug issue is a red herring."
0.4,0.55,0.44999999999999996,"Poverty is frequently portrayed as natural, and the poor in America are seen by conservatives as VCR-owners who are just too lazy to work."
0.4,0.55,0.44999999999999996,"In reality, what Moore describes here is the most vivid example of what can only be called wage slavery I have ever seen, to the detriment of families."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,"It is notable that the Wall Street Journal's reaction to this segment of the film was even more dismissive than yours: It called Moore's claim ""preposterous""."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Never mind that they did so not out of some humanitarian motivation, but because of the Taliban's violent enforcement of the ban on opium poppies."
0.44999999999999996,0.4,0.55,Never mind that this very argument has been used by hawks in opposition to sending humanitarian aid to Iraq's Saddam Hussein.
0.35,0.55,0.6,"There is a huge difference, for example, between playing a game like ""Quake"" and listening to a radio broadcast that tells you that your family will be killed unless you take action to kill others now."
0.44999999999999996,0.55,0.5,Never mind that the Taliban continued selling opium in spite of the deal.
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.55,"It is the second intuition which gun rights groups like the NRA seek to obscure using fraudulent data by the likes of John ""Mary"" Lott."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.55,"If these causes were addressed, gun ownership in the United States would not be a problem (but also unnecessary); just like it is in Switzerland."
0.4,0.5,0.44999999999999996,Canadian officials have pointed out that the buy is faked or illegal.
0.35,0.65,0.55,"Once again, you fail to distinguish between regular film editing and ""faking"" (a word which ""Canadian officials"" have never used; for such a distortion, Moore would have been boiled alive by his critics)."
0.5,0.55,0.55,"If Moore simply chose not to show how he revealed his identification to the salesperson, there is nothing fraudulent about that."
0.5,0.5,0.44999999999999996,"While this can in part be explained with his age and mental condition, if he is unable to defend the interests of the NRA, he should not be their spokesman."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Had Moore wanted to make a propaganda film, he would have used other material: photos from America's Emergency Rooms."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Interactive fiction like video games, on the other hand, presents violence in a narrative context, which may very well desensitize participants to said violence, but no causative link has ever been proven."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.5,"According to the LA Times, the documentary genre ""owes a huge debt to Michael Moore"" -- after Bowling's success, films like ""Spellbound"" and ""Capturing the Friedmans"" were taken seriously and shown in many more theatres than otherwise likely."
0.5,0.5,0.55,"Moore's hypothesis (which apparently comes at least in part from the book ""Culture of Fear"" by Barry Glassner, also advertised on Moore's website) is that the constant bombardment with messages of fear can incite paranoia, which itself can lead to violent acts."
0.35,0.55,0.44999999999999996,"Children who grow up in war-torn regions are known for having similar views -- war is perceived as a normal part of existence, violence as a natural way to solve disputes."
0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,It is paradoxical notions like this one which Moore's film seeks to address.
0.5,0.5,0.5,"1) The bank scene, listed on your website on a separate page."
0.5,0.5,0.5625,"Critics have stated that this scene was ""staged"", but in the bank interview, the official tells Moore that the bank has its own vault storing about 500 weapons at any given time."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.5,"Dear David Hardy,"
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.44999999999999996,"It is not explained what ""normally"" is supposed to mean, but that claim flatly contradicts the statement of the bank official in the film."
0.5,0.5,0.5,There is nothing inaccurate whatsoever about the bank scene.
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.5,"This is perhaps the criticism repeated the most often, and it also the most inaccurate."
0.5,0.16749999999999998,0.5,The dialogue goes as follows:
0.5,0.55,0.6,"""So you don't think our kids say to themselves, gee, dad goes off to the factory every day - he builds missiles."
0.35,0.6,0.6,"""I guess I don't see that specific connection because the missiles that you're talking about were built and designed to defend us from somebody else who would be aggressors against us."""
0.375,0.5625,0.4375,"In a time of simple-minded patriotism, loud, clear and dissenting voices like Mr. Moore's are perceived as disturbing and have to be silenced, partially through well funded public relations campaigns, partially through conservative ""grass-roots"" propaganda."
0.4375,0.4375,0.625,"Moore is not from Colorado -- his question is generic, not meant to refer specifically to the Lockheed Martin plant in question."
0.4175,0.5825,0.5825,McCollum understands it this way -- otherwise he would protest against the plant being mischaracterized.
0.6,0.55,0.6,"It tells viewers: Aha, this is the person we are talking about."
0.5,0.55,0.55,"It is Moore's way to say: Viewers, meet Charlton Heston, gun nut extraordinaire."
0.4375,0.5,0.5625,"The ""visual of a billboard and a narration"" is viewed by you as evidence that Moore is trying to somehow tie the two events together, when in reality, it is quite obvious that he does it to separate the introduction of Heston from his speech in Denver."
0.5,0.4,0.5,Inauguration of free zone in Dubai for e-commerce
0.55,0.5,0.55,"The preliminary stages of the project, the only one of its kind according to its designers, are estimated at $200 million."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Sheikh Mohammed, who is also the UAE Defence Minister, said during the launching ceremony ""we wish to make Dubai a center of modern economy""."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"The minister who has a personal website on the internet, further said that he wanted Dubai to become the best place in the world for the advanced (hitech) technological companies."
0.5,0.4,0.5,Dubai 01-82 (AFP) -
0.55,0.5,0.55,"Dubai's Crown Prince Sheikh Mohamed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum inaugurated a free zone for e-commerce today, called Dubai Internet City."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.55,"The e-commerce free zone is situated in north Dubai, near the industrial free zone in Jebel Ali, the top regional and tenth international leading area in container transit."
0.44999999999999996,0.55,0.65,"If you do have something better to do, though, by all means do it ."
0.35,0.5,0.44999999999999996,"Granted grading papers is important, but no fun makes for a boring life."
0.7,0.6,0.55,"since, when I was your age I had fun playing with my adorable son and caring for another baby."
0.5,0.5,0.55,The one that really stuck in my mind was explaining transitions in the panels of Watchmen .
0.55,0.5,0.44999999999999996,"The post not only taught me something about the grammar of such images, but more importantly led to me realising that there is a grammar to look for in the first place."
0.65,0.5,0.5,"I also liked ""Teaching the Overdetermined Image."
0.7,0.7,0.55,"Your takedown of Cashill and the whole Ayers-wrote-Dreams was excellent, and the Cruel_cruel_death post (you know what I'm talking about, right?"
0.55,0.5,0.55,Agree with the previous two comments.
0.6,0.6,0.65,"I don't remember if you've made noises here before about turning these into a book, but if you do you've got at least one reader."
0.55,0.6,0.5,I can't believe I wrote all that last year.
0.5,0.5,0.55,The posts I consider foundational to my current professional identity all seem to have been composed in 2009.
0.5,0.55,0.6,I'd completely forgotten about him.
0.2,0.44999999999999996,0.55,I sometimes wish I could forget that Pendelton is the Braves hitting coach.
0.5,0.5,0.55,"I didn't remember that I remember that, but now that I do, I do."
0.35,0.55,0.65,"Apparently the drug use, sexual excess, and weird UCI experiences haven't softened your brain yet."
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.5,"What's really bothersome, though, is when you only remember things from your distant past."
0.5,0.5,0.55,"A guess, but perhaps your grandfather's life at 22 was more interesting than the ensuing 70 yrs."
0.5,0.5,0.55,"Yeah, I remember Sambito from the Astros (when the Braves were in the old NL West because it made sense to have a team 3,000 miles from most of their division rivals)."
0.35,0.35,0.44999999999999996,But burned out toward the end.
0.5,0.5,0.55,"Apparently, he is a player's representative now."
0.5,0.5,0.55,I like to read about others watching baseball more than I like to watch baseball by a factor of nine.
0.35,0.6,0.7,nota bene: An overdue library book is a crime against Humanities.
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0.5,0.5,0.5,"These stalks will need to have receptors to measure the n-alkene levels present in another ant’s cuticular hydrocarbons, which research indicates is the marker for harvester ants of a nestmate’s current task, perhaps because the hydrocarbons are altered in the dry sun, causing a different ratio of n-alkanes to n-alkenes and the presence of branched n-alkanes in the hydrocarbon profile (Wagner, et al, 2001, as cited in Gordon & Greene, 2003)."
0.5,0.3325,0.5,"Antie’s stalks would also have receptors for the hydrocarbons themselves, which research shows indicate to the ants whether another ant is their nestmate (Arnold, et al, 1996, as cited in Gordon & Mehdiabadi, 1999), receptors to detect food, and receptors for three types of pheromones: those released by successful foragers returning with food, those released by successful patrollers returning to the nest, and those marking piles of trash as midden."
0.5,0.55,0.5,Such a robot would allow for both long-term studies of ant-robot interactions and studies of task-switching in the robots.
0.5,0.5,0.55,"Returning successful patrollers have an even greater effect on foraging activity: foragers will not leave the nest unless a patroller returns (Gordon, 2002), and the rate of foraging in a colony can be controlled by rolling glass beads coated with cuticular hydrocarbons extracted from patrollers into the nest (Gordon & Greene, 2003; Greene & Gordon, 2007)."
0.4575,0.4575,0.5425,"Midden seems to be marked in some olfactory way, since removing midden from nests makes them more likely to be invaded by other species (Gordon, 35)."
0.5,0.3325,0.5825,"All of these chemical receptors will be arranged in an array on a pair of chemical stalks, with four of each type of receptor per stalk."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.5,"These sensors will be of the type patented by Peterson, et al (Patent #4,492,949), and will feature several layers of electrically insulating and parallel flexible conductive rods arranged such that an exerted pressure may be measured in output voltage."
0.5,0.5,0.55,"These will correspond to the muscles of the ant’s mandibles, which provide sensorimotor feedback to the ant when grasping objects."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.5,Table of sensors and their relations to the ant.
0.5,0.4,0.5,"The red harvester ant lives in hot, dry deserts, building its nests in light yellowy sand and foraging for seeds deposited by winds and rain."
0.55,0.55,0.44999999999999996,Antie’s motors will allow it to move around and interact with its environment and fellow ants.
0.5,0.5,0.44999999999999996,"Two simultaneously operated motors will open and close the grippers, emulating the grasping power of the ant’s mandibles."
0.55,0.55,0.55,"A third motor will lift and lower the grippers, allowing Antie to raise and lower gripped items as an ant would by raising and lowering its head."
0.5,0.55,0.5,"Antie will have a hybrid software architecture: a subsumption hierarchy will be responsible for switching between behaviors, but many sub-behaviors will operate on a schema basis."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"The following global variables will be used throughout the pseudocode, and are compiled here for ease of reference:"
0.5,0.5,0.55,"Though fights sometimes do break out with other red harvester ants from different nests, intraspecies interactions tend not to be aggressive (Gordon, 11)."
0.55,0.55,0.5,Science fiction writers have been anticipating humanoid androids that could pass a Turing Test for years.
0.5,0.5,0.55,"For a simple start, the forward cruise function will merely take in a double integer representing a speed and cause Antie to move forward at this speed."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"The orientation and distance should be calculable by the polarization pattern according to the system set up by Lambrinos, et al."
0.5,0.5,0.5,The first function might look something like this:
0.5,0.5,0.5,The code may look something like this:
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.5,"The behaviors of the sterile workers may be divided into several subcategories: brood care, nest maintenance, patrolling and foraging."
0.55,0.55,0.6,This object detection process will be activated when the front bump sensor is stimulated or when both sonar detectors are stimulated.
0.5,0.125,0.5,The code may look something like this:
0.55,0.55,0.55,"Antie will also need to follow several different kinds of chemical gradient trails: it will need to track the trails left by successful patrollers, and localize the source of food-odors and midden-odors."
0.5,0.4,0.5,"Implementations of chemical gradient following robots using two sensors on “antennae” stalks has been successful in with analog robots in the past (Webb, 1998), regardless of the potential problem of airflow causing a disturbed gradient over evaporating pheromones."
0.5,0.4175,0.5,The differences between these outputs is what is being compared everywhere there is a “left_IP” or “right_IP.”
0.5,0.4,0.5,"For the purposes of calls later in the pseudocode, I will refer to these subroutines as trailFollow(), findFood(), and findMidden()."
0.5,0.35,0.44999999999999996,The code will be similar to the object identification subroutine and may look something like this:
0.55,0.44999999999999996,0.5,"Research has shown that red harvester ants switch tasks partially as a function of age (ex., Ingram, et al, 2005) and partially as a function of interactions with other workers (ex., Schafer et al, 2006; Gordon, 2002; Greene & Gordon, 2007)."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"To control for this behavior, Antie’s explore subroutine will display a preference for exploration in places where there is a low gradient of nestmate pheromones."
0.5,0.30000000000000004,0.5,Code for the patrolling behavior might look like this (note that part is on a schema basis):
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.5,The integers nestpatrol_age and trailpatrol_age will represent the ages at which it is appropriate to switch to these tasks.
0.5,0.5,0.5,This algorithm will keep track of the last two intensities of the desired chemical input and compare them.
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,"Workers probably switch to patrolling based on their perceived life expectancy and as a function of a gene whose expression changes between young and old ants, and this is easily emulated using a clock pulse counter in Antie’s CPU that will count its “age” since last boot."
0.44999999999999996,0.35,0.55,Activated foragers form a queue to exit the nest and exit at a steady rate.
0.5,0.5,0.5,Conclusion
0.55,0.6,0.5,"Antie will be a fully autonomous, situated and embodied agent, infiltrating a red harvester ant colony and providing valuable information not only about the hypothesized rules of these ants’ behaviors and their task-switching thresholds, but also about the combination of complex behaviors into a single autonomous system with the ability to switch between behaviors as necessary."
0.5,0.55,0.55,"In addition to following these trails to the food, foragers must also be able to identify food, grasp it and carry it back to the nest."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Ants engaged in all three behaviors must be able to identify other nestmates and their current tasks (as well as indicate to other ants their own nestmate status and current task), walk, navigate both within and outside of the nest, and of course switch tasks at appropriate times."
0.6,0.6,0.6,Antie will be implemented on a tiny Road Warrior robotic system.
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.55,"Antie be a circular robot, no more than 1cm in diameter (the length of a red harvester ant), with two driving wheels and one rear wheel for stabilization."
0.55,0.55,0.55,Antie will likewise recharge at a special station at night just inside the nest entrance.
0.5,0.375,0.5,"In an attempt to mimic the red harvester ant as closely as possible, these sensors include a thermometer, photoreceptors, bump sensors and sonar, a polarization compass, and a series of chemical receptors on a pair of stalks corresponding to the antennae."
0.5,0.5,0.6,"The thermometer will be located on the rear of the robot to keep it out of the way, and will detect and input to the robot the outside temperature in degrees Celsius."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"No robot has yet been constructed, however, that could pass undetected within a colony of the red harvester ants species Pogonomyrmex barbatus; nor has a robot managed to pass undetected in a society of insects while combining in its design several different behaviors and the thresholds of stimulation required to switch between them."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"The sonar will constantly be detecting nearby objects and initiate an escape maneuver when their inputs pass a certain threshold of stimulation, and the bump sensors will, when depressed, also initiate the escape function."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,"In contrast, Colombian indigenous groups are divided to the extent that linguistic diversity is not only valued, but serves to split the population, both between groups and within groups themselves."
0.55,0.55,0.55,"An example is the Tukanoans: while considered a single “ethnic group”, they maintain 16 distinct language groups and practice linguistic exogamy, in which members of one language group must marry into another (Jackson 1995: 4)."
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.5,"Indigenous cosmology, or “cosmovision”, is difficult to translate into Romanticized languages; it maintains a concept of culture, defined as “the form of behavior resulting from a permanent harmonic relationship with Nature” (Gow and Rappaport 2002: 58) and view of history as cyclic that is often at odds with Western modes of thought."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.5,"Conflict between cultures arise as cosmovision is rediscovered and developed, often by native shamans in tandem with indigenous leaders aided by outside researchers and non-governmental organizations."
0.5625,0.625,0.5,"Language plays a complex and integral role in the development and redefinition of an identity, particularly when that identity has been oppressed and subsumed by a dominant other for as long as that of the indigenous peoples in Latin America has. In particular I will examine two divergent yet remarkably parallel cases, that of the Maya in Guatemala and the Nasa and Guambiano peoples of Colombia."
0.4375,0.4375,0.5625,"Illiteracy and poverty is associated with Maya; thus there is the conflict between the desire to recapture the unique Mayan identity via the language and the need to improve living conditions, which most often occurs under Spanish influence."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.55,This intersection of language and indigenous identity poses challenges which have yet to be fully addressed.
0.5,0.5,0.5,"In Colombia, legal successes have often come about due to the Colombian government's recognition of the political viability of the rhetoric of indigenous rights; by granting indigenous peoples judicial sovereignty they hope to win the trust of a people who view the government as incapable of protecting them from the ongoing civil strife, and by giving them blocks of land they hope that the indigenous community will be able to keep out drug traffickers and guerrillas where the government itself has not (Jackson 1995: 8)."
0.44999999999999996,0.55,0.5,Conflicts arise due to internal differences and the ever-persist problem of defining indigenous identity and authenticity in a pluralistic linguistic environment.
0.4,0.55,0.5,"In reality land ownership rights were the exclusive right of the Spanish, resulting in modern-day malappropriation of land ownership in the hands of the descendants of the Spanish colonialists (Warren 1978, 7-8). Indigenous peoples are commonly sharecroppers or migrant workers."
0.4,0.5,0.5,"Guerrilla warfare has since become a part of Colombian life; multiple groups maintain an ongoing presence, often stationing themselves in the remote mountainous villages often populated by various indigenous peoples."
0.35,0.5,0.55,"This resulted in persecution against the Mayans, who make up about 60% of the overall population. In both counties, guerrillas were often associated with the native peoples; in many cases there were coalitions, but in others the guerrillas merely used the remote, inaccessible villages as hideouts."
0.5,0.35,0.44999999999999996,"Pan-Mayanism has succeeded in part due to its focus on issues of ethnicity; it largely avoids specifically political overtones, instead concentrating on the development of the reemerging Mayan culture (England 2003: 734)."
0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,0.55,"This results in part from the ingrained influences of Spanish colonialism: Spanish continues to be associated with modernity and social mobility, whereas Maya is seen as backward and inferior."
0.5,0.5,0.5,By doing so they hope to inculcate among the Mayan peoples a renewed sense of pride which will in turn reverse the dogma of Spanish superiority.
0.5,0.375,0.375,"Several competing and oftentimes conflicting indigenous rights advocacy groups have developed: the ONIC poses itself as the sole pan-Indian group, yet lacks legitimacy in the eyes of many indigenous peoples (Jackson 2002: 83, 85)."
0.4175,0.5,0.4175,"It often stands in conflict with the AICO, its Guambiano counterpart (Jackson 2003: 83-84)."
0.4,0.55,0.55,"In the 1990s the rhetoric of ""cultural diversity"" was picked up the Colombian media, and subsequently entered the consciousness of the greater metropolitan public, thereby cementing its place in Colombian society as necessity and further complicating the role of indigenous movements in gaining rights for indigenous peoples as a whole."
0.35,0.6,0.44999999999999996,"True, the USA has not suffered a successful major attack since 9/11, but this does not mean that we are safer."
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0.5,0.5,0.44999999999999996,What could be more spectacular than the 9/11 attacks?
0.30000000000000004,0.55,0.4,"All of our frantic preparations may have had some effect in preventing small-time casual attacks, but they cannot stop a serious planned attack, any more than a mere door lock can stop a serious robber who really wants to get into your house."
0.5,0.5,0.4,"So the Bush administration can keep claiming that we are safer now, under their policies."
0.44999999999999996,0.6,0.55,"But this claim is merely feel-good propaganda, intended to keep the neo-cons in power."
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.5,"And proof that Bush has failed may come at any moment, explosively, with one big successful attack here in the USA."
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0.44999999999999996,0.55,0.5,So you end up fighting the entire population.
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.5,"In all of these cases above, if the radical Muslims would cease their attacks, all terrorism on both sides of every dispute would quickly end."
0.44999999999999996,0.55,0.55,The Anti-Terrorist - Undermining The Motivation For Terrorism
0.25,0.8,0.8,They need to be identified and attacked.
0.44999999999999996,0.55,0.55,"In every case of terrorism, we will find some kind of legitimate underlying grievance."
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0.3325,0.6675,0.5,Just imagine finding your favorite hiking trail or birding area littered with dead birds -- among the hundreds of thousands of unsuspecting and innocent creatures who were unlucky enough to consume lethal doses of a slow-acting poison spread in fields miles away.
0.4575,0.5,0.5425,"You see, the USDA found a loophole allowing these protections to be lifted for “experimental” activities."
0.44999999999999996,0.55,0.5,The USDA wants to conduct an “experiment” that will spread enough poison in our environment to kill two million blackbirds.
0.4,0.55,0.44999999999999996,We simply cannot afford to let the government repeat the mistakes of the past ... and operate this deadly and uncontrolled experiment on wildlife.
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0.5,0.55,0.5,"I’ll forward your Petition, along with those from thousands of other Audubon members and supporters, urging the USDA to withdraw its cruel plan to poison blackbirds ... in favor of alternative, benign methods of protecting sunflower crops."
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0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.65,but it is in fact this motivic relationship that ties them together and creates a rather smooth transition.
0.55,0.4,0.5,Harmonic Structure and Form
0.44999999999999996,0.55,0.5,The drastic tempo and meter changes as well as the first appearances of staccato articulations make it clear to the listener that the introduction is over.
0.5,0.4,0.55,"We have already mentioned that the first theme group is in F—this is made clear from the onset, both in the melodic line and by the F minor triad that occurs on the downbeat of measure 77."
0.5,0.4375,0.5625,"The trombone motive in measures 134-141, shown in Example 12, is the subject of the fugato section in part 3 of the development, although its importance is downplayed here."
0.5,0.4175,0.5,"Note that the initial G♯ is a pickup to the section in C♯, which fills in the whole-tone descent from E♭ to C♯ with the intervening fourth."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.5,"The descent in measures 91-95 in fact participates in the farce by projecting a descent ending on C, which makes the eventual reinterpretation of C and descent to B stronger."
0.55,0.44999999999999996,0.55,"This creates both a smooth transition to the second theme and a strong sense that a new section is beginning, a combination that is generally rather difficult to forge."
0.5,0.5,0.55,"In our terminology, this is the point at which B is unequivocally established as the structural dominant."
0.5,0.5,0.55,"As mentioned, the development is divided into three subsections."
0.5,0.4175,0.6675,"there is no intervallic relationship between the two motives, and it is not clear what elements of a motive remain when rhythm, contour and interval content are changed."
0.5,0.5,0.5,Example 1 shows a diagram of the form of the movement; the symmetry is apparent within the seven sections following the introduction.
0.5,0.4175,0.5,This section is reproduced as Example 14.
0.5,0.5,0.5,"As tempting as this interpretation may be, this observation is relegated to the notes section because it constitutes a horrible abuse of terminology—there is only so far that such tonal analogies can go before they begin to hide any true analytical insight behind misused terms."
0.5,0.375,0.5,"The following section (measures 363-389) especially brings out the quartal harmonies within the pentatonic set, so much so that B♭ is obscured as tonal center which allows A♭ to emerge as the goal tone of this section—only to be immediately reinterpreted as a leading tone to the A that begins the recapitulation."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"It is worth pointing out that the arrival on G at measure 425 is led into by D, which constitutes another “filling in” of the whole-step by the intervening fourth."
0.5,0.4375,0.5625,"The return of the first theme is certainly immediately recognized as such; however, there are some important differences."
0.5,0.4,0.5,"Firstly, its initial appearance in the exposition had a minor flare to it; the first chord in Example 9 is an F-minor triad, and the first four notes of Example 8 ascend the F-minor scale."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"In fact, the chord progression of the first four measures of Example 19 can be thought of tonally as I-vi-V in F major—while we are reluctant to say that this passage is in major (the conspicuous A♭ in measure 490 easily brings doubt to this interpretation), we can certainly say that the minor flare of the beginning has been replaced by a major flare here in the recapitulation."
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.55,"Thanks largely to the work of tonal theorists such as Heinrich Schenker and others, we have a detailed system for analyzing tonal music—their system, however, is virtually useless in analyzing music that falls entirely on the atonal side of the spectrum."
0.5,0.5,0.5,References
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Bartók’s music, although it is often difficult to call completely tonal, never entirely sheds itself of tonal elements and structure."
0.5,0.3325,0.5825,Tonal Structure and Form in Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra (I)
0.5,0.30000000000000004,0.55,"Using this interpretation, we can map out the local tonics (tonal centers) used throughout the movement, as shown in Example 2."
0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,0.55,"Bartók has often applied a tonic-dominant relationship to a pitch-class and its tritone partner, and even admits to using that as a compositional framework in his fifth string quartet."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.5,"To begin with, the opening motive in the celli and basses, shown in Example 3, outlines a pentatonic set and strongly presents C♯ as the tonal center."
0.55,0.4,0.55,"Example 4 transitions from C♯ to F♯, and adds pitch-class E to the pentatonic set of Example 3, creating a six-note set of stacked fourths."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Each note is either approached or left (or both) by a fourth, and the structural motion is from F♯ to D♯."
0.55,0.55,0.55,"The overall motion in the first 29 measures is C♯ to D♯, through F♯; these are represented enharmonically in Example 2 as D♭, E♭ and G♭."
0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,0.55,It stabilizes and controls forms because it brings to light the contours of the space.
0.5625,0.5,0.5625,"“In the white painted room the clarity of spatial sensation and disposition was surest and most convincing, all the details of the form and color of the furnishings could be developed undisturbed in front of this background…In this a form was discovered which was completely convincing in its simplicity and which could be seen as one of the essential formulas for wall treatment in “closed” spaces”"
0.5625,0.5625,0.5625,Both as well were signs of the modern age man had reached.
0.5,0.4,0.5,"Furthermore, with the advent of industrialization the invention of new synthetic dyes meant that color in dress became democratized for all classes."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Now, anyone could afford to wear colorful clothing and the masses began to dress themselves in what once would have been inconceivable to them."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Seeing as color is something of the natural world, age old and archaic, washing it away from our lives is the ultimate form of rising above the physical world."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.5,"This led to the idea of writing = rationality = production that confined images, especially images in color, to the emerging field of “art”, which was understood as an essential activity but one that was essentially unproductive, while it assigned to the two-toned and orderly world of printed paper the role of a daily guide to existence”"
0.5,0.5,0.5,"“Intelligent beings have a language represented by articulate sounds; organized beings, like all animals and vegetables, express themselves by cries or forms, contour or carriage."
0.5425,0.4575,0.5425,"Seeing as since the time of Aristotle, form was valued over that of color, the arts which did not require color to be enjoyed were perceived to be that of a higher form."
0.5,0.4175,0.4175,It is the source of its profits. Kitsch is mechanical and operates by formulas.
0.5,0.5,0.6,Inorganic nature has only the language of color.
0.55,0.5,0.5,"It is by color alone that a certain stone tells us it is a sapphire or emerald… color, then, is the peculiar characteristic of the lower forms of nature, while drawing becomes the medium of expression, more and more dominant, the higher we rise in the scale of being”"
0.5,0.4575,0.5,"That was what made up the essence of an image, not the artificial, or superficial filling in of form with color."
0.5,0.35,0.44999999999999996,These beliefs have changed since color technology as tweeked to the point of being almost better than reality.
0.55,0.5,0.5,These non colors allow for the appreciation of color.
0.5,0.5,0.6,It is for this reason that ultimately the use of black and white is seen as more of an intellectual process.
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,"Now we have entered an era where we are seeing once again more color, but perhaps it is human instinct, to want to surpass and rebel against generations before, so possibly we shall return to a state of non color veneration."
0.55,0.5,0.55,What would our lives be without color?
0.5,0.5,0.5,For black and white can only be seen as distinguishing against a background of color and for this very reason one can assert that both black and white are colors in themselves as non-colors.
0.5,0.4375,0.4375,"“That is to say, under the total absence of color, there is a vague reminiscence of all colors that have been “killed”"
0.6,0.55,0.5,Black and white are the consummation of all colors into one.
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.5,"color rests on the surface of an object, it is superficial, cosmetic and therefore deceptive since it hides the true nature of that thing."
0.6,0.55,0.55,"It is a descent in the way it makes one lose consciousness and enter into the physical world of desire, and to desire is to lose control over oneself."
0.55,0.4,0.5,"White is seen as representing spirituality, the heavens, and light, it is all which is modern, it signifies the opposite of the carnal nature of color."
0.6,0.4,0.55,"“WHITE is the spiritual color of our times, the clearness which directs all out actions."
0.55,0.55,0.5,"“The white surface exposes color, presents it for disciplining."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"White helps to harmonize colors that would otherwise clash, it brings together and unites."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"The first evening, the twenty-something students--most from my college, four from another--gathered in the shrine room, sitting cross-legged on cushions as we listened to Khenpo Kalsang introduce Tibetan Buddhist philosophy."
0.5,0.5,0.55,"He began by telling us, ""Do not take any of what I say on faith."
0.5,0.55,0.55,You do not go to the drugstore and buy everything in it--you just buy what would be beneficial to you now.
0.5,0.5,0.5,We discussed the foundations: the Three Turnings of the Wheel of Dharma; the four noble truths; karma; defilements; the six perfections.
0.5,0.4,0.5,"""So,"""
0.5,0.5,0.5,"""Only if you feel no regret,"""
0.55,0.55,0.5,"""Only if you feel no regret,"" he said."
0.5,0.5,0.5,Knowing and understanding
0.5,0.5,0.5,"""study the brain and the self externally. Ever since the 1920s, their science has been about observation of behavior, questionnaires, recordings of electrical brain activity. But the mind can only be known by you, the person whose mind it is."""
0.44999999999999996,0.55,0.5,"This sutra delved into some questions about the nature of the self, whether the self is a delusion, and how the clinging of self is a defilement."
0.55,0.55,0.55,"In the afternoon, a group of us gathered outside for a meditation session with Ani Kunga."
0.5,0.4,0.55,The key message:
0.44999999999999996,0.55,0.44999999999999996,"If there's nothing you can do, why are you unhappy?"""
0.55,0.55,0.6,"All the methods built off the idea that you are in control: anger is an emotion, and you can change your emotions."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.5,Stay tuned for a more in-depth post on the topic.
0.55,0.44999999999999996,0.5,Hanging the prayer flag shares your prayer with everyone else in the world.
0.4,0.5,0.55,"But if no one shares their prayers, it will certainly do no good."
0.5,0.5,0.5,The field work office at my college arranges this retreat every semester.
0.5,0.4,0.5,"Faded squares of fabric, strung together in repeating blue-white-red-green-yellow chains, crisscross the branches of bare-limbed trees."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.55,"""self-control"""
0.55,0.4,0.55,"So if you think you'll be able to achieve a goal, you're more likely to set it."
0.5,0.55,0.5,"Combine this with theories of self-control, and in general, if you believe you have unlimited stores of self-control, you'll set a larger number of goals."
0.5,0.55,0.55,"They propose that people with high self-efficacy--people who believe that failure is the result of insufficient effort, and thus exhibit increased commitment and persistence--will achieve more of their goals than people with low self-efficacy, who tend to view failure as the result of deficient ability, and thus may simply give up."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"The third study moved on to examine goal achievement, adding a measure to look at self-efficacy."
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.55,Self-efficacy did not have a significant effect on goal-setting.
0.5,0.55,0.5,"But in general, lay theories about self-control can determine how much success you'll expect (and thus, how many goals you'll set), and self-efficacy beliefs can determine how much success you'll actually have."
0.5,0.30000000000000004,0.5,"Journal of Consumer Research , 31, 779-786 [ PDF ]"
0.5,0.55,0.55,Making resolutions: It's about self-control
0.5,0.55,0.44999999999999996,"The question Anirban Mukhopadhyay of the Hong Kong University and Gita Venkatarmani Johar of the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University asked is this: What determines how many goals a person will set, and how successful a person will be at achieving those goals?"
0.25,0.65,0.6,"""You suck."" Chad said."
0.5,0.5,0.5,Chad checked the other fort out of the corner of his eye.
0.5,0.5,0.5,"He wished Roy wouldn't fall for that gag every time, ""get me a big rock, Roy."""
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,"A massive, rusted A-frame swing marked the border though nobody was swinging in the hot sun."
0.4,0.55,0.4,"They were watching now from well defended spy holes, or maybe they were performing secret experiments and swearing bloody oaths."
0.5625,0.5625,0.5625,Maybe Tucker would let him in after he saw Chad wasn't chicken.
0.5,0.5,0.44999999999999996,You wanna play robots?
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Roy stooped to pick up a big, white caliche rock that looked like a dirty lump of chalk and handed it to Chad."
0.6,0.44999999999999996,0.5,Roy had taught him to tie his shoes when Chad was five.
0.5,0.5,0.5,He took another careful look over his shoulder and bent to pluck a yucca spear as if that were what drew his interest.
0.4,0.55,0.44999999999999996,"The tiny barbs hurt, but nobody was allowed to beat you up if you just used stickers."
0.55,0.4,0.5,Every move Roy made since the accident was smooth and sudden and strange -- like a remote control boy.
0.5,0.5,0.5,Pop had given Chad the sideways glance that promised hard labor when they made it home.
0.5,0.5,0.5,He knew it was too late to explain that he was trying to get a smile out of Roy.
0.5625,0.5,0.4375,"Pop said, ""The doctors have put something very special in Roy's brain."
0.5,0.4,0.5,"How are you feeling, Roy?"
0.4,0.6,0.5,"Now, this year, Roy was in the same grade as Chad, and it was embarrassing."
0.5,0.5,0.5,Just then Tucker Williams came climbing out of the top of the black fort like a gold headed monster.
0.4,0.5,0.55,"Tucker was big, even for a third grader, and he was not quite right in a different way than Roy."
0.35,0.75,0.7,"""Time out!"""
0.5,0.375,0.4375,Several more boys spewed out after him.
0.44999999999999996,0.6,0.5,"Roy!"" Chad called, but his voice would only whisper"
0.375,0.5625,0.75,Chad strained and pounded the rock into the iron hole until he could smell the dust.
0.30000000000000004,0.75,0.7,You didn't fight!
0.4175,0.5,0.5,Tucker leaned in low and his breath was sour as it blew in Chad's face.
0.5,0.5,0.6,I'm gonna take the plug out.
0.5,0.5825,0.5,"From his pocket he pulled a small screwdriver, perfect for prying plugs from boy's heads."
0.375,0.5625,0.625,"Now Chad's legs and arms and mouth worked, and he was up and running and screaming, ""Roy, go inside! Roy!"""
0.5,0.6675,0.5,"Chad rounded the corner grabbing the cinder block to help him turn faster just as Tucker came down again with the tumbleweed from behind, and the world slowed almost to a stop."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.5,Roy stood with the bill of his cap down.
0.5,0.5,0.5,His head rose and his eyes focused over Chad's shoulder.
0.5,0.55,0.5,"Something whined as it spun past Chad's ear, and he heard a sharp, meaty thunk just behind him."
0.5825,0.4175,0.5425,"The rock was too big to fit into the iron hub of the big cable spool, so Chad leaned it against the tumbleweed and slid down off the splintery wood on his belly to admire his handiwork."
0.5,0.5,0.5,You ok?
0.5,0.4,0.5,"It was Roy, and when Chad looked up there was something like his brother there around the eyes."
0.4575,0.4175,0.4575,Chad stepped back away from Tucker's open-eyed face.
0.16749999999999998,0.5825,0.5,Just then Tucker blinked and began to sob.
0.5,0.4175,0.4175,Nah.
0.6,0.6,0.55,"""Yeah."" Roy said."
0.5425,0.5425,0.5825,Yeah.
0.5,0.30000000000000004,0.55,"The sufferer says no, only those which cause no pain."
0.44999999999999996,0.55,0.6,"And the artist says no, only those which cause the most pain, for those would be the truest memories."
0.6,0.44999999999999996,0.75,So I shall soothe my quarreling selves with a compromise.
0.5,0.5,0.44999999999999996,Is that love?
0.5,0.35,0.5,Then --
0.5,0.5,0.55,But I have learned something: writing trivializes.
0.55,0.55,0.55,"Published in Double Feature by Emma Bull and Will Shetterly (NESFA Press, 1994)."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.55,I asked.
0.4,0.5,0.65,"""No one,"""
0.5,0.5,0.5,"""No one,"" Tasha replied."
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.4,"Sometimes they would let us little ones to seal a treasured toy or a last piece of birthday cake until we begged them for its release, usually a few hours after enclosing it."
0.5,0.5,0.5,For Malaquez did not move into Dream's End until four or five months after I -- we?
0.30000000000000004,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,She did not like my plays.
0.55,0.44999999999999996,0.6,"Search ""Emiliano Malaquez"" and you'll find he's a master of the ""captured moment"" school of sculpture."
0.5825,0.5825,0.5825,Even The Terran Times has only praise for his work.
0.55,0.5,0.5,"You see the inspiration for my latest play, ""Captured Moments."""
0.5,0.4375,0.5625,The mindwipe will take its creation from my future self --but time too often does that without aid.
0.55,0.44999999999999996,0.55,"I took mine home, where they sat above my computer while I worked on my first play."
0.4175,0.5,0.5,"Shortly before she left, Tasha said, ""You steal from life for art, Bernardo."
0.5,0.5,0.55,"You'll impoverish yourself."""
0.44999999999999996,0.65,0.6,Nardo!
0.5,0.5,0.5,My mind was on other things.
0.55,0.44999999999999996,0.5,I suppose I could assist a friend.
0.5,0.55,0.5,"Later, I said, ""You've been chosen to succeed the Emperor."""
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,"""Well..."""
0.5,0.4,0.44999999999999996,"""That's, uh..."""
0.5,0.35,0.55,"""Imagine that."""
0.4175,0.5,0.4175,"I remembered an article in The Medusa and a photo of a work in which 100-peso notes fell like confetti onto a small Undersider, sexlessly young in grimy, oversized clothing."
0.4,0.5,0.5,The child's face was a warground for wonder and mistrust.
0.5,0.4,0.5,Imprisoned light from forgotten streetlamps snagged itself on metal threads in the fluttering pesos.
0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,0.55,"""I didn't meet him, jealous old one."""
0.25,0.44999999999999996,0.5,"""Too bad."
0.55,0.75,0.6,"""Hah!"""
0.5,0.5,0.5,"""Emil?"""
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Emil Malaquez."""
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.5,"""Ah."
0.4375,0.5,0.5625,"You did that to test my affections."""
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.55,"""Calling him by his first name."
0.5,0.5,0.5,I did that in a comedy once.
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,'Nights with Karl and Groucho.'
0.5,0.5,0.6,"A moment later: ""That's not why I called him 'Emil'."""
0.44999999999999996,0.4,0.55,"As you may have guessed, we had talked about such things."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"""Do you?"""
0.55,0.4,0.65,"""He'll be our neighbor."
0.5425,0.4175,0.5425,"""I've socialized for sixty-three years."""
0.5,0.5,0.65,"I said, ""Truthfully."""
0.3125,0.5,0.4375,"""I'm sorry."""
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Truly."""
0.30000000000000004,0.6,0.6,"""I'm sorry, too."""
0.8,0.65,0.5,She smiled.
0.55,0.55,0.6,"""If you wish, he may be dinner."""
0.5,0.5,0.5,"""And I, you."""
0.4375,0.5625,0.5625,"""You're jealous."""
0.5,0.5,0.5,"""A tiny bit."
0.55,0.55,0.6,"""Content yourself, old one."
0.44999999999999996,0.55,0.55,"He's four inches shorter than I, his nose is big and broken, and --"""
0.5,0.5,0.5,"""Perhaps."""
0.75,0.75,0.6675,And then we did make love.
0.7,0.55,0.55,"""Ah, she is wonderfully perceptive."""
0.375,0.5,0.5425,"""I did not expect you --"""
0.44999999999999996,0.55,0.5,"""So early?"""
0.5,0.5,0.5,"""What's that?"""
0.5,0.5,0.5,Bits of leaf mold flew from under his feet as he ran to greet a friend or a bringer of food.
0.75,0.55,0.44999999999999996,"Last year, I rented a small house on Vega IV, a sea world, all islands and reefs and archipelagos, turquoise waters and aquamarine skies, sunrises like symphonies and sunsets like stars gone supernova."
0.5825,0.5825,0.5825,Tasha oohed in awe.
0.5825,0.6675,0.5825,"""Ah,"""
0.5,0.5,0.44999999999999996,"""A little fellow with big, furry feet."
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.44999999999999996,I almost dropped it; I expected it to weigh no more than a holo.
0.5,0.5,0.4375,"""Um, I should wait to importune you, but..."""
0.55,0.4,0.6,"""It's easy for me to turn one down."""
0.7,0.7,0.55,""" --was glorious!"""
0.375,0.5,0.5425,"""I must change my subject matter."
0.5,0.5,0.6,"""Nardo!"""
0.1875,0.625,0.4375,This is torture.
0.35,0.55,0.55,"I once had a neighbor who played it constantly, loudly, and badly, so I thought I knew it better."
0.5,0.4175,0.5,"So, I think, did she."
0.4,0.35,0.44999999999999996,She had no choice but to follow.
0.35,0.55,0.55,"(I do not remember any of this well, just now, nor do I care to."
0.55,0.5,0.55,"Those who are truly curious may look at the last act of ""Captured Moments."""
0.30000000000000004,0.55,0.44999999999999996,"""I feel sorry for you, Nardo."
0.65,0.55,0.5,"""Yes,"""
0.4575,0.5425,0.5,"""You're all right?"""
0.44999999999999996,0.55,0.5,I muttered something he must have interpreted as assent.
0.35,0.55,0.44999999999999996,"Disgusted with Tasha but more disgusted with myself, I finally realized she would not return that night and went into The Sleeping Flamingo to drink myself to sleep."
0.35,0.65,0.6,"Sixty years ago in a similar situation, I had broken my knuckles on someone's face."
0.5,0.4,0.44999999999999996,"""I --"""
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.55,"""Please."""
0.5,0.55,0.5,"Tell her..."""
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.44999999999999996,I shrugged.
0.5,0.5,0.55,"I suppose I wish to show that I'm still capable of a certain authorial distance, a semblance of dispassionate observation."
0.4,0.44999999999999996,0.35,"He studied me, then said, ""I'm sorry things happened this way, Bernardo."
0.30000000000000004,0.55,0.44999999999999996,"""I'm sorry things happened this way, Bernardo."
0.30000000000000004,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,"But if Tasha will forgive me --"""
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.44999999999999996,"I heard no voices until Malaquez said, ""Enter."""
0.55,0.7,0.5,Tasha lay sprawled nude on a rumpled bed.
0.5,0.5,0.6,The following events may indicate otherwise.
0.6,0.75,0.7,"I shouted, ""Where is she?"
0.5,0.55,0.5,"""Where is she?"
0.30000000000000004,0.6,0.35,He began to cry.
0.5,0.5,0.5,Her clothes lay by the cube enclosing the bed.
0.6,0.8,0.6,"""Where!"""
0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,0.4,Our boat would disappear into the ocean to be found or not as the wind and tides chose.
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Mine was The Sleeping Flamingo, and its outer walls were coral pink."
0.4175,0.5825,0.4175,"I wanted him to tell me more, but he babbled, begging me to forgive him, to understand."
0.44999999999999996,0.65,0.4,Or perhaps I was thinking about the things that humanity made that would outlive our species.
0.5,0.4375,0.5,But I was probably only looking at my reflection in the capturador's lens.
0.375,0.4375,0.4375,I could say that I did not dare to take responsibility for her fate.
0.5825,0.5825,0.5,"If science finds a way to safely free the subjects of Emil's art, perhaps the I who reads this file will know that my decision is wise."
0.35,0.55,0.35,But I cannot stop thinking that I was never afraid of losing Tasha to brain damage or death.
0.4,0.6,0.44999999999999996,"My fear is that she would live, and I would learn that I had lost her long before Emil Malaquez translated her into a thing that can be kept, admired, and loved."
0.55,0.6,0.6,"Her brows drew together, creasing the lovely, caramel-colored skin around her eyes and showing the pattern for an old woman's wrinkles on her forehead."
0.6,0.6,0.65,"Her lower lip (a trifle too narrow for her face, perhaps her only physical flaw) thrust forward slightly as she started to speak."
0.35,0.4,0.25,What could I do?
0.15000000000000002,0.8500000000000001,0.75,"I hate it, despise it, abhor it!"
0.4,0.6,0.6,"It's gaudy, graceless, pretentious -- That house is an affront to taste and intelligence."
0.5,0.5,0.44999999999999996,I think she only heard the last words of my speech.
0.7,0.6,0.5,"""It amuses me."
0.5,0.4,0.6,"Show me around, and then I shall decide."""
0.35,0.55,0.75,"""And stop calling me 'señor'."
0.55,0.55,0.5,"""If you wish."""
0.5,0.5,0.5,"""How's that?"""
0.4,0.55,0.44999999999999996,"""Worse?"""
0.375,0.5,0.5,"""Thoroughly ugly,"""
0.44999999999999996,0.55,0.5,"""Thoroughly ugly,"" I corrected with smile."
0.55,0.6,0.7,"""I can fix that."""
0.5,0.4175,0.5,She reached for another dial on the house controls.
0.5,0.5,0.65,"""I must."
0.4,0.65,0.6,"God knows what you might do to it next."""
0.5,0.375,0.375,"Cloudwood had been used in a Mediterranean manner, making the house seem primitive and civilized at the same time."
0.44999999999999996,0.55,0.5,"It was huge and inefficient, and she should never have spent so many pesos on a toy, but Papa would not let her return it."
0.8325,0.75,0.5825,"I'm in love."""
0.375,0.5,0.4375,My mindsmith is not so understanding.
0.5,0.4175,0.5825,"Why else would I come to you?"""
0.5,0.4,0.5,.
0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,0.5,"I say I do not care about law, I care about service and she should care about money."
0.5,0.4175,0.5825,"I dimly remember three bedpartners who were probably human, and one that I hope was delirium."
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.5,I keep evading the issue.
0.25,0.55,0.44999999999999996,To deal with the first: it hurts to remember.
0.6875,0.6875,0.5625,"If I am capable of love, I loved Tasha Cortez."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"As for the issue itself, I'm no longer sure what I want to record."
0.5,0.5,0.55,“can’t-miss”
0.5,0.4,0.5,Soon this wolf won’t be merely running in the snow.
0.5,0.5,0.6,“same-day airborne land-and-shoot”
0.44999999999999996,0.7,0.55,This wolf will be running for its life!
0.44999999999999996,0.6,0.5,"And they didn’t listen to the recommendations of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, which opposed this legislation!"
0.35,0.7,0.4,They are utterly out of step with their Alaska constituents ... the state agency that manages Alaska wildlife ... and the rest of the American public!
0.4175,0.6675,0.5825,"In the name of “wolf control,” wolf killers will predictably once again use aircraft to hunt wolves to the point of exhaustion, so that the wolves have, literally, no chance of survival."
0.4,0.4,0.55,"So if we don’t act right now, Alaska’s snowy tundras will once again become bloody killing fields for wolves in America’s “Last Frontier.”"
0.25,0.75,0.75,“NO”
0.4,0.55,0.55,Our well-funded opponents will spend whatever it takes to mislead and confuse voters about this ballot measure.
0.44999999999999996,0.55,0.55,And it will be a major setback for wolves nationwide — at a time when the American public overwhelmingly favors wolf reintroduction and protection.
0.5,0.5,0.5,"So, please don’t wait another minute."
0.5,0.375,0.5425,"$15,000 — election day “get-out-the-vote” drive, including phone calls to get voters to the polls."
0.5,0.5,0.625,“same-day airborne land-and-shoot.”
0.5,0.55,0.55,"Your special donation today is absolutely critical, because many of Alaska’s politicians clearly have anti-wolf agendas."
0.55,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,Let them know you share their concern about protecting Alaska’s wolves.
0.375,0.6875,0.6875,1. SIGN the enclosed Citizens’ Advisory Ballot to show your support for repealing “same-day airborne land-and-shoot” wolf killing in Alaska;
0.5825,0.5,0.6675,Thank you for your strong support.
0.625,0.375,0.5,"So, please sign the enclosed Citizens’ Advisory Ballot to lend your moral support to our Alaska friends and return it in the enclosed envelope with a special donation."
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.5,Time is so short.
0.55,0.6,0.55,"Someone will need to begin by creating an urban ""oasis"" that mitigates some of the fears that you had while driving through the city -- where to buy groceries, a place where you can feel safe on your own front porch, the freedom to sleep soundly without worrying about your copper wiring."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.55,3. For all that is wrong with Detroit -- and that's nearly everything -- you'd be astonished by the pride that Detroiters have for their city.
0.4,0.5,0.5,"Raggedy Anarchy 21. Sep, 2009 at 7:21 pm"
0.4,0.55,0.4,"I've never been there, but ever since that mad, possessed American History Professor I had, I've been haunted by Detroit."
0.55,0.44999999999999996,0.55,'America's least pretentious masterpiece'
0.55,0.55,0.55,"(Joyce Carol Oates in the NYTBR) When folks like Gertie Nevels, and Levon Helm and John Hiatt and my favorite, John Henry, left the mountains to go wrestle with the Industrial leviathan in Detroit, they were in it to the death."
0.55,0.5,0.55,Everybody wins.
0.55,0.55,0.44999999999999996,Is this the greatness they built on earth?
0.5,0.55,0.5,"This is the final phase, the crowning glory of America's greatness?"
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.5,Europe's follies?
0.09999999999999998,0.75,0.6,"Have we really built a ""Great Society"" or is that all propaganda -- Bull Shiite to hush free thought, eyes to the flag, while our pockets and resources were raided by shysters, spin-meisters, schmucks and banksters?"
0.5,0.6,0.5,"Do we still have fertile backyard gardens, filled with the composting of the age?"
0.4,0.55,0.44999999999999996,"Have the great fortunes earned in trust as ""American"" for American investment here in America, really migrated to the Beijing, Shanghai, and Hang-Seng markets, converted to safer ""Yuan"" and invested in China's wealth?"
0.4,0.6,0.44999999999999996,"Is Conscription just around the corner, to serve Halliburton(Dubai) in attaining pipeline clearance through Afghanistan, to Turkmenistan and the oil field there?"
0.44999999999999996,0.6,0.55,"Are we just mercenaries for big oil, not liberators spreading ""Freedom""?"
0.30000000000000004,0.8,0.7,I think not!
0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,0.4,"Why has the ""Rust Belt"" come into being?"
0.5,0.6,0.5,Japan?
0.30000000000000004,0.65,0.5,"As we sink into our own ruins, the dark horse rides on America!"
0.5,0.55,0.5,Green movement?
0.44999999999999996,0.55,0.6,"If you've got some fancy new technology at Boeing that can do more for people's health and happiness (and for less cost) than a victory garden can do, please let me know."
0.30000000000000004,0.6,0.55,"Last I checked, greed, sloth, hubris and waste were all pretty universally human traits, and I see no halos around either Libertarians, Dems or even anarchically green-at-heart."
0.30000000000000004,0.55,0.6,"I agree -- Democrats, like country music, have disappointed me too many times in the past for me to keep on listening."
0.35,0.6,0.55,But here's the thing -- frogs are mutating due to the planet trying to kill itself.
0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,0.55,The ones who are educated and informed and attached to delegating moral judgements will be perfectly equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Eric 01. Nov, 2009 at 10:33 pm"
0.65,0.55,0.55,"We could take that oil-stained soil and those rusted factories, and create something new and beautiful."
0.44999999999999996,0.7,0.55,The richest country in the world ... ?!
0.5,0.7,0.55,Don't forget about the back taxes!
0.7,0.5,0.5,I find this topic fascinating.
0.5,0.5,0.5,I was born in a suburb of Detroit and most of family still lives there.
0.5,0.55,0.55,"""Lumpy"""
0.65,0.4,0.5,Peace.
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Brad 14. Oct, 2010 at 7:02 pm"
0.5,0.5,0.5,"And so Quiet Earp and I did some research, and came up with a list of houses selling for under a grand."
0.4,0.55,0.5,"Detroit is a ghost town, and it's inhabited by ghosts: the only people left here are those who can't or won't leave."
0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,"The New York Times correspondent wrote that his friend Mitch's $1,900 home ""had already been stripped of its appliances and wiring ..."
0.5,0.6,0.55,As for the $100 house?
0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,0.65,No exceptions.
0.5,0.5,0.5,"On one corner, we saw a giant banner hung across a charred front porch."
0.5,0.6,0.6,"Truth is, any artist-type who moves into this part of Detroit is probably pretty handy with a pistol or a shotgun ."
0.5,0.55,0.5,"Anyone who takes this plunge is risking their life every day, betting on a future that may take a long time to arrive."
0.55,0.55,0.6,"Please track down and watch a movie called ""Detroit: A City to Yourself"", by Nicole MacDonald."
0.5,0.4,0.5,"It's full of this imagery, and talks about the 1805 fire and rebuilding, and the post-industrial devastation that's ravaged the city since."
0.35,0.55,0.44999999999999996,"Most poignantly, it talks about Hurricane Katrina, which focused attention on rebuilding another city with this level of devastation, and how without a single catastrophic event to blame for it, Detroit's decay has gone unsympathetically ignored."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"And about how, if you're a pheasant, that's not such a bad thing."
0.5,0.4,0.5,(west of Livernois around McNichols).
0.6,0.44999999999999996,0.6,"Next time you're in Detroit, please head over."
0.5,0.6,0.6,"Oh, and entry is free, so it's available to anyone regardless of economic status."
0.5,0.4,0.5,"You're liable to see families picnicking, bums gathering bottles and cans, geese foraging, and deer cautiously wandering the edge of the woods."
0.5,0.5,0.55,"There's a whole street being taken over by artists, Farnsworth between Moran and McDougall."
0.30000000000000004,0.5,0.44999999999999996,"A few weeks ago, someone broke into their shed to steal their garden tools."
0.30000000000000004,0.6,0.30000000000000004,"I've lived in the metro area my whole life, and there are areas (I can't call them neighborhoods) down there where I don't feel safe in daytime, much less at night."
0.75,0.55,0.5,Myself -- Thanks for the comment and the great information.
0.7,0.65,0.44999999999999996,You are exactly the kind of person who gives me back the hope I lost on my way into town.
0.6,0.65,0.55,I was intrigued.
0.44999999999999996,0.55,0.5,"See, there's a wee bit of loyalty to the Big 3 and driving a foreign car doesn't really scream ""solidarity"" to those struggling to survive."
0.44999999999999996,0.6,0.5,Really?
0.5,0.55,0.5,A $100 house?
0.4375,0.5,0.3125,I don't know.
0.5,0.5,0.5,"And the markers were carved later, not be whoever built it."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.55,I looked around.
0.30000000000000004,0.5,0.4,One thing this place didn't seem was safe.
0.5,0.5,0.5,He started walking down the steps and around a corner.
0.5,0.5,0.44999999999999996,Acres stood beside it and somehow using him as a yardstick for the scale of the thing made it easier to see.
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.5,Easter Island?
0.4175,0.75,0.5,It was all too much for me so I focused on the part I could handle.
0.5,0.5,0.5,You would end up on a small hill on Rapa Nui.
0.55,0.55,0.65,But I know how to make it take me anywhere.
0.55,0.55,0.55,He pulled a sheet of folded paper from his pocket and handed it to me.
0.5,0.5,0.5,"It read, ""Department of the Treasury, Financial Management Service, Status Report of U.S. Treasury-Owned Gold."""
0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,0.5,"He pointed to a row that read, ""Deep Storage: Fort Knox, KY."""
0.5,0.30000000000000004,0.55,They only check deep storage once a year.
0.55,0.65,0.5,He set the cup down and looked straight at me for the first time.
0.55,0.44999999999999996,0.5,"No, they would have been on Rapa Nui if they knew, ready to stop me."
0.44999999999999996,0.4,0.55,"Deep Storage: Fort Knox, Ky."
0.5,0.6675,0.5,I had never seen a dollar sign in front of that many number before.
0.44999999999999996,0.4,0.5,"I thought they didn't keep gold there anymore, just nerve gas."
0.44999999999999996,0.55,0.6,How much can we sell before someone becomes suspicious?
0.4375,0.375,0.625,I slipped the little pouch over my back and wiped the knife on his jacket.
0.4375,0.5,0.5,His mistake had been in telling me the same gesture opened the door the other way.
0.44999999999999996,0.55,0.44999999999999996,They never bothered trying to explain how Acres made it into the country without a ticket on a plane or a boat.
0.5,0.5,0.5,The prosecution liked the idea that Acres was my smuggler's mule.
0.5,0.5,0.55,"As I did, I noticed just how tired he looked around the eyes."
0.5,0.5,0.55,Hold it.
0.5,0.55,0.5,I looked around.
0.5,0.55,0.6,"Let's make real clear right now that you were joking, buddy."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.5,"He said he had a ""business proposition"" for me."
0.5,0.5,0.5,You were the first person who came to mind.
0.55,0.55,0.5,Four Hundred ounces for a start.
0.5,0.5,0.5,Four Hundred.
0.5,0.5,0.5,I pulled out my palm phone and looked up a number.
0.5,0.5,0.6,That's alot.
0.5,0.5,0.44999999999999996,He drained the last of his cup and tossed some bills on the table.
0.5,0.65,0.6,Let me show you something.
0.5,0.5,0.55,"Charles might not look like much, but I hadn't made it through my life taking that kind of chance."
0.5,0.55,0.6,I put away the cell and used the motion to cover checking the knife in my sleeve and used one leg to check the other in my sock.
0.5,0.5,0.375,"The little desk was covered with large books filled with sticky notes, a pile of folders and papers and a laptop computer plugged into the phone line."
0.44999999999999996,0.55,0.5,It was those clues that started all of this.
0.5,0.5,0.5,I didn't see much money in hieroglyphic porn.
0.5,0.5,0.44999999999999996,He pulled out a small leather diary and opened it to a yellowed page marked with yet another small sticky note.
0.35,0.65,0.44999999999999996,Or maybe this guy was just a wacko who wanted to take me out on a dark road and kill me.
0.5,0.5,0.5,It was dark as we left.
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.55,"We spent the next hour stomping around the hill while he said things like, ""it was right here."""
0.5,0.5,0.6,"""This is it,"" he leaned down and motioned for me to look at something on the ground."
0.5,0.55,0.5,"See how the lines form the pattern in the journal, the same one as the moai."
0.5,0.55,0.55,"I learned this from a skull shard rongorongo, they aren't all writing language."
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.55,Some are just a memory device.
0.5,0.4375,0.5625,They help in remembering steps in a ritual or ceremonial gestures.
0.65,0.55,0.44999999999999996,He smiled and I could see his teeth in the moonlight.
0.44999999999999996,0.55,0.35,I even swapped the two parts as he had asked.
0.55,0.5,0.55,I seemed to be somewhere in the middle -- there was as much above as below.
0.30000000000000004,0.6,0.5,I was in shock.
0.35,0.65,0.55,"and how can the state legislature single out two counties (first Napa, now Sonoma) for this treatment?"
0.5,0.4,0.4,JohnLopresti said...
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,"I had thought of the kiltman with respect to a new AVA in Yorkville highlands, thinking the Scot might have interest in playing the bagpipes in the uplands."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Then, at Steve's site there is an interesting discussion of his current ongoing efforts with blends from Carneros and Sonoma Coast."
0.5,0.4,0.5,"It's easy to get lost in nomenclatures, when one is striving for new concepts."
0.5,0.35,0.7,"But this prestige has nothing to due with the law that demands ""Napa Valley"", in addition to simply ""Rutherford"", be placed on these wines."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,"Tom, I would suggest that all Napa wineries, good and bad, benefit from having Napa Valley on the label; it is indeed a great example of marketing - what you describe as promotional effort."
0.55,0.55,0.55,"Sonoma County, with roughly half of the wineries of Napa County, wins roughly twice as many gold medals in national and international wine competitions."
0.625,0.5,0.5,"That, the fact that their wines cost less on average, and the wineries are friendlier, less snooty is a compelling story to get out to the public."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"There no evidence that grapes grown in ""Sonoma County"" have any single distinguishing feature derived from the fact that they were grown inside the borders of Sonoma County. Assemblywoman Evans concludes, ""By improving consumer education on each bottle, conjunctive labeling will unleash the full potential of our delicious wines to represent Sonoma around the world."
0.5625,0.4375,0.5625,People are receptive to it.
0.75,0.5825,0.5825,Selling the magic of Sonoma County wines is easy.
0.5,0.55,0.44999999999999996,She's correct.
0.6,0.6,0.55,"""This moment ...marks the beginning of a stronger Sonoma County brand for generations to come."""
0.5,0.4,0.5,"They point to the prestige that the ""Napa Valley"" designation carries."
0.5,0.55,0.55,"But this prestige has nothing to due with the law that demands ""Napa Valley"", in addition to simply ""Rutherford"", be placed on these wines."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Pushed as an effort to promote ""Sonoma County"" wines and a consumer education effort, the new law instead forces vintners to needlessly sully their package and undermines their own marketing efforts."
0.5,0.5,0.6,"Ask yourself...If putting the words ""Sonoma County"" on one's wines was such a great thing, why don't more vintners who make ""Dry Creek Valley"", ""Russian River Valley"", ""Alexander Valley"" or ""Sonoma Valley"" wines already put these words on their label?"
0.5,0.5,0.5,Eminent Domain Used To Usurp Wine Label Real Estate
0.75,0.65,0.5,I love it Tom.
0.65,0.6,0.5,You found a way to tie this in nicely.
0.4,0.5,0.55,"This is a case of over-reaching government regulation, costing business unnecessarily and burdening them with more regulations."
0.30000000000000004,0.65,0.55,"I'd be pissed that I'm forced now to put a place-name on my label that told my buyers nothing of real value about the wine behind my label and, in some cases, demonstrably lowered its perceived quality."
0.5,0.5,0.6,And so is every other producer I have discussed this issue with.
0.5,0.5,0.6,"I completely agree with you when you state: ""Such an association will not be made with 'Sonoma County' wines...ever."""
0.5,0.5,0.55,Duh.
0.5825,0.5,0.5825,I've got real skin in this game.
0.35,0.55,0.5,"We are going to have to totally redesign our front label to make room for ""Sonoma County"" - and so far every mock-up is cluttered and decreases the impact of our brand."
0.375,0.5625,0.5625,"Eminent domain is exactly right - this is nothing less than governmental ""taking."
0.44999999999999996,0.55,0.55,The legislators who backed this should be ashamed.
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.5,Hardy Wallace said...
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Sonoma county always was the sheep ranch joke in the era of Napa's well-deserved, early, global fame."
0.4175,0.5,0.5,I suppose the new law is all Sacramento hype.
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.5,But I think it will improve northcoast revenue and dignity.
0.55,0.55,0.5,"Now after several decades in Sonoma county I have learned to appreciate its uniqueness, for its viticulture and other industries."
0.65,0.44999999999999996,0.55,"The ambience in the town Sonoma is only an enclave; it is rightfully proud of its heritage as a village, and for its viticultural traditions."
0.5,0.4,0.5,Vive la nouveau Sonoma County.
0.44999999999999996,0.6,0.55,What do you make of the fact that vintners *already* are free to put Sonoma County on any label they want?
0.5,0.5,0.5,"These past few years, 'eminent domain' has become a libertarian property rights flashpoint, since the Kelo v New London, CT, case concerning urban renewal polemics."
0.44999999999999996,0.4,0.55,The links for @2:04:
0.4,0.55,0.44999999999999996,"I was disappointed, though not surprised, to see that today a conjunctive labeling law dictating that ""Sonoma County"" be placed on every label on wines produced from grapes grown in Sonoma County was unanimously passed by the California Legislature ."
0.65,0.55,0.5,"I enjoyed reading your post. July 17, 2010 at 12:35 PM"
0.55,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,JohnLopresti said... Thought I would post a link with a cute title related to the post.
0.5,0.4,0.55,http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202463630848&Alcohol_bill_means_happy_hour_for_lobbyists
0.5,0.5,0.5,Tom said... Seems like some old geezers are filling their pockets with some major greenbacks getting this bill passed through.
0.4,0.44999999999999996,0.5,"Dont even get me started on the still enacted Blue Laws of this state (cant buy liqour on Sundays)... July 19, 2010 at 09:12 AM"
0.65,0.65,0.6,r said... Wow!
0.4375,0.4375,0.5625,It sounds like you would prefer you government welfare to go there instead?
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.5,They do not operate monopolies.
0.55,0.44999999999999996,0.55,alean said... wine facts are really good http://www.facts-about-wine.info/
0.55,0.55,0.55,I like such topics and anything that is connected to this matter.
0.4175,0.5825,0.5,"""Unfortunately the effective state-based regulatory system in the U.S. is under attack."
0.5,0.5,0.5,The only challenges to the state-based alcohol regulatory system are those that discriminate against interstate commerce for protectionist reasons.
0.44999999999999996,0.4,0.55,"Even in the wake of successful suits that challenged the protectionist laws that wholesalers originally pushed, the state retained extraordinarily broad authority to maintain a robust system of alcohol controls."
0.5,0.4,0.55,"ON THE ""LEARN MORE"" PAGE ( http://www.hr5034.org/learn-more ) ""Litigation against the states brought by those wishing to deregulate alcohol for their own economic interests is of great concern to state alcohol regulators, state attorneys general, public health advocates and many others."""
0.44999999999999996,0.55,0.55,"""Litigation against the states brought by those wishing to deregulate alcohol for their own economic interests is of great concern to state alcohol regulators, state attorneys general, public health advocates and many others."""
0.5,0.5625,0.5625,The bill does PROTECT a state’s wine shipping law if someone were to challenge it in court by providing the shipping law with the same presumption of validity granted other state alcohol laws.
0.4375,0.5,0.625,"""Disingenuous in the extreme."
0.5,0.5,0.6,"It's no coincidence that brewers large and small, wineries, spirit producers and importers, retailers, wine education organizations, wine consumers and free trade organizations all oppose H.R. 5034."
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.5,It overrides it entirely.
0.5,0.5,0.5,"""not withstanding that the state or territorial law may burden interstate commerce or an act of congress, the state law shall be upheld..."""
0.4,0.5,0.55,"""does not amend"""
0.5,0.5,0.55,"It's like saying ""i didn't kick the dog, but rather his ribs fell on to my boot""."
0.6,0.65,0.55,"Language that bars facial discrimination is included in the bill to codify this prohibition"" I have great faith in the wholesalers' ability to mislead."
0.55,0.55,0.5,But this goes beyond even my expectation.
0.5,0.4175,0.5,Heald supreme court decision that did away with protectionist state alcohol laws.
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.6,"Read for yourself: ""state or territorial regulations may not facially discriminate, without justification, against out-of-state producers of alcoholic beverages in favor of in-state producers."""
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.5,"""justifications"""
0.5,0.4,0.44999999999999996,"""structure of the state alcoholic beverage distribution system."""
0.4,0.55,0.44999999999999996,"in other words, discrimination is ok as long as the discrimination is written into the state's alcohol beverage distribution laws."
0.5,0.5625,0.75,"""Unelected judges should not set alcohol policy; this responsibility rightly rests with individual state legislatures, as guaranteed under the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution."""
0.44999999999999996,0.35,0.55,Judges never have set policy.
0.5,0.5,0.5,State legislatures always have.
0.5,0.6,0.44999999999999996,This is the big lie the wholesalers tell.
0.5,0.4,0.4,"After that, the state legislatures, in every state where litigation has affected badly crafted laws, went about legislating a fix."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,We have courts precisely to adjudicate concerns with the fairness and constitutionality of state laws.
0.375,0.375,0.5,We receive no government funding.
0.5825,0.5,0.5,I hope the Foundation can count on your caring donation today.
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0.55,0.65,0.55,Thus originated Las Vegas’s reputation as an adult theme park.
0.5,0.4375,0.5625,"The areas surrounding the springs were desert oases: sprawling collections of grasses, trees, and wildlife."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"The El Rancho Vegas (1941) was the first, followed by the Last Frontier (1943)."
0.5,0.5,0.55,"For about 4000 years, the Archaics thrived in a culture that included many signs of early civilization."
0.5,0.5,0.5625,"There was no longer any question: when you wanted some unbridled adult fun, Las Vegas was the place to be."
0.5,0.55,0.55,"Though Las Vegas had developed a powerful local economy, few major outside investments were made in the city, due primarily to mob infiltration and its inherent ties to illegal activities."
0.5,0.5,0.55,"Signs of even more advancement appeared halfway through the first millennium a.d. , when the Anasazi Indians inhabited the valley."
0.5,0.5,0.5,That would change dramatically with the 1966 arrival of billionaire Howard Hughes.
0.5,0.4375,0.5625,"When it was over, Hughes owned six casinos, an airport, and an airline, along with numerous plots of land stretching from the Strip to the mountains."
0.5,0.5,0.5825,"Far more progressive than the Archaics, the Anasazi utilized such formal agricultural techniques as irrigation to assist their harvest."
0.5,0.5,0.5,Casino operators had to reassess the nature of their business.
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.5,"Wynn’s demolition of the existing properties started a trend that, more than any other, describes Las Vegas at the end of the 20th century: removal of old properties in exchange for the potential of new ones."
0.5,0.375,0.5,"This trend has led to many more demolitions, including the Dunes (replaced by Bellagio), Aladdin (the new Aladdin) and Sands (Venetian) hotels."
0.5,0.55,0.6,"They can no longer be just a box filled with gaming tables, restaurants, and a showroom."
0.55,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,"New resorts offer attractions and amenities modeled after those available in top resort cities worldwide, including luxurious spas, signature restaurants, and exclusive boutiques."
0.65,0.65,0.55,"With its new look and new aim, the prospects are good despite the warnings."
0.5,0.4175,0.5425,"During this period, the indigenous people lived in caves, hunting the mammals that gathered at the shoreline."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"It was not until 1829 that Rafael Rivera, a Mexican scout, found a spring-fed valley and dubbed it Las Vegas — a Spanish name that leaves many modern visitors wondering exactly where “the meadows” really lay."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"In 1844, American explorer John C. Fremont parked his horses at Big Springs, and his report to the government resulted in a mail route leading past the spot on its way to California."
0.5,0.5,0.55,This put Las Vegas on the map and was one of the crucial turning points of its history.
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Surrounded by acres of farmland hewn from the hard desert, the adobe fort became a focal point for the development of Las Vegas for the next fifty years."
0.5,0.5,0.44999999999999996,The landscape of the valley changed dramatically over the next 200 centuries.
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,"Despite the fact that the local land was rich in silver, by 1865 most of the mining traffic through Las Vegas was of prospectors headed to California or Northern Nevada in search of gold."
0.5,0.4375,0.5625,"Bestowed with plenty of the invaluable pioneer spirit that characterizes Las Vegas to this day, Gass redirected his life by picking up where the Mormons left off — at least when it came to ranching and farming."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Gass took over the abandoned Mormon fort and 640 acres (260 hectares) surrounding it, dubbing it the Las Vegas Ranch."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.55,"Despite his ambition, Gass’ success was short-lived."
0.5825,0.5,0.5,"Through 1905, Helen Stewart expanded the ranch to 2000 acres (810 hectares), making quite a bit of money in the process."
0.5,0.55,0.55,Early Habitation
0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,0.5,"When it did, the Las Vegas Valley (which at the time had a non-native population of less than 30) would change as well."
0.5,0.4,0.44999999999999996,"For all this, the railroad needed land."
0.5,0.5,0.55,Stewart sold 99.5 percent of her ranch to the railroad.
0.5,0.4375,0.5625,"Standing at the depot at Main and Fremont streets, railroad officials auctioned 1200 lots they had subdivided from forty square blocks of desert scrub."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.5,"Construction on Hoover Dam (originally Boulder Dam, subsequently renamed for the president who authorized the project) began in 1931 in a canyon 45 miles (72 km) southeast of Las Vegas."
0.5,0.4375,0.5625,These springs fed a network of streams draining through the Las Vegas Wash to the Colorado River.
0.6875,0.625,0.6875,"Not only did it create jobs, but it also created Lake Mead, the massive reservoir that today provides water to all of southern Nevada."
0.55,0.6,0.55,"The state legislature helped as well, by legalizing gambling in 1931 and thus solidifying the future of the town, though legislators and residents could never have known this at the time."
0.5,0.55,0.55,"Strangely enough, the study also included pairs of biological brothers that were not twins, and out of the 142 homosexual males studied, only 14, or about 9 %, had homosexual brothers, which is approximately the normal statistical incidence of homosexuality in the general population (Bailey & Pillard)."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"The only difference between homosexuals and heterosexuals is that while heterosexuals are attracted to members of the opposite sex, homosexuals are attracted to those of the same sex."
0.5,0.4175,0.4175,"Therefore, neither homosexuals nor heterosexuals really have a “choice” in the matter, and asking a homosexual “Why are you attracted to other members of your sex” is likened to asking a heterosexual “Why are you attracted to members of the opposite sex?”"
0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,0.6,"After all, why would anyone choose such a difficult lifestyle?"
0.5,0.4,0.44999999999999996,"Rather, the only actual choice is whether or not to be open with one’s sexuality and sexual preference; whether to act on one’s sexual desires, whether to tell others about such feelings, or whether to live a whole life as a lie and suppress these attractions (Marcus 9)."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,"To supplement my findings from research, I have conducted personal interviews with two adolescent homosexual males, James Dobbens and Daniel Woods."
0.55,0.5,0.55,(Dobbens).
0.5,0.35,0.44999999999999996,Dobbens believes that he was born homosexual.
0.5,0.55,0.5,"When discussing the role of parents and upbringing in a child’s sexuality, he commented “They can bring you up [to be] open minded to [homosexuality], but they don’t bring you up [to be a homosexual]… I grew up in a place where [homosexuality is accepted], so that’s why I’m so open about being gay; I accept myself… [Whether or not you accept homosexuality and can be honest with yourself if you are homosexual] depends on how you’re brought up” (Dobbens)."
0.5,0.5,0.5,“boyhood”
0.5425,0.4575,0.5825,I’ve always been attracted to guys” (Woods).
0.5,0.5,0.4,"“It’s like race. It’s all something you can’t help; it all comes to you… It’s internal, you can’t help it”"
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,"Furthermore, there were many occurrences of homosexual behavior in Greek mythology; Hercules is rumored to have had 14 male lovers, and Zeus himself partook in such behavior."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"According to Darwin’s theory of natural selection, the advantageous traits are passed on, while the disadvantageous ones eventually die out."
0.55,0.55,0.5,"Because consequently heterosexual men contribute five times as much genetic information to the next the gene pool, if homosexuality was indeed caused by a gene, it would have died out entirely by now, or at least been reduced immensely in the number of occurrences."
0.5,0.5,0.55,My findings throughout my research have led me to conclude that there is no definitive answer on what causes homosexuality.
0.55,0.30000000000000004,0.5,Works Cited
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Some would say it is a gene, passed on from parents to child."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,"Fulkerson, Richard. Nature and Nurture. 15 Dec. 1999. Iowa State University. <http://www.public.iastate.edu>."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Homosexuality. Ed. William Dudley. San Diego: Greenhaven P, 1993."
0.5,0.55,0.5,"But it was not until 1869 that the term “homosexual” was first used, to describe “a man or woman whose feelings of sexual attraction are for someone of the same sex” (Marcus 1)."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,“a man or woman whose feelings of sexual attraction are for someone of the same sex”
0.4,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,"At this point in time, Karl Maria Kertbeny used the word in a pamphlet which fought to repeal the current antihomosexual laws of Prussia."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.5,“same”
0.5,0.5,0.6,The debate over homosexuality has been one of the most long-lasting and controversial ones ever.
0.5,0.5,0.5,"The first, Vindex, defended Urnings, while the second, Inclusa, which followed shortly after, described the first scientific theory of homoerotic desire."
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.55,"No one knows for sure, and it is possible no one ever will, but that surely does not stop everyone from coming up with their own theories and beliefs on the matter."
0.5,0.5,0.625,"In an interview in 1903, he professed his beliefs: “I am… of the firm conviction that homosexuals must not be treated as sick people… Homosexual persons are not sick."
0.5,0.5,0.5,“Letter to an American Mother”
0.55,0.44999999999999996,0.5,"“Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as an illness… Many highly respectable individuals of ancient and modern times have been homosexuals”"
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,"However, the general public of the 1800s and early 1900s, including the medical professionals, regarded homosexuality as a curable mental illness."
0.5,0.4375,0.5625,"Dr. Evelyn Hooker, a heterosexual psychologist, conducted a ground-breaking study in the mid 1950s that went along similar reasoning as Freud."
0.5,0.5,0.44999999999999996,"In this courageous experiment, Hooker compared the psychological profiles of sixty men, half homosexual and half heterosexual."
0.5,0.6,0.6,"Fortunately, many prominent psychiatrists also believed that homosexuality was not an illness, and their lobbying, along with the innovative study performed by Hooker, who has been referred to as “the Rosa Parks of the gay movement” convinced the American Psychiatric Association Board of Trustees to vote to remove homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual as a mental illness in December of 1973."
0.5625,0.625,0.375,"Just over a year later, the American Psychological Association also removed homosexuality from their list of mental illnesses (Marcus 11)."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,"It stated, rather that homosexuality was merely a difference in the opinion and values of the common person, but must still be respected as an individual orientation, and thus treated as one (Resolution on Appropriate Therapeutic Responses to Sexual Orientation)."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"In total, 110 pairs of twins (identical and fraternal) and 142 sets of male and their adopted brothers were studied, where at least one of the two had been classified as homosexual, either by self-identification or other means."
0.5425,0.6675,0.5425,"“Those who are halves of a man whole pursue males, and being slices, so to speak, of the male, love men throughout their boyhood, and take pleasure in physical contact with men”"
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.55,"I didn't bother trying to seek out a different group of potentially more interesting people, though."
0.5,0.4,0.4,"If the barkeep was any indication, I suspected similarly high-class robots fulfilled other positions on the ship."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.4,I slowly returned my attention to the conversation and was pleasantly surprised to find that it had turned to a heated analysis of a recent abstract film—done in the style of old flatscreen movies—that I had seen during off-time at Geminia Station.
0.6675,0.5,0.5825,"It was nice, I decided."
0.5,0.55,0.44999999999999996,"Did it truly matter what the ship's origin was and why Jefferson had saved me, if now, I was content?"
0.5,0.5,0.5,Fact: It's easy to fall into patterns.
0.5,0.5,0.5625,"I would join the rest of the ship for meals, and I would take my turn in the weight room."
0.5,0.5,0.5,Give or take.
0.5,0.4575,0.5,"Bereft of my previous familiar life, I latched onto Kishori and Ray and Zheng, and Sarah with Alexis dragged along on her arm now and then (he was mostly her favorite dancing partner; she confided to us one night that his conversational skills left something to be desired)."
0.625,0.5,0.5625,"I smothered thoughts of friends back on Earth—this was my long-awaited vacation, my clean break and my temporary retreat; I'd try contacting those friends tomorrow."
0.375,0.5,0.5,But I wasn't sure I wanted the dream stage to end.
0.4175,0.4175,0.5425,"Days passed, weeks passed, but I couldn't tell if it had been months or years since I was rescued."
0.65,0.65,0.55,"One of these evenings, we were gathered in the South Ballroom for post-dinner drinks, lounging on couches and watching other members of our populace move in circles on the dance floor."
0.25,0.65,0.4,My first thought: I was going crazy.
0.5,0.5,0.55,"Regardless, when Adrienne asked what the ship's purpose was, we all gave it a measure of thought."
0.4,0.5,0.44999999999999996,"“Maybe the universe will end sooner than you think,”"
0.4,0.6,0.55,"“Maybe the universe will end sooner than you think,” said Jefferson."
0.5625,0.5,0.5,"“Maybe we'll travel at the speed of light and we won't age,”"
0.5825,0.5825,0.5425,"Tiffany, she nodded eagerly."
0.44999999999999996,0.7,0.44999999999999996,"“Also impossible. Even if we were traveling at ninety-nine percent of the speed of light—that's assuming you ignore science and pretend that such a thing is possible, because it isn't—we'd still age. We'd just appear to age slower than people not traveling as fast as us.”"
0.5,0.5,0.6675,We'd just appear to age slower than people not traveling as fast as us.”
0.5,0.5,0.5,“And?”
0.5,0.5,0.5,Give our ancestors purpose.
0.5,0.375,0.375,Keep their dreams alive.”
0.4,0.5,0.5,“No one's immortal.
0.4,0.55,0.4,"“No one's immortal. In fact, the opposite: We're all going to die.”"
0.5,0.4175,0.5,"“Smuggling,” responded Kishori."
0.65,0.5,0.55,"Jefferson snorted, amused."
0.30000000000000004,0.55,0.5,“Renegade smugglers.
0.5,0.5,0.55,Jefferson shook his head and stood up.
0.6,0.6,0.55,A chorus of good nights followed him out the door.
0.4,0.55,0.55,“And I don't mean that you disgust me.
0.4175,0.6675,0.75,"“And I don't mean that you disgust me. No, we're the start of a rebellion. Did you hear what the captain said earlier? He means, we're going to change the future. The universe as we know it won't be the same.”"
0.5,0.5,0.5,Zheng shook his head.
0.55,0.5,0.44999999999999996,He has inside intelligence—how else would he know where to find us?
0.5,0.5,0.4375,He knows about us.”
0.5,0.625,0.625,“Inside intelligence?
0.6,0.6,0.6,"“I still like my idea,”"
0.35,0.5,0.44999999999999996,Jefferson didn't share how he found people.
0.6675,0.5825,0.6675,"“We're going to mean something,”"
0.55,0.55,0.55,"“What we do, rebelling against the oppression of the many governments that oppose us, we're going to leave a legacy.”"
0.6,0.55,0.6,"Enthusiastic, even."
0.4,0.6,0.65,“You've got it all wrong.”
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.55,"He looked from Sarah, to Adrienne, to Zheng, to Kishori and Tiffany, to me."
0.30000000000000004,0.5,0.55,We aren't giving anyone purpose.
0.35,0.5,0.44999999999999996,We aren't special.”
0.35,0.65,0.5,"“Again, bleak,”"
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.5,"“Again, bleak,” commented Zheng."
0.5,0.4175,0.4175,"She leaned forward, setting her elbows on the foot stool in front of her."
0.4375,0.5,0.4375,"“You never know when it will end,”"
0.44999999999999996,0.55,0.44999999999999996,"“You can try to hold on,” said Ray."
0.5,0.5,0.55,"Repeat stories to yourself in the artificial night, sketch faces in your mind."
0.4,0.5,0.5,"But words, if you repeat them enough times, lose their meaning."
0.55,0.4,0.6,Emily emily em-ill-ee em-i-lee eh-mill-ee eh-mih-lee.
0.4,0.4,0.5,"Repeat it enough times, it's just a sound."
0.55,0.44999999999999996,0.55,"“If we last forever, if our eyes are the last eyes watching as the stars blink out, it won't mean a thing to us. We won't care that we're last and we won't care that there are no more stars. We aren't angels. We're just dumb and lucky.”"
0.5,0.5,0.55,"“Struck a nerve, huh?”"
0.5,0.3325,0.4175,“How long ago was that?”
0.5,0.375,0.5,"“I don't know,” he said."
0.5,0.5625,0.5,“Why don't you know for sure?”
0.5,0.4175,0.5,she asked.
0.44999999999999996,0.55,0.44999999999999996,"“The ship I was on, I guess that's what happened, too. Some vital part broke, and... well, boom. It was all so fast.”"
0.5,0.5,0.6,"She took a sip of her drink, plain water because, she had explained earlier, she had never liked the taste of alcohol, then fixed her gaze on me."
0.25,0.5625,0.3125,Fact: Adrienne intimidated me.
0.5,0.4,0.44999999999999996,Fact: It's too easy to fall into patterns.
0.4,0.4,0.5,"“Now that you mention it, I haven't seen Alexis in days."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.5,"After the first whoosh of the air being sucked away, there was lightning, but no thunder."
0.5,0.5,0.5,Kishori nodded in agreement.
0.44999999999999996,0.4,0.6,"“Keep adding people long enough, regardless, you get more overall."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"“Keep adding people long enough, regardless, you get more overall. A couple people staying in their rooms, even if you switch out the people, won't make a difference.”"
0.5,0.4,0.5,"He dropped the pecans back into the dish, one by one."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.5,"“Of course we notice. But... well, no one important ever disappears, so it doesn't really matter, does it.”"
0.5,0.5,0.5,No one offered a different answer.
0.5,0.55,0.5,Fact: Some places are timeless.
0.3325,0.75,0.5825,“I don't want to be here forever.”
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,“Remember?
0.5,0.5,0.55,"“Disappeared,” I corrected her."
0.5,0.4,0.5,“We don't know how or why he left. Or where he went.”
0.5,0.5,0.5,"The ship, it was odd and old, either so outdated or so heavily modified that I couldn't tell what make it was, and somehow, the crew standing around me fit the same description, a singularly atypical amalgamation of folk."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.55,he asked.
0.5625,0.625,0.75,I spoke up.
0.6,0.55,0.55,"“Yes,” I said."
0.44999999999999996,0.55,0.5,"I sat sideways in the armchair, feet dangling over one arm, neck resting against the other, absently tracing invisible lines between the stars outside my window as I ruminated on the situation."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,"I inspected the arrays of entertainment options—abstract, old-style flatscreens, engrossing VR flicks and action games, a selection of quondam bestsellers and a few recently released novels hoping to gain popularity."
0.55,0.44999999999999996,0.55,"There was a schedule advertising upcoming on-ship events, such as dance classes, craft sessions, and discussion groups, and a list of dinner invitations for me to respond to."
0.5,0.6,0.55,"Furniture (dark wood, expensive, polished, no secret compartments), clothes, leftover tray of half-consumed food from the previous day's lunch, toiletries (complete with miniature bottles of sweet-smelling apricot honey lotion), lightscreen, me."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.4,"And me, I guess I was one more piece in their puzzle."
0.4375,0.375,0.5625,I didn't want to think about disappearances and time and purposes and consequences.
0.5,0.6,0.55,I wanted my contentment back.
0.55,0.55,0.65,My other hand pointedly steered Adrienne to a small table against a wall.
0.5425,0.5,0.5825,"She glared at me, but obediently let me pull her along."
0.4175,0.5,0.4175,"I was one more scrap to weld onto the rest, one more stranded survivor who was found."
0.44999999999999996,0.55,0.55,"“Tell me,” I said, after we sat, “what you have found.”"
0.3325,0.5825,0.4175,"She gave me a grumpy look that informed me, quite clearly, of her current opinion of me."
0.2,0.6,0.5,“Not if you're going to be rude about it.”
0.5825,0.5,0.6675,"I wasn't, not really, but I'd lie to get the conversation going."
0.5,0.55,0.65,“I want to know.”
0.4,0.5,0.44999999999999996,"“I don't know much,”"
0.5,0.5,0.44999999999999996,"She reviewed the information gleaned from our previous dinner conversations, adding, “I heard the captain say something yesterday, as I walking to the Pyrope Parlor."
0.4175,0.5,0.5,"I was just coming up on a corner and he was around the other side, talking to a couple people, and they must not have known I was there."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"The next time the captain stopped by our group, Tiffany tagging along (pretending that she, too, was a social butterfly who could mingle equally well with everyone), we were ready."
0.5825,0.5825,0.5825,I was now one of them.
0.5,0.5,0.5825,"“Down past the Emerald Lounge, second door on the left. All hours.”"
0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,Medical AI were even more expensive than the barkeep.
0.5,0.55,0.44999999999999996,Had anyone on the ship ever fallen seriously ill?
0.5,0.35,0.5,>Hotel California
0.3325,0.75,0.6675,"“No,” said Adrienne."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"“She doesn't drink, remember?”"
0.4,0.6,0.55,"“Maybe that's the problem,”"
0.625,0.5,0.5425,"Well, we've got the perfect-size group right here.”"
0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,0.5,Just enough for us all to be able to barely avoid killing each other.
0.5,0.5,0.5,Adrienne asked.
0.5,0.4,0.65,"“That's survival, ”"
0.25,0.7,0.6,“Do you want to be stuck here for the rest of your life?”
0.65,0.5,0.5,"I shifted my feet in the plush green carpeting of the Emerald Lounge, looking out the windows at the stars."
0.5,0.5,0.5625,"The stillness of the room contributed, as did the view."
0.5,0.4,0.55,That was tonight's melodramatic theme: the ephemeral nature of life.
0.3325,0.6675,0.3325,"Eyes bulging in panic, but no screams."
0.5,0.4,0.6,This is our Hotel California.
0.5,0.5,0.55,He made this ship—this life—a constant.
0.44999999999999996,0.4,0.55,The one thing that wouldn't change.
0.5,0.375,0.375,"And all of us, we were permanent characters in each others' stories."
0.55,0.5,0.44999999999999996,Maybe that made us more real.
0.5,0.55,0.5,You do this a lot?”
0.4,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,"All these things I do, they're just to pass the time until I die.”"
0.4,0.4,0.6,"“You don't see a meaning because there is no meaning,”"
0.5625,0.5,0.4375,"“Look what I found,”"
0.5,0.30000000000000004,0.5,Fact: Sound is a vibration.
0.5,0.55,0.55,"The last thing I remember, I was tearing down the corridors."
0.5,0.55,0.6,"In case of emergency, break glass."
0.44999999999999996,0.55,0.55,"I'd put on a space suit, I'd get out of this ship, I'd find civilization again."
0.4,0.55,0.55,“What about my crewmates? Why didn't you save them?”
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.55,A planet.
0.44999999999999996,0.55,0.55,Any place but this place.
0.30000000000000004,0.6,0.55,"As much as Jesse had irritated me, I didn't like the picture my brain drew of him floating in his grave, body swollen and bloated."
0.5,0.4,0.55,“You fit the bill.
0.375,0.5,0.5,They didn't.”
0.55,0.55,0.4,"“Come on,” she said, before I could say anything else, “let's get you settled in.”"
0.55,0.30000000000000004,0.55,"The ship had all the usual accoutrements (artificial gravity, tastefully painted walls, sound dampeners to keep the noise of the engines from driving the crew batshit insane, recycled air systems), and a few less-usual: lush carpeting, lighting that was decorative as well as functional, spacious corridors."
0.65,0.6,0.5,This was heaven.
0.5,0.5,0.5,"“No, I meant, where's the ship going?"
0.5,0.55,0.5,"“No, I meant, where's the ship going? What's our destination?”"
0.75,0.6,0.5,"“Honey,” she said, “You're going to be delighted."
0.25,0.65,0.30000000000000004,"I died in those last moments, suffocating on my own exhaled breath, and this, this was my reward."
0.55,0.55,0.55,"It took me a couple days to realize I was, in fact, still alive."
0.25,0.6,0.5,I've heard there are a number of stages of grief and shock; I guess I was working my way through them.
0.25,0.7,0.6,It was time to find out what hell looked like.
0.5,0.55,0.55,"Fact: If, before all the air is sucked out of the ship, a person is so lucky to have stuffed him or herself into a space suit, that person has less than twenty-four hours to live."
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.55,I decided it couldn't have been.
0.5,0.5,0.5625,"I'm Sarah, and this is Alexis—you must be the new pickup.”"
0.35,0.44999999999999996,0.4,"I looked longingly at the slices of cheddar olive bread as she whisked me over to the bar, but didn't protest."
0.5,0.5,0.6,No one minded; Sarah's inner circle was content to fill our circle of couches with plenty of chatter.
0.5,0.35,0.55,"After the first half-hour, I stopped expending effort to keep names and stories and gossip straight."
0.6,0.6,0.55,Google TGI Friday's Fan Woody and it looks pretty good.
0.6,0.75,0.65,"Now, let's take a look at what the Friday's FanWoody Facebook page looks like today: Whoops!"
0.5,0.4,0.5,"Apparently Woody and his 900,000+ fans went poof ."
0.4375,0.5625,0.5625,"Then in the case of TGI Friday's or other brands that offer free product or discount coupons, you are essentially buying them again."
0.5,0.5,0.5,I think when used properly they can be terrific.
0.6,0.55,0.55,About time there was some acknowledgement of the true value of fans.
0.4575,0.4575,0.5425,Even if you have 3 million+ fans and they are all well behaved citizens what is the real marketing value?
0.7,0.65,0.5,"Sure, it's great having several hundred thousands fans."
0.25,0.55,0.44999999999999996,Take a look at the Facebook Fan Pages of some brands and what you see is not a pretty picture.
0.5,0.375,0.5825,Get Flash Player from Adobe.
0.55,0.6,0.6,Remember that ad?
0.5,0.4175,0.5425,I think an appropriate comparison might be Alex Rodriguez.
0.6,0.5,0.6,Make sure it's clear that the team comes first and that he's looking forward to being part of the team.
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Update:  Lebron chooses the Miami Heat and the similarities to A-Rod continue, with Dwyane Wade playing the role of Derek Jeter."
0.5,0.5,0.5,Update 2: And so it begins...
0.55,0.6,0.55,"He's a free agent now and tonight he made his decision about which team he's going to play for in a very public manner, with a live announcement on ESPN."
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0.4375,0.5625,0.4375,"But while our programs and activities have been successful in reducing animal cruelty, we are constantly faced with new problems of animal suffering which need immediate attention and drain our resources."
0.5,0.375,0.375,And that’s where you can help.
0.5,0.5,0.5425,"Today, we are placing special emphasis on pet adoption."
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0.4175,0.4175,0.5825,P.S. We are totally committed to putting an end to all forms of animal cruelty and neglect.
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0.5,0.625,0.625,Dear Ms. LastName I wanted to personally write you and give you our 2001 Collectible Calendar and talk about animals in danger - a cause we both care deeply about.
0.375,0.5,0.5425,"Too, too often, man has not been a good neighbor to animals."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Whether we talk about clubbing baby seals to death for their beautiful pelts, or butchering elephants with hacksaws for their ivory, or trapping animals in steel-jaw leghold traps where the pain is so excruciating they have been known to chew off a leg to escape, we stand guard for all animals."
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0.5,0.4,0.5,This new program will be a huge success with your help.
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0.6,0.5,0.44999999999999996,Your donation today could save a life tomorrow
0.30000000000000004,0.55,0.44999999999999996,Can you imagine the lion on our calendar cover being cruelly killed for a hunter’s trophy?
0.5,0.5,0.5,Prosperity has brought with it a new emphasis on historic preservation.
0.5,0.5,0.5,Dublin excels in packaging its past for the visitor.
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.55,"You can view artifacts from the Bronze Age, trace the history of the Easter Rising, or revisit Leopold Bloom’s odyssey in Ulysses."
0.55,0.6,0.5,The River Liffey flows from west to east through the center of the city to Dublin Bay.
0.5,0.4375,0.5625,"“ I never go north of the Liffey,”"
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,"Farther out, both north and south, are the sweeping curves of the Royal and Grand Canals."
0.5625,0.5625,0.5,"The occasional cry of gulls and unexpected distant vistas will remind you that Dublin is by the sea, and the Wicklow mountains, which hold Dublin closely to the coast, are visible from everywhere."
0.5825,0.4175,0.5825,"Dublin is an intimate city, physically small but tightly packed, a perfect place for walking."
0.5,0.4,0.5,"O’Connell Street, the city’s grand boulevard, leads north to Parnell Square."
0.5425,0.4175,0.5,"Along the Liffey to the west is Temple Bar, center of nightlife and home to many of Dublin’s cutting-edge artists and artistic endeavors."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.5,Up the hill from Temple Bar are Dublin Castle and Christ Church Cathedral.
0.5,0.5625,0.5625,"The climate here can best be described as “changeable” and yet the sudden shifts from light to dark, sunshine to shower, are part of the city’s magic."
0.65,0.65,0.6,At night the streets are crowded with people bent on having a good time.
0.5,0.5,0.5,The city’s impact on the rock and pop music scene with the likes of U2 and Bob Geldof is well known — there’s even a self-guided tour of their haunts.
0.65,0.44999999999999996,0.5,"And in this city, where literature and theater have historically dominated the scene, visual arts are finally coming into their own with the new Museum of Modern Art and the many galleries that display the work of modern Irish artists."
0.5,0.4175,0.5,"And while multinational chains have made inroads, they seem less blatant here than elsewhere."
0.55,0.44999999999999996,0.4,"As capital of Europe’s most explosive economy, Dublin seems to be changing before your very eyes."
0.5825,0.5825,0.5825,"On the coast, Sandymount, Dollymount, and Killiney strands are the places to go."
0.55,0.5,0.5,"The beautiful Wicklow Mountains, and the Wicklow Mountains National Park provide a more rugged countryside, and the area has breathtaking houses and gardens such as Castletown, Mount Usher, and Powerscourt."
0.5,0.5,0.5,The DART (Dublin Area Rapid Transit) runs north and south along the coast.
0.44999999999999996,0.4,0.55,Dublin is a young city.
0.55,0.55,0.55,"The universities attract students from all over the world, and this influx helps to make Dublin a busy, buzzing international city."
0.75,0.625,0.625,"However, young and old, stranger and Dubliner rub shoulders quite happily."
0.5,0.5,0.5,Religion and respect for parents has not yet gone out of fashion.
0.55,0.5,0.4,Unemployment is at an all-time low.
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Hong Kong has long been China’s handiest window on the West, and the city is unrivaled in its commercial know-how and managerial expertise."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,The impression of the visitor today will be that very little has changed.
0.5,0.5,0.5,The British population has decreased; today there are as many American and Australian ex-pats as there are British.
0.55,0.30000000000000004,0.55,"To alleviate the problem, the government has become the city’s major landlord with the construction of massive apartment blocks that, though they have every modern facility, average only 9 square m (100 square ft) in size."
0.44999999999999996,0.55,0.5,"Whole cities have been created in the New Territories, although the unimaginative architecture of these towns has been criticized."
0.55,0.55,0.55,"The Chinese people have been described as hardworking and pragmatic, attitudes that have contributed to Hong Kong’s success."
0.6,0.44999999999999996,0.5,"There are many stories of refugees who arrived with nothing in their pockets, set up a small sidewalk stall, worked diligently until they had their own store, and then expanded it into a modest chain."
0.5,0.375,0.4575,"Old customs are still followed: Fate and luck are taken very seriously, and astrologers and fortune-tellers do a steady business."
0.55,0.6,0.55,"You’ll also notice that gambling is a passion, whether it be cards, mah-jong, the lottery, or the horses."
0.5625,0.5,0.5,"Sightseeing in Hong Kong starts at sea level with the enthralling water traffic — a mix of freighters, ferries, tugs, junks, and yachts."
0.5,0.5825,0.5,"Of course it was built , but it was built vertically within the city walls, meaning that new buildings were constructed atop existing ones like so: The effect is the sort of architecture one only finds in dreams or representations of them, like the one in the finale of the fourth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer , wherein Joss Whedon took advantage of contiguous three-walled film sets to depict Xander Harris moving seamlessly from the upstairs bathroom at Buffy's house:"
0.5,0.4,0.5,The effect of not being on vacation in Italy on a man with a tall stack of papers to grade.
0.5,0.5,0.5,"(This isn't technically true, but it accurately describes how it feels to those unaccustomed to the city's geography.)"
0.5,0.5,0.5,"No, but seriously, if that's not a picture I actually took, it's exactly the sort I relentlessly take, whereas check out the wife's chops above: the woman has an eye ."
0.6,0.6,0.5,have a happy vacation that place looks fascinating I should get a passport
0.7,0.5,0.4,"I'm having to live it through my beautiful, vacationing wife."
0.4175,0.5825,0.4175,Sorry I got confuzzled.
0.55,0.5,0.44999999999999996,Peter Collopy: Dopplr has a nice carbon calculator built-in.
0.5,0.6,0.65,"IMHO, we all have an ethical obligation to offset our carbon footprint -- now."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"You should see this on a screen before you purchase the ticket, and possibly also after."
0.5,0.5,0.55,"April 27, 2009 4:45 PM Brad Templeton: When I got to United's site it has two columns, one for true miles flown (sort of) and one for elite bonus."
0.5,0.5,0.625,"However, it does show 500 for the short haul flights, but I bet those are mostly L.A. so you can fill in the real mileage to L.A. on those, it should not take long."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,"April 27, 2009 6:03 PMYaacov Iland: I'd check into the effectiveness of carbon offsets, particularly tree plantations, before spending money on them: http://www.newint.org/features/2006/07/01/keynote/"
0.3325,0.5,0.75,I travel way too much.
0.44999999999999996,0.55,0.55,"If you don't believe that and still insist on paying someone else to consume less, then please consider paying me."
0.4,0.44999999999999996,0.55,But to calculate it accurately requires churning through a pile of flights.
0.5,0.5,0.6,I removed all the turf from my property and replaced it with vines and perennials.
0.625,0.5,0.625,I would gladly accept the sum of fifteen thousand dollars from Prof Lessig or anyone else to offset his carbon heavy lifestyle.
0.44999999999999996,0.55,0.65,But I want something more accurate.
0.4175,0.5,0.5,"""an unbelievably inefficient way of reducing emissions,"""
0.375,0.4375,0.5625,"""benefiting not the climate but the burgeoning consultancy industry"""
0.5,0.5,0.5,"""Carbon Offset Program."""
0.5,0.5,0.5,For example ShopGreen Merchant Reports 90% of customers 'go green'
0.5,0.4375,0.5,'go green'
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0.5,0.5,0.5,"Tara stood stock-still, waiting for the first tiny gleam from the scout craft to appear in the darkness of the wormhole."
0.4,0.6,0.55,"Tarrin, no doubt with orders from Mason, was questioning her command decisions."
0.3125,0.4375,0.5,"It was not an attractive face right now; her ebony eyes shadowed by hours on the watch, full lips pursed with frustration."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"She picked imaginary flecks off her stark gray jumpsuit, and snorted."
0.25,0.6675,0.6675,"You look like hell, Tar."
0.55,0.55,0.55,"Harmon was an excellent addition to the bridge team, but was she open minded enough to defy United Earth Command and sever all ties from Earth?"
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.5,"It would be a shame to lose that talent, though."
0.5,0.6675,0.4175,"A gasp from the psychic broke her silent vigil, and she turned."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"His silken fur, which would be tawny golden and striped with jet black bands, was dyed perfectly to a pure black, and his mane trimmed and thinned as to be indistinguishable from the rest of his coat."
0.35,0.44999999999999996,0.55,Won't Central be crushed to learn that another gateway has yielded little more than a class F planet and a white dwarf system.
0.5,0.5,0.55,"The distinctive whuffle of pleasure rippled through the betas on the bridge, and Rakal let loose a small growl, as if to caution his charges against false hope."
0.625,0.625,0.625,Harmon's face slowly animated - joy sweeping in to replace stern concentration.
0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,0.5,He's not even bringing them back through for a face to face briefing.
0.25,0.55,0.75,"""Harmon, tell that good for nothing son of a beta to get his hindquarters through the gate and back here NOW, or I'll open fire on him when we come back through."""
0.5,0.4375,0.5,"In an essay on the femme fatale heroines of film noir, Janey Place argues that the strong behavior of the female characters supersedes the moral lessons supposedly imparted by their morals at the end."
0.55,0.5,0.44999999999999996,"She writes, “the final ‘lesson’ of the myth often fades into the background and we retain the image of the erotic, strong, unrepressed (if destructive) woman.”"
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.5,‘lesson’
0.5,0.5,0.5,"However, consciously or unconsciously, these authors created a female character who fits the characteristics of a feisty heroine."
0.5,0.5,0.5,“Pagoda”
0.5425,0.4575,0.5425,"“She was a loving wife, a caring mother, rescuer of her family from the first flood, and, at that point, a general benefactor of man. She took on the virtues of a traditional Chinese female, particularly forbearance”"
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Ibid., 53."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"“Femme, ”"
0.5,0.4375,0.5625,“The Lust of the White Serpant”
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.55,"Both of these stories align negative connotations with her beauty, suggesting that her sexuality is the cause of their distraction."
0.5,0.4,0.5,"In addition to distracting sexuality, the irregular characterization of Madame White Snake might be another trait her character has in common with the archetypical noir femme fatale."
0.5,0.5,0.55,"“Klute 1: A Contemporary Film Noir and Feminist Criticism,”"
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.44999999999999996,The complications in her character serve to undercut the ostensible didactic intent of these stories.
0.4,0.5,0.5,Female beauty is a dangerous thing that ties men to the transitory world and prohibits them from being free from desire and ascending to Nirvana.
0.5,0.55,0.55,"In “Lust,” the priest informs Toyoo “Those creatures took advantage of your fair looks and tempted you."
0.44999999999999996,0.4,0.44999999999999996,"But you, yourself, owing to a lack of courage and spirit, fell victim to their temporary form” Ugetsu Monogatari, 177-178. ."
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.55,"The implications of this are that a stronger, more capable man would not fall for the Lady’s trickery."
0.75,0.65,0.6,"Certainly, readers admire her patience and loyalty: “I searched everywhere, and now that at last I’ve found you, I’m very happy,” Ibid.,173. she gushes to him in “Lust.”"
0.4,0.5,0.6,Readers must also acknowledge that her human lover is breaking his promise to her when he leaves her.
0.44999999999999996,0.6,0.55,"Please, since we are already married, take me back, and let’s stay together the rest of our lives."
0.5,0.55,0.5,"In another traditional vernacular story, “Tsu Shih-Niang Sinks the Jewel Box in Anger, “Tu Shih-Niang Sinks the Jew Box in Anger,” trans, Richard M. W. Ho, in Y. W. Ma and Joseph S. M. Lau. Traditional Chinese Stories : Themes and Variations. Boston: Zheng & Zui Co, 1986, 358. ” the male protagonist breaks a promise he made to his concubine lover, and suffers for it, suggesting that traditionally, loyalty and keeping ones word was valued on the man’s part as well as a woman’s."
0.5,0.55,0.55,"“Tsu Shih-Niang Sinks the Jewel Box in Anger, “Tu Shih-Niang Sinks the Jew Box in Anger,” trans, Richard M. W. Ho, in Y. W. Ma and Joseph S. M. Lau. Traditional Chinese Stories : Themes and Variations. Boston: Zheng & Zui Co, 1986, 358. ”"
0.4,0.4,0.44999999999999996,"So her husband’s failure to follow through on his end of the bargain, completely forgetting the love he once had for her, makes readers more sympathetic to Madame White Snake’s plight."
0.75,0.625,0.625,"At a price nearly half off the regular membership dues, you will receive a host of member benefits (more on these in a moment)_and, far more important the satisfaction of actually doing something to improve the ocean world we pass on to our children."
0.5,0.5,0.55,won a major court victory that closed thousands of square miles to U.S. longline fishing because of its threat to the survival of Pacific leatherback sea turtles.
0.5,0.625,0.625,These are prime examples of hard fought victories and critical efforts that are working to improve the health of our marine environment.
0.5,0.5,0.6,"And won’t you also please make a tax-deductible contribution of just $15 --or more if you are able -- to help save the dolphins, whales, sea turtles, and other amazing marine creatures who so desperately need support from all of us these days!"
0.6,0.6,0.55,But think how much you -- and your loved ones who share this watery planet of ours -- stand to gain if you join.
0.5,0.55,0.5,"And now, growing numbers of dolphins with malignant tumors and high levels of toxic chemicals in their tissues are washing onto U.S. beaches."
0.5,0.5,0.5825,Something in his tone couldn’t be disbelieved.
0.44999999999999996,0.55,0.5,"With that, he made a sharp turn onto a side street that I hadn’t noticed before."
0.5,0.4375,0.5625,"Their bumpers looked ready to drop off, and their paint was half smog."
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.6,"“Just ignore that,”"
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.5,Someone standing just in the lip of an alley glared at me with gleaming eyes.
0.5,0.5,0.5,He parked and got out.
0.5,0.6,0.55,"I hopped out, ran after him, and reached him just as he was knocking on the door."
0.55,0.55,0.5,"The ceiling was high and wooden, and I could see part of a DJ’s booth down the hall."
0.5,0.4375,0.5625,Did I ever tell you about them?”
0.35,0.6,0.55,"What’s your problem, kid?”"
0.4375,0.4375,0.5625,"His skin was brown and stretched, like some diseased sapling’s bark."
0.3325,0.6675,0.5,"It pulled back around his fingertips, which bore things that might have been nails or claws."
0.25,0.5,0.5,“Bummer.
0.5,0.5,0.5,"He wasn’t a person you’d describe with normal adjectives, you know?”"
0.55,0.55,0.55,“I get that all the time around here.”
0.5,0.5,0.5,That’s why I couldn’t understand why no-one else remembered him.
0.4,0.5,0.5,"I remember that he hardly ever moved, just stared at Rachel."
0.5,0.375,0.5,asked the hunchback.
0.5,0.5,0.5,"“Not that I can remember, man."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.55,"I can send you to a guy who knows all about them, though."
0.5,0.55,0.5,"If this cat’s for real, I bet my friend can tell you everything you need to know.”"
0.75,0.65,0.55,"“You’re a wonder, Dvorov."
0.4,0.44999999999999996,0.5,It won’t be long before nightfall.”
0.8325,0.7075,0.5,Good luck!”
0.55,0.55,0.5,"“Thanks, Dvorov."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.55,Let’s go.”
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.5,"He gave me a half-hearted wave that made me wonder what exactly we were chasing, and whether I should be wearing body armor."
0.5,0.6,0.6,"Back on the street, I began to see things that I had never looked for until then."
0.5,0.6,0.55,There’s no time to waste.”
0.4,0.5,0.5,"“Nathan, you told me five minutes ago that you would do anything to help Rachel."
0.5,0.5,0.4375,"“Nathan, I told you: my family owes yours a debt."
0.44999999999999996,0.55,0.5,“Only if you stop beginning every sentence with my name.”
0.5,0.55,0.5,"As we headed down the sidewalk, I said, “What is your name, anyway?”"
0.35,0.6,0.35,I started wondering again how reliable my guide’s credentials were.
0.4,0.5,0.65,"“we’re going to stop and turn three times widdersh – er, counterclockwise, then face east."
0.5,0.625,0.625,He pointed at the wall to our right.
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.6,"“Okay, you might feel silly, but just turn three times to your left."
0.4375,0.5,0.5,"Nepthys walked towards it and pressed his bloody palm against it, opening the door."
0.5,0.4,0.5,“Are you coming?”
0.5,0.5,0.35,I’m not sure I’m up for a night out.”
0.5,0.5,0.5,it asked.
0.5,0.5,0.4,If – ”
0.65,0.65,0.5,"Please, if we could see him, we would be much obliged."
0.5,0.25,0.55,I imagine that people do not come here for unimportant reasons.”
0.5,0.4175,0.5,It hissed thoughtfully.
0.5,0.55,0.55,“ – to close it.”
0.55,0.55,0.55,Nepthys bowed slightly and we walked behind the cart.
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,The door took us to the bottom of a flight of wooden stairs.
0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,0.55,"The room held a bed, a bookcase, and a desk with one chair."
0.5,0.5,0.5,I smelled matted hair and cedar chips.
0.5,0.4,0.5,He opened one eye when we came in but did not move.
0.15000000000000002,0.8500000000000001,0.4,"“Oh, shit!”"
0.4375,0.4375,0.4375,"“Only unsuccessfully, right?”"
0.5,0.625,0.375,"“No, those people don’t usually leave stories.”"
0.6,0.6,0.55,"“Oh, thanks, Nepthys, for your confidence-inspiring tales of experience."
0.25,0.65,0.8,“My plan is that you shut up while we’re trying to conduct business with someone who might be able to tell us what we’re actually going up against.
0.5825,0.6675,0.5,I can hear your heartbeat from over here.”
0.30000000000000004,0.44999999999999996,0.35,I shut up and tried to breathe.
0.25,0.35,0.4,"“Please, accept our apologies."
0.4,0.6,0.4,Now: may we ask you a few questions about an individual we believe to be a vampire?
0.4175,0.375,0.4575,The little man drew a few loud breaths that died in the wooden room’s tight air.
0.5,0.5,0.5,I tried to keep myself calm.
0.55,0.5,0.44999999999999996,"It would allow me to leave this bed, despite my current illness."
0.5,0.5,0.5825,"“Of course we will fetch you the stone,”"
0.4575,0.5,0.5,"Instead, it looked like we were in the red-light district: women who probably wanted more than our money eyed us from the alleys."
0.65,0.65,0.5,"She grinned and gave me a kiss across the table, her lips soft and firm and sticking just enough that she gave the feeling you were really kissing, not just pressing your face into someone else’s."
0.4,0.44999999999999996,0.55,"“No, thank you,” said Nepthys, “we regret that we cannot take up your kind offer."
0.5,0.55,0.5,She raised an eyebrow.
0.5,0.35,0.6,"“Excuse me,”"
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.5,"“Why, the merchandise, of course,” she said."
0.55,0.5,0.55,Nepthys leaned close to my ear.
0.5,0.5625,0.5625,"This is one of the stranger items, though."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.4,"“Here it is,” she said."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"“That it is,” Nepthys assured her."
0.5,0.5,0.5,“What would convince you to part with it?”
0.4,0.5,0.55,"No,"
0.375,0.5625,0.8125,"No,”"
0.55,0.5,0.55,“appraising glance”
0.4,0.6,0.65,"“As if I wanted it,” interrupted the woman."
0.6,0.5,0.7,"“I think it’s a fair deal, considering the return,” he told me, “but it’s up to you.”"
0.5,0.4,0.44999999999999996,"There was a wooden chair, where she sat me down and asked me to wait."
0.5,0.55,0.6,"“Roll up your sleeves,” she told me."
0.35,0.6,0.44999999999999996,I thought that I could feel a slight itching.
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,She stood up and I followed her out to the street.
0.44999999999999996,0.55,0.5,"“Be careful you don’t let him touch it until you’re ready to use it,”"
0.5,0.4375,0.5625,He thought about that.
0.5,0.6,0.55,"Without hearing the car horns, I could almost taste the air of late March through the street fumes."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"The natives are still here, but so is everyone else."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.5,"If it was March, that meant that we’d been together almost a year and a half."
0.5,0.375,0.5,He downed the second shot.
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.55,"So what else do you want to know, Nathan?”"
0.55,0.55,0.5,"I was born here, and I was lucky enough not to get attached to any particular river."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"I mean, we might have a lot of work ahead of us.”"
0.5,0.5,0.6675,"We should get going, though."
0.3325,0.25,0.5825,Still woozy?”
0.5,0.5,0.5,“A little walking should get the stuff into your system.
0.5,0.5,0.55,"As we left the bar, I asked to see the rock."
0.5,0.5,0.5,“I’m just curious.
0.5,0.55,0.5,"I almost tripped over him, and the stone went flying out of the pouch."
0.44999999999999996,0.6,0.55,"Nepthys tried to grab it, but, by reflex, I caught it first."
0.25,0.6,0.44999999999999996,"Immediately, I felt it grow warm and knew that I had done something very stupid."
0.5,0.5,0.55,"“Nathan,” said Nepthys, “I think that you just did something very stupid.”"
0.5,0.35,0.5,"“I agree,” I told him."
0.44999999999999996,0.6,0.35,“I have no idea!”
0.30000000000000004,0.35,0.6,but I couldn’t hear him.
0.5,0.4575,0.5425,She waved down a car and pulled me in.
0.5,0.4,0.5,The next thing that comes out of your mouth is probably what she’ll respond to until we figure out how to put her back.”
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.6,I’d never named anyone before.
0.55,0.5,0.55,I thought back to one time when I’d been thinking about raising a family and remembered that I’d always liked the name –
0.5,0.35,0.5,“Amy.”
0.5,0.4,0.5,Nepthys looked at me incredulously.
0.4,0.5,0.55,“and you’d better pray to whatever god you think will listen that he won’t care we woke her up.”
0.375,0.25,0.25,"When Nepthys opened the little man’s door, he rolled over and grinned to see us, but when Amy walked in, he blanched."
0.25,0.5825,0.5825,“You idiots!
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.44999999999999996,"“But …but sir,”"
0.5,0.5,0.5,“are you sure she’s no help to you?”
0.25,0.75,0.6675,Fools!
0.5,0.5,0.5,"I thought about Rachel; in the excitement, I had forgotten why we were chasing down vampire experts."
0.55,0.6,0.6,"ome on, we’re heading out.”"
0.5,0.5,0.5,"She still hadn’t spoken since I named her, so I wasn’t sure."
0.4,0.5,0.25,"I shivered as I walked past the pale man’s blank eyes, wondering what they were staring at."
0.55,0.55,0.35,Amy gave my hand a squeeze.
0.5,0.55,0.55,"Nepthys lead us down a hallway that matched the building’s façade, a vaulted, ribbed intestine of a hallway, whose black walls looked unsettlingly organic."
0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,0.55,"Then there was a door, which opened as we approached."
0.5,0.75,0.65,“Nepthys!”
0.6675,0.625,0.5,“It’s been years since I’ve seen you.
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.5,"“This man is here in search of his lover, who was stolen from him in the human world,” said Nepthys, ushering us toward the woman in silk."
0.5,0.55,0.55,"“And I am Isis,” said the woman, offering her hand to me."
0.65,0.65,0.6,"I took it and, dropping to one knee, gave her fingers a small kiss."
0.75,0.6,0.5,"She laughed, liquid, alluring, alarming."
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.4,"Through the dark, I could see three bolts left in the wall from where they’d taken down the crucifix."
0.55,0.55,0.6,"“Now, how can I help the elegantly mannered friend of my Nepthys and his surprising young charge?"
0.5,0.5,0.44999999999999996,"“May I have a little more of what you gave me before, Nepthys?”"
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.6,I asked.
0.5,0.5,0.5625,He poured a dollop of the clear liquid into one cup and passed it to me.
0.5825,0.6675,0.5,"The wine’s rich scent had a touch of something chemical that I recognized from the bar, but it filled my mouth and sank into my veins with reassuring warmth."
0.55,0.6,0.55,This story might be interesting.
0.5,0.5,0.5,Does it have anything to do with why your head is shaved?”
0.6,0.6,0.5,"“I have a feeling that she was worth the trade,”"
0.5,0.375,0.5625,She has good blood under her cheeks.
0.55,0.7,0.6,"“She would have been worth it,”"
0.5825,0.5825,0.5,"“Now I understand why you’re here,”"
0.5,0.65,0.4,“You do?”
0.8500000000000001,0.8500000000000001,0.75,“That’s amazing!”
0.44999999999999996,0.55,0.44999999999999996,A dark glow coalesced around her palms.
0.625,0.625,0.5425,"Amy leaned forward, looking amazed."
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.44999999999999996,"The dark glow began to flicker, and Isis’ frown of concentration became one of worry."
0.5,0.5,0.44999999999999996,Then her fingers tensed and her arms began to shake.
0.44999999999999996,0.65,0.5,‘Is she all right?’
0.5,0.5,0.65,"Now Nepthys lunged forward, took her by the arms."
0.44999999999999996,0.6,0.44999999999999996,"She shook her head, rubbing her face into the white fur and murmuring something."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"When she finally spoke, I had to lean close to hear her."
0.44999999999999996,0.6,0.5,"“I found your vampire,” she said, “but he might know that someone’s looking for him."
0.5,0.55,0.55,You should look for him at Dvorov’s as quickly as you can.”
0.5,0.4,0.55,She turned to me with tired sympathy.
0.5,0.5,0.6,“I didn’t see a girl with him.
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.5,"I stood, and one of her servants took me and Amy to the door."
0.5,0.55,0.5,"He stood to go, but she caught his sleeve and pulled him back for a moment."
0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,0.4,"“I really hope we find your Rachel,”"
0.6,0.55,0.55,"“I know a quick way to Dvorov’s,”"
0.55,0.65,0.6,“I bet he’s kicking himself now for not having a way to contact me.”
0.5,0.5,0.5,The pulse from inside made the building sound like a giant heart.
0.75,0.7,0.5,"“Yo, my man Nep!"
0.35,0.65,0.65,You’re crazy.
0.55,0.65,0.7,"“I guess, man, but be quick."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.5,"Something with too many arms was manning the turntables above the crowd, which looked more impenetrable tonight than ever before."
0.4,0.65,0.65,"Things with scales and claws kept flailing against me, pressing me into the wall, but I took a breath and kept moving."
0.5825,0.5,0.5,Then I felt a tug on the back of my shirt and noticed that Amy was following me.
0.5,0.4,0.55,I gathered her under my arm.
0.55,0.4,0.44999999999999996,"Dvorov was somewhere behind me, too, negotiating delicately through his patrons."
0.375,0.5,0.5,"Just in front of me, a massive thing slammed into the wall, sending up a cloud of granite dust."
0.55,0.6,0.44999999999999996,Its haunches twitched in time to the music.
0.5,0.6,0.5,"A woman who could have been an elf twitched and jerked beside me, fingers trembling at the torn edges of her clothing."
0.4175,0.5825,0.5,"Then a looming shape to my right fell away, and I saw him in a flash of the strobe, his black eyes staring deadly into the crowd."
0.44999999999999996,0.6,0.5,"A bleeding, eyeless thing shuddered and beat its arms against me, but I ducked around it and toward the bar."
0.25,0.7,0.4,"I slipped past the waving monstrosity that had blocked my view before, a mountain of wet, veined flesh, and had almost passed through the crowd when a clawed hand grabbed my arm."
0.44999999999999996,0.6,0.4,He pulled my ear down to his mouth.
0.4,0.65,0.5,he shouted.
0.35,0.4,0.5,“It must have been wishful thinking.”
0.30000000000000004,0.5,0.5,It’s a dumb idea.
0.35,0.6,0.44999999999999996,"His eyes were glowing red, and he had bared a set of fangs that could probably take my hand off."
0.4175,0.6675,0.5,"He shot back up, hardly touching the ground, and I kicked him back."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.55,"I bet his hide-out is nearby, too."
0.5,0.6675,0.5825,"He bashed up a set of stairs set into the side of the wall, and we chased up after him, heading up a huge staircase that seemed to go up for more stories than the building could have held."
0.4,0.6,0.6,"I didn’t imagine that Nepthys had done it, and it wasn’t without alarm that I ran after him."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.5,A black hallway opened into a space like a cathedral.
0.5,0.4175,0.5,"The panes looked dyed black, and only a few cold beams slipped through the filter."
0.5,0.4,0.5,"There was Nepthys, on the other side of the pews, holding the wooden box in his hand."
0.3325,0.75,0.4175,"The blade lodged in the wood, its silver point penetrating the velvet and nearly reaching my skin."
0.30000000000000004,0.65,0.35,My arms shook from the force of his throw.
0.44999999999999996,0.55,0.55,Then he landed heavy beside me and I scrambled to stand.
0.44999999999999996,0.6,0.55,“This one’s blood isn’t worth drinking.”
0.2,0.7,0.25,Hands closed on my neck and I felt my spine crack.
0.35,0.44999999999999996,0.30000000000000004,I must have fallen to the floor then.
0.4375,0.5,0.4375,"I could perceive Nepthys’ sword flashing over me, and I heard steel crack, then bone."
0.4375,0.625,0.4375,The vampire was walking just steps ahead of me.
0.55,0.65,0.6,"I stepped up behind him and raised my hands, which almost seemed to be glowing."
0.5,0.4,0.5,"Behind me, Amy was kneeling beside Nepthys, whose arm and rib cage were knitting back together like a wooden toy that falls apart when its string is released but draws itself together at a slight tug."
0.65,0.75,0.5,"“My fuckin’ hero,”"
0.4,0.55,0.44999999999999996,"Standing in the center of the church, I took out my cell phone and called the police."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Last night, walking on West 2nd street around – maybe eleven or twelve o’clock."
0.4,0.6,0.44999999999999996,"…Sir, if she’s in any danger, it will probably be too late to help her by that time."
0.4,0.55,0.4,"Glancing down the street, I realized that I didn’t have a friend to drive me home this time, and it was a long walk back to the streets where taxis ran."
0.4,0.35,0.44999999999999996,"After I’d walked about a block, a car rolled up behind me."
0.35,0.55,0.5,It slowed down as it neared me and I started to worry.
0.5,0.6,0.5,I heard an automatic window roll down.
0.5,0.6,0.5,"“Hey,” said a male voice, “do you need some help?”"
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.5,I turned around.
0.5,0.5,0.5,he said.
0.5,0.55,0.5,“Would you like some help?”
0.55,0.55,0.5,"“Ah, I think I’m fine, thanks,” I told him, and turned back to the sidewalk."
0.5,0.35,0.55,"As I got older, I shook the tales off with a nod and a ""Yes, Nana."""
0.4,0.6,0.55,"“No thanks, sir!"
0.55,0.44999999999999996,0.5,He met my eyes coolly.
0.5425,0.4175,0.5,"“Okay,”"
0.5,0.5,0.55,“I’m in the car.
0.4575,0.5825,0.5,"Now, will you tell me how you know my family, and how you happened to be driving by just now?"
0.44999999999999996,0.6,0.65,"In fact, why didn’t you call me by name the first time?"
0.55,0.55,0.55,And how did you recognize me when – ”
0.44999999999999996,0.7,0.55,"I am here now because you called for help, and no-one else would answer.”"
0.5,0.5,0.5,He turned onto the next street and shifted up.
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0.625,0.625,0.625,"His best season came in 2000 with the Reds, when he hit .316 with 13 homers and 56 RBI."
0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,0.55,ANGELS MAKE TRADE TO GET OUTFIELD DEPTH
0.55,0.5,0.5,"""He's a good defender, he has a good arm, he plays the tough right-field position and plays it well."
0.55,0.5,0.55,"""I've done that a lot in my career,"" Ochoa said during a conference call."
0.55,0.35,0.6,"Ochoa's new teammates were generally pleased with the move, even if it wasn't a blockbuster."
0.3325,0.5825,0.5,"""But we didn't need something earth-shattering right now."
0.5,0.5,0.5,It didn't seem like we had a lot of holes to fill.
0.5,0.5,0.55,--It's because of Molina: The Angels felt they could part with Fabregas because of the play of catcher Jose Molina.
0.4,0.44999999999999996,0.5,"""I feel bad for Jorge, he's a good friend of mine,"" Bengie said."
0.5825,0.5825,0.5825,"""But they liked the way (Jose) has played and they're giving him a chance."
0.55,0.55,0.44999999999999996,"""I just hope they keep me here,"""
0.5,0.5,0.5,"""I just hope they keep me here,"" Jose said."
0.15000000000000002,0.44999999999999996,0.30000000000000004,"""Obviously I'm disappointed to go from a team playing for first place to a team that isn't contending."
0.4,0.6,0.4,"The Russian team of Yelena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze narrowly won the gold medal over the Canadians Jamie Sale and David Pelletier, who were later awarded a duplicate gold medal because of the ensuing judging controversy."
0.4375,0.5,0.5625,Sale and Pelletier declined to comment on Wednesday.
0.5,0.4,0.5,The United States is seeking his extradition from Italy.
0.5,0.55,0.55,"The FBI cited a vivid conversation with Anissina's mother in which Tokhtakhounov assured her that even if her daughter ""falls, we will make sure she is No. 1."""
0.5,0.4175,0.5,"After the Winter Olympics, a French judge, Marie-Reine Le Gougne, was suspended by the International Skating Union for not reporting pressure she said was put on her by Didier Gailhaguet, president of the French Skating Federation, to vote for the Russian pairs team."
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.6,She later recanted and said that Canadian officials had pressured her.
0.5,0.55,0.55,"In return, Gailhaguet told the FBI on Feb. 23 as the Olympics were taking place, Tokhtakhounov asked for Gailhaguet's help in renewing his French visa, which was about to expire."
0.6,0.6,0.6,"Tokhtakhounov's action apparently came soon after he said he received a phone call from the mother of the female ice dancer, presumably Anissina."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"""mother or the father and tell them everything will be OK"""
0.55,0.55,0.5,He appears to be referring to Anissina.
0.5825,0.5,0.6675,"He added: ""Everything is going the way you need it."""
0.6,0.6,0.55,"They also discussed the coming judging in ice dancing, in which the French and the Italian teams were the favorites."
0.5,0.4175,0.4175,"The second mobster said the French pair had ""only three judges,"" and of the two judges they needed to win the gold medal ""one is ours, and the other our friends will give them."""
0.5,0.4,0.5,Their concern for lining up more votes than they thought the Italian ice dancers had may stem from the Italian team's defeat of Anissina and Peizerat in the 2001 world championships.
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.5,"He assured her that it was nonsense, but that Gailhaguet ""knows my name very well -- he tried to help me, and later he made stuff up to scare you so you would not connect me to him even more."""
0.44999999999999996,0.4,0.55,The conversations seem to indicate a familiarity between Tokhtakhounov and Anissina.
0.5825,0.4175,0.5,"Tass, the official Russian news agency, reported that Anissina attended a ceremony in 1999 at a Paris hotel honoring Tokhtakhounov for his philanthropy."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.55,"Lloyd Ward, chief executive officer of the U.S. Olympic Committee, said in a statement, ""Competitors from all nations must be assured that they compete on a level playing field."""
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.7,"The new plant is part of IBM's push to gain a strong lead in chip-making beyond the personal computer business, where Intel and East Asian chip producers hold the advantage."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,"""What we call the lab-to-fab time should be as close to zero as possible,"""
0.5,0.4,0.5,"In remarks during a ribbon-cutting ceremony here on Wednesday, Gov. George E. Pataki said he expected the facility to generate thousands more jobs in the Hudson Valley area for contractors and suppliers catering to the factory."
0.5,0.35,0.44999999999999996,"In a brief speech, Samuel J. Palmisano, IBM's chief executive, emphasized that it was important to make long-term investments despite the current slump in the technology business."
0.5,0.5,0.625,"""I need more capacity in that end of the market,"""
0.5,0.6,0.55,"""I need more capacity in that end of the market,"" he said, ""and this is factory is critical to meeting that growing demand."""
0.5,0.5,0.5,But industry analysts said the plant should be insulated from a falloff in one or a few segments of the semiconductor market.
0.5,0.5,0.5,The factory is highly automated and designed to shift flexibly to produce many different kinds of chips to suit demand.
0.5,0.4375,0.4375,"Because each of the hundreds of processing machines is self-enclosed, and essentially airtight, the uniforms operators wear are less constricting than in the previous generation of chip plants, which looked like space suits."
0.5,0.4175,0.5,They look more like workers in a bakery.
0.5,0.5,0.5,"The factory, which opens as the computer chip business is in a slump, is a costly and risky move for IBM."
0.5,0.4375,0.5625,"Date with destiny: After Vanderbilt opens with Georgia Tech, the Commodores will play host to Furman, which is Johnson's former team and a Division I-AA powerhouse."
0.5,0.55,0.5,Did he consider trying to cancel?
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.5,Auburn football players are reminded of last year's losses every time they go into the weight room.
0.5825,0.5825,0.5,"""We see that crimson (from the Alabama loss) every day,"" tight end Lorenzo Diamond said, ""and that's a big motivational factor for us."
0.5,0.4375,0.5625,"BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Since he took the head coaching job at bottom-dwelling Vanderbilt, the question Bobby Johnson is asked most often is not, ""Why will things be different under you?"""
0.5,0.5,0.5,"""Outside of that, he looks like a clone to me."""
0.44999999999999996,0.65,0.44999999999999996,"""and he said he felt like he was having an out-of-body experience."""
0.5,0.35,0.55,Poster boy:
0.5,0.5,0.5,Rex Grossman will be the subject of a Heisman Trophy campaign.
0.55,0.55,0.55,He was the runner-up last year as a sophomore.
0.55,0.55,0.5,"Of all the 12th games added to the schedule, Florida's might be the most daunting: Miami on Sept. 7 after the Gators open up with Alabama-Birmingham."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.55,"""The people of Miami and the people of the University of Florida wanted us to have it for a long time, but it wasn't going to happen with the 11-game format."""
0.4375,0.6875,0.5625,I swear.
0.6,0.6,0.55,Johnson will be signing plenty of autographs with his own name if he reaches his goal this year.
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.55,"As it ripens, it gets progressively more bitter due to the quinine it contains."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"USES Bitter melons are used in many Asian cuisines, most prominently Indian, Chinese and Vietnamese."
0.55,0.55,0.6,"CHRON EDITORS NOTE: Each week, The Chronicle offers readers a look at the more unusual fruits, vegetables and herbs of each season and how to use them."
0.625,0.5,0.5,"The schedule Child and her assistant of 14 years, former pastry chef Stephanie Hersh, have laid out is not exactly a senior-citizen routine, even though Child has always been candid about her age and realistic in assessing her own capabilities."
0.5,0.4,0.55,Grande dame of cooking still going strong at 90: Julia Child celebrates in San Francisco
0.5625,0.5,0.5625,She will have reunions of sorts with her famous kitchen in the next few weeks.
0.55,0.5,0.5,"How does it feel to turn 90 and have attained the status of an icon, a living legend?"
0.4,0.5,0.5,"To see her kitchen -- and by extension, herself -- enshrined in the Smithsonian, she said, ""will be an odd feeling"" and no doubt bring back memories."
0.65,0.6,0.55,She's already got her next project picked out: A memoir of her and Paul's life in the diplomatic service with his professional photographs and some of her collected recipes.
0.55,0.5,0.5,"That lunch lit a spark that made Julia decide to take classes at the Cordon Bleu, which in turn led to her friendship and collaboration with Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle, co-authors of ""Mastering the Art of French Cooking,"" and, ultimately, to America's culinary revolution."
0.55,0.44999999999999996,0.5,"For information on COPIA events open to the public, sign on to www.copia.org or call (707) 259-1600."
0.8125,0.6875,0.6875,"""It seems she loves soups,"" said Siegel, ""so I am picking up on her vichyssoise."
0.5825,0.5,0.6675,"When Child was asked some years back what she would order for her last meal, she ended the list with ""something chocolate for dessert."""
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.5,Corn vichyssoise with caviar
0.5,0.5,0.5,Atlantic halibut with flavored butters
0.5,0.5,0.5,"She never subscribed to cuisine minceur, cholesterol-free cooking, meat-free meal plans, organic food or any of the other politically correct trends of different times -- and that includes restricted diets, in spades."
0.55,0.35,0.55,Drink modest amounts of good wine.
0.5,0.5,0.5,But what about Bay Area notables who like to cook but are not connected to a professional kitchen?
0.55,0.55,0.5,"Harry Denton, San Francisco nightclub owner: ""My favorite thing about her is her straightforward honesty and that her favorite food is butter."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Impatient with regulators, the National Environmental Trust began a boycott campaign in February called ""Take a Pass on Chilean Seabass."""
0.6,0.55,0.6,The Washington-based conservation group says more than 530 restaurants have signed on.
0.4375,0.5,0.4375,A number of restaurants not officially part of the National Environmental Trust boycott also have stopped serving Chilean seabass.
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Whole Foods Markets, with 133 stores nationwide, also does not sell Chilean seabass."
0.4375,0.5,0.625,"""It involves very complicated choices that have to do with the biology of species, their life cycles, how they respond to various changes in the oceans, etc."""
0.55,0.4,0.4,More than $7 million was given to projects aimed at educating the general public.
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Some working chefs say they routinely review conservation group Web sites, government reports and industry sources."
0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,0.55,"""I don't know."
0.5,0.5,0.5,It's no longer unusual for chefs to refuse to serve a species they think to be at risk of extinction or for a retailer to promote seafoods that are abundant and part of a healthy marine ecosystem.
0.5,0.4,0.44999999999999996,She can be contacted at michellecole(at)news.oregonian.com.)
0.4175,0.5825,0.5,Some also say they must listen to their customers' concerns or risk a consumer backlash.
0.5825,0.5,0.5,"But powerful groups, including the American Medical Association, oppose the idea and have a surprising source of support: psychologists themselves, some of whom call it a radical experiment and fear that the most likely victim will be the science of psychology."
0.5,0.4175,0.5825,Neither Davison nor most other RxP opponents doubt the efficacy of medications.
0.5,0.30000000000000004,0.5,"""The timing is peculiar to abandon psychological science or to convert it to a medical science,"""
0.625,0.5,0.5,"""Making sure that practicing psychologists are giving patients interventions based on the best available psychological science should be the APA's priority,"" argues Emory University's Scott Lilienfeld, president of the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology (SSCP)."
0.4,0.5,0.44999999999999996,"More than any philosophical betrayal of psychology, RxP opponents fear that the movement will undermine the science they love."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"They believe that if prescriptive authority becomes the norm, biomedical requirements will inevitably seep into the psychology curriculum, at the expense of traditional psychological science and methodology."
0.55,0.6,0.6,RxP opponents charge the APA with pushing its prescription-privileges agenda without adequately assessing support for it in the field.
0.35,0.6,0.55,The 300-member SSCP is the only group within the APA to have taken a formal stance against prescription privileges.
0.5,0.55,0.5,"The APA has scheduled 30 minutes at its meeting in August for an RxP debate, but its leadership believes it already has an accurate sense of support for its RxP policy."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.55,"This year four states besides New Mexico -- Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois and Tennessee -- have pending legislation for psychologist prescription privileges."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Intending to ease consumer access to mental health care, New Mexico legislators in March passed a law allowing psychologists to prescribe psychotropic medications, such as antidepressants."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"The state's action, the first in the nation, has the blessing of the American Psychological Association (APA), which considers prescriptive authority a logical extension of psychologists' role as health-care providers."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.5,"""We were convinced then, and I still am, that we ended the war a year or two earlier."
0.5,0.5,0.55,"And what the casualties would have been, who knows -- but heavy."""
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.55,Karnes carries the image of hundreds of hospital beds in his mind.
0.55,0.6,0.55,"In his heart, he holds the unshakable conviction that the mission he helped organize saved America from disaster."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"""This is a Silverplate request,"""
0.5,0.5,0.5,Denise Gamino writes for the Austin (Texas) American-Statesman.
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Almost 1,800 men were assembled n late 1944 to join the top-secret unit called the 509th Composite Group."
0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,0.55,He never even told his story to students in his 40 years of teaching college.
0.4,0.5,0.5,"War is hell, he says, and when it was over, he wanted to come home and rejoin his young family and not dwell on it."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"He was only a captain, but he had been left in charge at Wendover the day Tibbets surprised them by landing a B-29, a new plane no one at Wendover had seen."
0.5,0.55,0.6,Tibbets had just been ordered to organize a combat force to drop a bomb being developed by a secret enterprise known as the Manhattan Project.
0.6,0.6,0.55,Tibbets instantly liked the isolation and vast size of Wendover and the surrounding Bonneville Salt Flats.
0.7,0.55,0.4,"And he immediately liked Karnes, who showed him around the base."
0.55,0.5,0.5,"In Karnes, Tibbets found a kindred spirit -- and a handball partner."
0.5,0.5,0.5,""""
0.5,0.4375,0.4375,"Almost overnight, Wendover became a high-security base filled with off-limit areas covered in barbed wire."
0.5,0.55,0.5,"Karnes hated to pry, and skimmed over personal portions of the letters."
0.5,0.55,0.5,On his metal desk were names of military men being ordered into the organization.
0.4175,0.5825,0.5,Phone calls were monitored.
0.5,0.4175,0.5425,"Karnes knew the 509th was preparing for a special bombing mission, but he had no idea what kind of bombs were involved."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"He said that they had split the atom and that we were going to drop an atomic bomb,"" Karnes said."
0.5,0.30000000000000004,0.4,"By spring, the 509th prepared to move to Tinian Island, near Guam and Saipan."
0.5,0.5,0.6,"Karnes handed out bunk assignments, choosing the mess officer, Chuck Perry, to share his tent."
0.44999999999999996,0.4,0.55,Not until the day before Tibbets and his crew flew to Hiroshima was the 509th told what was happening.
0.5,0.4575,0.5425,"This is the big mission."""
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Karnes and hundreds of other men from the 509th stood along the flight line as Tibbets and the Enola Gay took off at 2:45 a.m. on Aug. 6, a warm, tropical night."
0.4,0.4,0.44999999999999996,None came.
0.5,0.4,0.44999999999999996,""""
0.5,0.55,0.5,The crew slipped on dark glasses to prepare for the blinding flash of the bomb.
0.4,0.65,0.5,"A minute later, the shock wave hit."
0.25,0.7,0.55,"""We were all appalled,"""
0.5,0.4375,0.5625,But he didn't sleep long.
0.44999999999999996,0.6,0.65,"""Call Air Force headquarters if you don't believe me."""
0.55,0.55,0.5,"Five days later, Japan surrendered and World War II was over."
0.4,0.55,0.44999999999999996,"Also, international competitors drew on a large supply of very cheap labor."
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.5,"Jobs were scarce in other steel-exporting countries, and labor laws were either non-existent or allowed employers to pay much less for work."
0.5,0.375,0.5,"On a worldwide scale, newer materials such as aluminum, plastic, and composites were beginning to substitute steel both at home and abroad."
0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,0.55,"America’s steel remained unsold, flooding the world market with inferior products that no one wanted to buy."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Since this problem was a national one rather than a local one, the problems that were occurring in Youngstown were not unique."
0.4,0.4,0.55,"The problem was a national one, involving many more mills and issues than Youngstown’s alone."
0.55,0.5,0.5,"Eventually, some religious leaders involved in the Ecumenical Coalition joined forces within community members and former steel mill employees to create the Save Our Valley Campaign."
0.5,0.4,0.44999999999999996,The events that would follow this date (known as Black Monday) are seen by the people who witnessed them either as stories of great courage and determination or as monuments to human failure and false hope.
0.3125,0.5,0.4375,"The people of Youngstown, being now unemployed had very little money to spend on anything but staying alive."
0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,0.5,"College tuition, clothes, food, and heating all had to come before donations to non-profit organizations."
0.4,0.5,0.5,No one seemed to know just how to go about fixing the problems.
0.3125,0.5,0.375,"Letters and petitions were all very well, but they did little to improve the situation."
0.44999999999999996,0.55,0.44999999999999996,"People became excited and waited for the mills to reappear, but they never did."
0.5,0.5,0.5,United Steel Workers of America was the union representing the Youngstown steel workers when the closings hit.
0.4,0.55,0.5,"The higher levels of the union became increasingly disassociated with Youngstown and its plight, attempting to shut out the appeals from workers and local union representatives and to ignore what was really happening."
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.44999999999999996,"It was clear to everyone that the economic fallout from this series of closings would be one of the worst in US history, and so without any real precedents the union leaders were flustered."
0.4,0.5,0.44999999999999996,"Rather than try and come up with some sort of scenario, the USWA simply ignored what was going on in Youngstown, hoping that perhaps the problem would resolve itself, or at least not spread any further than it already had."
0.4,0.55,0.55,"Besides incompetence, the USWA had one other major reason for rejecting their local counterpart: fear of socialism."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.55,"Obviously the union itself was not afraid of socialist action, but they worried that the federal government might see the efforts of Youngstown workers to collectivize as a movement towards socialism and perhaps even communism."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,Regionalism
0.5,0.5,0.44999999999999996,"Youngstown is the name of the major city area, but surrounding it on all sides are small communities which to the casual viewer are indistinguishable from the main city itself."
0.5,0.375,0.5625,Most people in Struthers are either Orthodox or Baptist.
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.5,"Two blocks over one finds Boardman, a well-off township with a reputation for rich but unsuccessful schools."
0.5,0.5,0.5825,"With so much regional tension, it became very hard for workers to unite under a common cause, even one that would save their jobs and their futures."
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.55,"In some instances, small companies would express interest in helping the movement or in relocating their business in the area, but because of regional pride no one could ever agree where the new businesses should relocate."
0.35,0.6,0.44999999999999996,"The efforts to avoid catastrophe after the fact were unsuccessful for four main reasons: the failure of the international steel market, the lack of funds and plans in initiatives such as the Save Our Valley Campaign, the refusal of the USWA to support their local chapter out of ineptitude and fear, and the absurd but very real regionalism which corrupted solidarity efforts and drove away any hope for brining in new companies."
0.5,0.375,0.375,"For the people of Youngstown, Black Monday was not just a historical event- it was the most important event in their lives."
0.4,0.5,0.5,"Although it affected Youngstown and the surrounding area more than it affected other regions, the local people simply could not solve a national crisis on a local level."
0.4,0.55,0.5,The Decline of the Northeastern Ohio Steel Market: Why Did Attempts by Union Leaders and Concerned Citizens to Revive the Steel Industry Ultimately Fail?
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,"In fact, “More rail cars passed under the Center Street Bridge [a major bridge in Youngstown] per day than any other location in the country.”"
0.5,0.5,0.5,"By 1880, Youngstown’s population had grown to nearly 16,000, which meant it had doubled in size over a twenty-year period."
0.5,0.5,0.55,"In 1973, the Experimental Negotiating Agreement was signed."
0.3125,0.5,0.375,"This prohibited strikes and lockout, angering workers and driving productivity and laborer morale down."
0.4,0.55,0.44999999999999996,"Most importantly, Youngstown’s steel mills were slowly becoming less efficient and more expensive."
0.44999999999999996,0.35,0.55,Black Monday and the Crash of the Steel Industry
0.4,0.55,0.55,"“If you can’t make a buck, you get out of the business.”"
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,"Without the mills, people sought other places of employment in adjoining states or even other areas of the country."
0.4,0.5,0.5,Those that could afford to move did so; those that couldn’t afford to move mostly ended up on the streets.
0.3125,0.5,0.5625,"Without an industrial or a residential base, commerce shrank considerably."
0.5,0.4,0.5,"The very first thing that the workers could do was “to get up a petition to stop the shutdown,” says Ed Mann, a local union leader and organizer."
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.55,"The International chapter of the USWA had much more lobbying power, but they refused to support the local union members."
0.55,0.5,0.44999999999999996,"Next, workers decided to form the Ecumenical Coalition, an organization of local religious groups which spearheaded the attempt to reopen the Youngstown works."
0.35,0.6,0.4,"Although for other cities this would simply be a minor economic setback, for the people of Youngstown and the surrounding area, it meant disaster."
0.35,0.5,0.5,"Here, too, they were ignored."
0.4,0.5,0.6,"Immediately after the workers left the building, US steel representatives told the local union leaders that they had changed their minds and were no longer interested in allowing the workers to purchase the mill."
0.25,0.6,0.35,The Decline of the World Market
0.5,0.5,0.5,The efforts to save the mills failed partly because the international market for steel had largely dried up.
0.5,0.5,0.625,"In fact, American steel imports were beginning to outweigh exports."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.55,"You can mix them with a 30/30/40 mix of potting soil, worm casings and clay."
0.5,0.4,0.5,NOTE: Cover your work area.
0.35,0.5,0.65,3. Make bombs.
0.44999999999999996,0.35,0.6,Form the mix into balls of any size from sling-shot-pellet up to softball.
0.5,0.55,0.55,"Mine were more or less matzoh-ball size and shape, out of habit."
0.75,0.6675,0.6675,This worked out pretty well.
0.5,0.5,0.5,4. Throw.
0.5,0.6,0.6,The first responsibility should be driving safely.
0.25,0.5625,0.5,I ended up with a broken fingernail and dirt all over my lap.
0.65,0.6,0.55,"Also, a perfect strike."
0.5,0.5,0.44999999999999996,You want both tidiness and easy access.
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.44999999999999996,I made eight; the last two were totally pulverized after being jostled in a paper bag for half an hour.
0.5,0.4,0.5,It's chlorophyll graffiti.
0.5,0.5,0.55,"For example, make smaller wildflower seedbombs and carefully 'plant' them in a meridian by making holes in the ground with your heel and then gently tamping the dirt over them with your sole."
0.5,0.4,0.44999999999999996,'plant'
0.44999999999999996,0.4,0.55,"Earth is my friend, like that old classmate who you keep forgetting to drop a note to on Facebook."
0.6,0.5,0.55,You could get better soil if you put it on the shopping list.
0.65,0.65,0.7,But my actions accomplished something today.
0.6,0.5,0.5,"Thanks for commenting, Kate."
0.5,0.5,0.5,I used to see this old scary dude walking around checking the trees in Griffith Park for Dutch Elm Disease.
0.65,0.5,0.5,Thanks for making me remember him.
0.55,0.55,0.55,We are everywhere.
0.8500000000000001,0.7,0.5,Loved this!
0.6,0.44999999999999996,0.55,My wife and I did this when we lived in Texas ... planted blue bonnets in a state park.
0.30000000000000004,0.65,0.5,You will fuck it up .
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Jessica Reeder 15. Dec, 2009 at 9:08 am"
0.5,0.5,0.5,Live with this.
0.55,0.55,0.6,Embrace it.
0.65,0.44999999999999996,0.65,I take pictures and have ideas and enjoy my thoughts and try to do a little something less about consuming and more about redemption every day.
0.7,0.6,0.6,It makes me a little nicer.
0.5,0.4175,0.5,Gift seeds of California Poppy via Jessica Reeder's mom.
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,"Somewhere in California, a blighted, mosquito-vector abandoned property is about to get an echinacea dose via seedbomb."
0.5,0.5,0.5,Report criticises US press freedoms
0.35,0.6,0.5,North Africa feared as staging ground for terror
0.3325,0.4175,0.6675,Chvez threatens to jail violators of price controls
0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,Bush declares Iran's arms role in Iraq is certain
0.6,0.5,0.65,Iraqi sunni lands show new oil and gas promise
0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,"In the world of life-saving drugs, a growing epidemic of deadly fakes"
0.5,0.5,0.6,"Cheney starts visit to Japan, Australia"
0.5,0.5,0.5,China: Cheney shores up the trilateral alliance
0.35,0.5,0.44999999999999996,Iraq insurgents attack US base
0.30000000000000004,0.35,0.5,US soldiers die in day of violence
0.4175,0.4575,0.5,Iraqi suicide attack kills two US troops as militants fight purge
0.35,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,Japanese whaling ship won't accept help
0.5,0.4,0.5,Royal rescues presidential hopes with commanding performance
0.375,0.4175,0.5825,"Hicks first in line for trial, Bush says"
0.5,0.5,0.44999999999999996,Paris police investigate package at Canadian embassy
0.5,0.5,0.5,Iran vs. North Korea: not all enemies are equal
0.5,0.4,0.5,Catholic archbishop outlines Anglican merger hopes
0.55,0.6,0.6,"London is pace-setter on congestion toll, says mayor"
0.30000000000000004,0.6,0.5,Bombings say Muslim rebels won't negotiate
0.44999999999999996,0.6,0.44999999999999996,Beware of peanut butter pathogens
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.5,Committee debates cancer vaccine plan
0.5,0.5,0.5,1 mln birds to be vaccinated from bird flu near Moscow
0.35,0.5,0.44999999999999996,Bernard Matthews to lay off up to 500 workers
0.5,0.5,0.5,A shot in the arm
0.55,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,Thousands line up to get late flu shots
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.5,Health Canada issues advice on canned tuna
0.5,0.5,0.5,Cholesterol link in diabetes study
0.4175,0.4175,0.5,Sick hearts switch on a fetal gene
0.6,0.5,0.5,Foetal mechanism helps heart failure
0.6,0.6,0.55,Feeding your brain: new benefits found in chocolate
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.44999999999999996,Hungarian opposition calls for vote after violence escalates
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.5,AU regrets Sudan's expulsion of UN envoy
0.55,0.55,0.6,BellSouth says profit rises 30% on cingular earnings
0.5,0.5,0.5,Sony apologizes for battery recall
0.55,0.4,0.44999999999999996,Firefox 2.0 hits the Web
0.5,0.4375,0.5625,Oracle World opens with Dell unveiling AMD-powered computers
0.30000000000000004,0.65,0.44999999999999996,Merriman violation stuns ex-teammate
0.55,0.55,0.6,Arthurs upsets Robredo in first round at the St. Petersburg Open
0.4,0.5,0.55,Body Shop's Roddick has Hepatitis C
0.4175,0.4175,0.5,Violence continues at disputed holy site
0.5,0.55,0.6,Fortune: India the Superpower? Think again
0.5,0.35,0.5,"'Grey's,' 'Betty,' 'Scrubs' get boost"
0.5,0.5,0.55,"U.S. to allow 7,000 Iraqi refugees"
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.55,Women protest Pakistan demolition
0.4,0.65,0.5,Frustration rises as North Korea nuclear talks stall
0.5,0.5,0.5,Mickelson driving force at masters
0.5,0.30000000000000004,0.55,England opt for Bopara over Loye
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.5,Edwards' campaign blogger quits amid Catholic controversy
0.3125,0.625,0.6875,"Telecoms giant slashes 12,500 jobs"
0.75,0.5825,0.5,Air France KLM profit rises
0.55,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,King and queen reign at British film awards
0.4375,0.5625,0.5625,Thousands rally in Lebanon
0.5,0.5,0.5,Area should get 3-5 inches of snow today
0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,Sale of Chrysler possible
0.6,0.5,0.5,Naps are great for chaps
0.55,0.6,0.55,Martian Life Could Have Evaded Detection by Viking Landers
0.55,0.6,0.6,Female astronaut sets record
0.5,0.5,0.6,Tell your boss: Naps are good for you
0.5,0.4175,0.5825,Can North Korea be trusted?
0.5,0.5,0.5,Astronaut's arrest tests NASA's mettle
0.55,0.4,0.5,Man gets second chance at space ride
0.5,0.55,0.5,Weekly Nielsen will 'Lost' find its way back?
0.5,0.625,0.625,New York City may ban iPods while crossing street
0.5,0.55,0.55,Vista's hyped security will be tested
0.35,0.55,0.4,Mogadishu residents flee blasts
0.5825,0.5825,0.5825,"'WarioWare,' Wii make perfect fit"
0.5,0.5,0.5,Full details of the EU report on Iran
0.55,0.5,0.5,Work starts on Arctic seed vault
0.375,0.5,0.5,"Northeaster cancels flights, shuts schools"
0.30000000000000004,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,Chrysler's Valentine's Day massacre
0.25,0.5,0.5,Auto show canceled
0.5,0.55,0.5,On-the-job naps might cut heart risk
0.5,0.55,0.5,Champion Murray too good for Kim
0.5,0.5,0.5,Who's going to win at the Grammys?
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.5,Breakup rings find new homes
0.4,0.4,0.5,Gronholm ahead as Solberg crashes
0.25,0.5,0.44999999999999996,Sex torture claims hit Russia army
0.4175,0.5,0.5,Anna Nicole Smith fans mourn in cyberspace
0.55,0.5,0.5,Flu Vaccine Appears Safe for Young Children
0.55,0.4,0.5,Wilkinson sets record in tame win
0.6,0.5,0.55,Army engineers say dam safe
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.5,Creating a whole album in a month?
0.55,0.55,0.6,Malaysia launches tourism campaign
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.55,Study: Africa's Internet gap getting wider
0.30000000000000004,0.4,0.55,Salmonella outbreak traced to peanut butter
0.5,0.5,0.55,"Nuke detectors to ring New York, official says"
0.5825,0.5,0.5,Study: On-the-job naps might help heart
0.5,0.55,0.5,Teacher's porn conviction sparks tech debate
0.5,0.4,0.44999999999999996,Singapore pampers its waterfront promenade
0.2,0.55,0.55,South Korea fire kills 10 foreigners
0.6,0.55,0.6,U.S. commander: Iraq not hopeless
0.5,0.6,0.6,Mardi Gras rebound in the offing for New Orleans?
0.65,0.55,0.5,Siestas may cut heart disease risk
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.55,"Oregon snorkeler mistaken for rodent, shot in face"
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.5,Sharks kill four people in 'dull' year
0.55,0.65,0.5,Record-shattering day on Wall St.
0.4,0.6,0.75,Comedian says government silences critics
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Rice, in Baghdad, Insists That Iraqis Are"
0.6,0.55,0.55,Messi makes Barcelona squad return
0.35,0.5,0.5,Jump reported in accidental drug-overdose deaths
0.3125,0.5625,0.5625,Outdated baby food found on shelves
0.44999999999999996,0.4,0.65,Bush: It's time for Congress to back energy plan
0.5,0.5,0.5,Toshiba Portege R400
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Higley, Gonzalez lead in Malaysia"
0.5,0.55,0.6,North Korea gets 'money and respect'
0.6,0.55,0.6,Beyonce in a bikini as SI's swimsuit cover model
0.5,0.5,0.5,Tiempo Libre has Grammy dreams
0.5,0.4175,0.4175,Updates on world's top stories
0.6,0.6,0.5,Breast cancer drug promises hope
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,YouTube yields surprising payback
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,Werder make 10-man Ajax pay price
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,Survey: Tech a tool in teen dating abuse
0.75,0.7,0.65,The breast cancer breakthrough saving 1000 women a year
0.5,0.5,0.5825,"Tourist spot resists gravity, but not progress"
0.3125,0.5625,0.5,BA to charge $470 for an extra bag
0.5,0.5,0.5,Appeal by Chinese Researcher for Times May Soon Be Heard
0.75,0.5825,0.5825,New cancer drug to save a thousand lives a year
0.5,0.5,0.44999999999999996,"Jet flips in snowstorm, none dead"
0.5,0.375,0.5,A Mix of Oil and Environmentalism
0.55,0.4,0.5,YouTube founders split $650M payout
0.44999999999999996,0.6,0.55,Immigrants and French Reach Deal in Standoff
0.5,0.4175,0.5,Beyonce new SI bikini cover girl
0.55,0.44999999999999996,0.55,"Roddick, Murray score in San Jose"
0.5,0.5,0.5,Apple trademark dispute settled
0.35,0.5,0.44999999999999996,Ex-pastor gets death sentence
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.5,"New Indonesia Calamity, a Mud Bath, Is Man-Made"
0.4,0.35,0.6,Bad reasons to be good
0.5,0.55,0.5,U.N. Force Is Treading Lightly on Lebanese Soil
0.5,0.3325,0.5,Military Officials Add to U.S. Criticism of Iraq's Government
0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,0.55,Cooking Defines Sephardic Jews at Sukkot
0.65,0.6,0.55,Dow flirts with record highs again
0.4,0.55,0.55,'Deep regret' for ex-HP exec
0.55,0.55,0.5,'Opportunity' knocks on geologist's dream crater
0.35,0.55,0.5,Squirrel jumps boy in park; rabies suspected
0.375,0.5,0.4375,We're a pretty kind 'bully'
0.4,0.5,0.44999999999999996,Slain Amish girls laid to rest
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.55,Stars scuffle on 'Grey's Anatomy'
0.7,0.55,0.44999999999999996,Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes set wedding date
0.65,0.65,0.6,Madonna files adoption papers
0.5,0.4375,0.5625,Ex-JonBenet suspect: Child porn case dropped
0.44999999999999996,0.6,0.4,Kidnapped AP photographer freed in Gaza
0.55,0.4,0.5,"Cher's dress, car, bed have new owners"
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.5,Ex-Virginia gov not running for president
0.375,0.5,0.5625,"Dad locked up son, watched on TV, police say"
0.5,0.4,0.5,Madonna files adoption papers in Malawi
0.6875,0.6875,0.5625,"$10,000 poetry prize awarded"
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.5,Hurricane Paul Weakens To Tropical Storm
0.4175,0.5,0.5,Italy drops Sicily bridge plans
0.5,0.5,0.55,Pamuk wins Nobel Literature prize
0.35,0.55,0.55,Who are you calling fat?
0.7,0.65,0.6,Three found alive from missing Russian ship -report
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.5,Sudan urges UN to replace its special envoy
0.5,0.5,0.5,Pair of Satellites Will Document Sun in 3-D
0.5,0.55,0.5,Diplomat acknowledges US arrogance in Iraq
0.35,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,More Human Remains Found at Ground Zero
0.44999999999999996,0.6,0.55,Tensions as Hungary marks uprising
0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,0.5,"Chefs not counting calories, study finds"
0.5,0.5,0.5,Schuey sees Ferrari unveil new car
0.30000000000000004,0.55,0.5,Diabetic waits months for eyeglasses
0.4175,0.5825,0.5825,Israel insists on Lebanon overflights
0.5,0.4,0.5,"Ozzy, a Hero for the hard-rocking masses"
0.6,0.5,0.55,Dance movie takes over No. 1
0.5,0.6,0.5,Male sweat boosts women's hormone levels
0.5,0.5,0.55,US Airways boosts bid for Delta
0.4,0.55,0.5,"Turner pays for Boston ""bombing"""
0.4,0.5,0.5,Two detained in body parts mailing
0.5,0.35,0.55,Essay: about that mean streak of yours: psychiatry can do only so much
0.5,0.4375,0.5,Sarkozy heads for clash in cartoons row
0.30000000000000004,0.30000000000000004,0.55,Global web of suspects in child-rape download
0.55,0.55,0.55,Blake defeats Moya to retain title
0.6,0.6,0.6,India's Taj Mahal gets facelift
0.5,0.4,0.5,Cheney to Congress: Can't run Iraq war by committee
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.5,Fortune: Looking beyond the iPhone
0.35,0.55,0.44999999999999996,"Iraq car bombings kill 22 People, wound more than 60"
0.6,0.55,0.55,'Stomp' steps to No. 1 at box office
0.55,0.5,0.55,"Seahawks, Bears vie for shot at NFL title"
0.55,0.5,0.5,EU will urge China to go green
0.30000000000000004,0.55,0.35,Teacher charged with sex assault
0.5625,0.5625,0.5625,Amateur rocket scientists reach for space
0.5,0.55,0.44999999999999996,Israelis retaliate after attack by Lebanese Army
0.6,0.55,0.55,"More sleep, healthier slimmer children"
0.3325,0.5425,0.5425,"Walters on Trump: 'Poor, pathetic man'"
0.5,0.6,0.5,"Ice storm smacks roads, power"
0.25,0.35,0.44999999999999996,Deaths linked to flu vaccine
0.4,0.44999999999999996,0.5,Ice storm coating Midwest
0.3125,0.625,0.5,Israel admits using phosphorous shells in Lebanon
0.5,0.5,0.55,Federer overcomes a ragged start
0.5,0.5,0.5,Park stars as United maintain lead
0.5,0.4,0.5,India's famous landmark gets facelift
0.30000000000000004,0.5,0.35,Participant in water-drinking contest dies
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.65,Apple drops bombshell with iPhone
0.5,0.5,0.5,Apple to Vista upgraders: 'Wait'
0.5,0.55,0.55,Studios sign off on movie downloads
0.4175,0.5,0.5825,Somalia declares state of emergency
0.5,0.5,0.5,Doctors Seeing Patients Who Think They're Internet Addicted
0.5,0.5,0.55,An iPhone by any other name? Surely not
0.55,0.5,0.5,"Easy ways to (really) save $400,000"
0.44999999999999996,0.55,0.4,Rig-threat cargo ship towed ashore
0.4,0.55,0.5,Vital Signs: Hazards: Antidepressant linked to fractures in older people
0.5,0.5,0.55,Space life search turns to TV
0.44999999999999996,0.55,0.6,"Super Bowl ads of cartoonish violence, perhaps reflecting toll of war"
0.44999999999999996,0.6,0.44999999999999996,Republicans plan to block Iraq debate
0.44999999999999996,0.55,0.5,Gently Weeps' lyrics sheet up for sale
0.25,0.5625,0.3125,Gunmen abduct Filipino woman in Nigeria
0.55,0.55,0.5,Guy sweat is babe magnet
0.5825,0.5825,0.6675,Township tourism booming in South Africa
0.5,0.5,0.5,PLO ministers agreed upon in Mecca
0.55,0.55,0.65,Friendly fire pilot 'experienced'
0.55,0.6,0.6,Iran's president urges higher birth rate
0.4,0.5,0.44999999999999996,"Congolese soldiers riot, loot over pay issue"
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,Commodities lead Europe higher
0.55,0.5,0.5,Apple set for massive market gains
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Hamas, Fatah return to unity gov't talks in Mecca"
0.2,0.6,0.4,7 Die As US Helicopter Crashes in Iraq
0.25,0.6,0.44999999999999996,Millionaire secret Santa dies
0.625,0.625,0.625,Morrissey may cheer up Eurovision
0.5,0.5,0.5,Passing exchange becomes political flashpoint
0.5,0.5,0.55,Police probe 2 church fires half mile apart
0.44999999999999996,0.6,0.55,Tumor Types May Explain Survival Rates for Cancer
0.44999999999999996,0.35,0.6,"Even before its release, world climate report is criticized as too optimistic"
0.4175,0.5825,0.3325,"Second hanging also went awry, Iraq tape shows"
0.5,0.5825,0.5,Howell takes one shot lead in Sony Open
0.4,0.30000000000000004,0.4,"Pap Test, a mainstay against cervical cancer, may be fading"
0.5825,0.25,0.5,"On MySpace, girls seek friends, boys flirt"
0.25,0.6675,0.4175,Tests of drug to block H.I.V. infection are halted over safety
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.5,Beckham 'won't play again for Real'
0.55,0.55,0.5,Eight years for Damilola killers
0.5,0.5,0.5,PC World editor slain at California home
0.4175,0.5825,0.5825,Hands on 'Doomsday Clock' move forward
0.5,0.5,0.44999999999999996,Zach Braff says he has 'mild depression'
0.4,0.44999999999999996,0.5,Investigation of child porn site hits 77 nations USA Today
0.8125,0.75,0.6875,News Baby pandas! Baby pandas! Baby pandas!
0.5,0.55,0.5,Secret hotels in Irish countryside
0.6,0.55,0.55,Fine wines in British Columbia
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.44999999999999996,Eye on cosmos is lost to short circuit on hubble
0.5,0.5,0.5625,Unilever group names new chairman
0.3125,0.5625,0.5,Minister slams airlines on carbon
0.6,0.44999999999999996,0.5,Rare optimism as North Korea talks reach crossroads
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.5,China's 'nightmare scenario'
0.5,0.55,0.55,Annual diving contest in South Korea proves a chilly challenge
0.6,0.5,0.6,Wellcome awards anti-fat research
0.4375,0.4375,0.4375,What Newsom faces in aftermath of scandal
0.4,0.55,0.55,"Freed Muslim terror suspect says Britain is ""police state"""
0.5,0.5,0.5,Google to unveil election mashup
0.5,0.5,0.5,Mistrial for officer who refused to go to Iraq
0.4,0.6,0.44999999999999996,Subway collapse caught on camera
0.4175,0.6675,0.5,Stinky but true: men's sweat is made for love
0.6,0.5,0.44999999999999996,"POLITICS-US: reprieve for officer who denounced ""Immoral War"""
0.3125,0.625,0.5625,"Sri Lanka floods displace 60,000"
0.5,0.5,0.5,Israel says hopes to keep Lebanon border calm
0.375,0.5,0.5825,"Carter was a disaster, said Ford"
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,European shares hit fresh highs
0.5,0.5,0.5,"For women, nothing's like the smell of men's sweat"
0.55,0.55,0.5,'Bookworm Adventures' wordsmith's joy
0.5,0.5,0.5,Leo battles himself
0.4,0.55,0.6,Attorneys point fingers in fight between Ryan O'Neal and son
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,John Grisham set for court drama
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.5,"Bill Gates and Craig Mundie: vista is Secure, employees are not"
0.55,0.55,0.55,Male sweat boosts women's hormone levels
0.4,0.55,0.55,"Israeli, Lebanese clash on border"
0.5,0.5,0.5,"A small part of the brain, and its profound effects"
0.5,0.6875,0.6875,Internet boom in China is built on virtual fun
0.5,0.4375,0.5625,Lebo: A life lived on the edge
0.4375,0.5625,0.5625,Russia to strengthen its military muscle
0.5825,0.5425,0.5425,"New vaccine for cervical cancer could prove useful in men, too"
0.44999999999999996,0.6,0.6,US to prod NATO allies for more troops to defeat Taliban
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.5,Microsoft supports OpenID authentication standard
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.55,"Indonesia may sell, not give, bird flu virus to scientists"
0.55,0.55,0.6,Europe retain trophy with big win
0.30000000000000004,0.5,0.5,"Indonesia flood forces 340,000 from homes"
0.30000000000000004,0.55,0.6,Ice storm brings chaos in U.S.
0.6,0.6,0.5,Prehistoric Romeo and Juliet discovered
0.4,0.6,0.5,Iran to Hit US Interests if Attacked
0.375,0.4175,0.5,Carrefour sales growth falls short
0.55,0.55,0.55,"Nipple covers, other star secrets"
0.4175,0.5,0.4175,Smokestacks in a white wilderness divide Iceland
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.55,That'll cost ya
0.5,0.5,0.5,Barbaro's legacy: saving other horses
0.3325,0.5825,0.5,Ice storms kill 21 across nation
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,De Villiers takes over Dakar lead
0.5625,0.5625,0.4375,Vietnam becomes WTO's 150th member
0.5,0.75,0.55,Why the smell of a man's armpit is a turn-on
0.5,0.5,0.5,Nokia 5300 Xpress Music
0.5,0.5,0.5825,"In Egypt, Rice speaks softly"
0.6,0.5,0.5,Full recovery expected for marathon winner
0.5,0.55,0.5,North Korea ready to discuss nuke disarmament
0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,0.6,Nadal wants Australian Open crown
0.5,0.5,0.55,Study detects a gene linked to Alzheimer's
0.55,0.65,0.55,Panda cub makes her debut
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.6,"Venezuela, Iran fight U.S. dominance"
0.65,0.65,0.44999999999999996,Blog: Here come the Globes!
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,Questions on credit card safety
0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,Tsunami fears ease after quake
0.25,0.5,0.5,At least 130 die as blast levels Baghdad market
0.5,0.35,0.44999999999999996,New McCain team made attack ads he once faulted
0.4,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,No e-Book for Harry Potter VII
0.5,0.4,0.4,Budapest calm after night of violent protests
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.44999999999999996,Israel weighs old city project webcast
0.25,0.6,0.4,Indonesian bird flu deaths hit 61
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.44999999999999996,Teen hacks Venezuelan government Web sites
0.5,0.4,0.5,"Russia plans new ICBMs, nuclear subs"
0.5,0.4375,0.5625,What the Godfather of Soul meant to me
0.4,0.55,0.5,"""Sarah McGrath, the editor at Riverhead who worked with Ms. Seltzer for three years on the book, said she was stunned to discover that the author had lied."""
0.55,0.6,0.6,"“Invariably,”"
0.4375,0.5,0.5625,"“a black-themed book will come up for consideration, and there won’t be anyone of color to put in an opinion, or there’ll be one, who shouldn’t bear the burden alone. So we all pretend we’re experts. Maybe I’m the only one who’s embarrassed by that.”"
0.44999999999999996,0.55,0.5,"First the holocaust survivor who said she was literally raised by wolves turns out to be just a regular, if depressed, person."
0.5,0.4175,0.5,"Comment #1, by carleen"
0.55,0.6,0.55,I read that article in the Times and IMMEDIATELY thought it was going to be a hoax.
0.44999999999999996,0.4,0.55,"But then I thought, surely after all the others, she had been vetted to heaven and back."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"March 3, 2008 11:20 PM"
0.5,0.3325,0.5,"March 3, 2008 11:43 PM"
0.5,0.5,0.5,I wonder why they didn't present their books as novels.
0.5,0.35,0.44999999999999996,Tayari's Blog: There's A Sucker Born Every Minute
0.4,0.5,0.55,She chronicled her experiences making drug deliveries for gang leaders at age 13 and how she was given her first gun as a birthday present when she was 14.
0.4,0.65,0.6,"Ms. Seltzer told The Times last week, “One of the first things I did once I started making drug money was to buy a burial plot.”"
0.55,0.65,0.6,"""Why is that more desirable than what you write today?"""
0.5,0.625,0.375,"Why do you ask?"""
0.5425,0.4175,0.5425,"""So at its heart, then, your writing – as opposed to working otherwise – is for yourself?"""
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.55,"""Your writing is for you, Allan, not for the publishers or some imagined audience."
0.5,0.55,0.55,"Since you seem unable to write 'normally,' why not embrace your tales as they are, leave behind the one unhappiness in the art you admit is a source of pleasure?"
0.5,0.4175,0.5,"He had filled his pen and raised it, the nib descending towards the paper, before the sound came: the gentle, persistent tapping of the gnarled, primeval willow touching the window with long, insistent fingers."
0.5,0.4375,0.5625,Arthur looked up from the results of a night’s frenzied labors and looked Allan in the eye.
0.5,0.5,0.5825,"""I decided that… since I wasn't having much success with more – traditional – stories, I might see what sort of work I produced if I let my imagination go freely,"""
0.35,0.8500000000000001,0.65,"""What in G-d's name could have possessed you to do such a thing,"" cried Arthur, nearly raising his voice."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.5,"He shook the papers at Allan, raising them like a belt above the head of a disobedient son."
0.65,0.5,0.5,"Besides, the public liked a good, simple romance."
0.375,0.5425,0.375,"""Then why,"""
0.4175,0.5825,0.5825,"He glared at Allan, eyes impaling him and demanding a response."
0.5,0.55,0.55,"A tree forced you to write this, my dear Mr. Clemm?"
0.5,0.55,0.55,"He then turned and left through the door opposite that Arthur had taken, making his way past his host's doorman without assistance and setting off on foot towards Nathan's residence, several miles away."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Opening a side drawer, he took out a piece of paper and his inkpot."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.5,"""So,"""
0.30000000000000004,0.55,0.55,"""you don't think it's a waste of ink and paper, a futile expedition into morbidity or literary debauchery?"""
0.55,0.44999999999999996,0.5,"It speaks to the deepest storyteller's instinct within us all, yet is entirely original."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"He felt now that perhaps Nathan was right; although the man was somewhat peculiar, he had both an unimpeachable honesty and a certain propensity for insight."
0.4175,0.5825,0.5,"As Allan drew closer, he distinguished a new cloud, a pillar rising directly ahead; a road of smoke ascended in the west, its source hidden by the very hillock that concealed his house from the traveler until one had nearly reached its door."
0.5,0.4,0.55,"Allan's thoughts fled as one, scattering on the breeze that scattered the warning plume."
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.55,The driver snapped the reins and set the horses on.
0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,0.5,"It was a moment before he realized what else had changed: near the wall, beneath his window, was a stump with black and ancient bark."
0.5,0.6675,0.5825,"His thoughts were not of the act's futility, nor even of the nights spent tormented by the twisted thing; instead, all that filled his mind was the tree's constant presence in his life, growing with him and beside him, its persistent reminders that he had higher, truer things to write, the simple beauty of the great black tree for its own sake."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Indeed, if he still could not, he could at any time follow Arthur's advice and seek a profession more grounded in reality."
0.5,0.55,0.5,Perhaps that would be more healthy for his mind.
0.55,0.55,0.55,"Before him, roots imbibing the sweet water of the stream, grew a stand of black willows."
0.4,0.4,0.5,"Though the elders' trunks fell and died, their children, first roots grown from the very branches that now lay dead, continued unabated, a continuous line from the most ancient of their ancestors."
0.30000000000000004,0.6,0.4,"The great, jaundiced eye stared down unblinkingly at the author, who gazed up through his window's tiny frame with trepidation."
0.375,0.625,0.4375,"After all that – so near the end, to lose control again."
0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,0.5,"The New England woods disappeared, even the greatest pines shrinking to insignificance as they mounted the sky."
0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,"Shall I never finish a story in peace?"""
0.5,0.5,0.5,"""How is the writing these days, my dear Mr. Clemm?"""
0.55,0.55,0.55,"""Before that blasted impulse came over me and I started writing like Edgar Poe – though the most recent was not so morbid as my many others, thank Heaven."""
0.5,0.5,0.5,"""I'm not familiar with Mr. Poe's works, but I assume you're referring to your unhealthy penchant for the fantastic."""
0.5,0.5,0.6,"""It's far from a 'penchant,' Arthur."
0.5,0.5,0.5,The Black Willow
0.35,0.55,0.55,"""I'm sure you know that you must curb this behavior if you wish to produce any writing fit for public consumption."""
0.4,0.35,0.5,"""but how am I to do that?"
0.3325,0.5,0.5825,"You know I do not wish to make my stories thus; but it is my nemesis, confronting me anew at every turn!"""
0.35,0.5,0.5,"""that I would not dream of submitting one of these corruptions of literature to any publisher."
0.55,0.65,0.7,"""I would drive it out,"""
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.6,"""Perhaps you require a rest from writing,"" suggested Arthur."
0.4375,0.5,0.5625,"""Perhaps it would,"" Allan replied, rising and vainly straightening his suit."
0.44999999999999996,0.35,0.55,"He walked the wheel-ruts, hands in his pockets and unshined shoes collecting dust."
0.55,0.6,0.5,"Some quarter-mile from Arthur's gate, he halted, confronted by a halloo."
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.55,he called out to the empty road.
0.5825,0.5825,0.5,"Nathan's lanky frame, dressed in a loose, tan jacket, fit into the branch like an elegant skeleton."
0.5,0.375,0.5625,"""how goes life for the quintessential American author?"""
0.6,0.65,0.5,"""Yes, it is finished!"
0.4,0.55,0.55,"You know just as well as I that they have no future, no potential."
0.5,0.5,0.55,"After hemming and hawing and assessing my food stash (contents: 10 saltines), I decided to go for it anyway."
0.375,0.5,0.4375,"By the time I got to Asheville, I was nearing the end of my journey and the bottom of my wallet."
0.6,0.5,0.5,"I've visited plenty of farm-to-fork restaurants, and this one may be the best I've seen at self-marketing."
0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,0.55,"Some of that is surely due to good marketing, but the real reason for its popularity is this:"
0.5,0.5,0.6,"The potatoes were light and un-greasy; the flavors were perfectly balanced; the chicken was juicy and rich; and let's be honest here, I'm always happier eating dead animals when I know they've lived a good life."
0.5,0.5,0.5625,I stopped so I could take the rest home and taste it again later.
0.55,0.44999999999999996,0.5,"On another topic, I made a discovery there in the Tupelo Honey Cafe, one which I'd like to share with you now."
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.4,"No sooner had I taken the above photo, when a server (not even my server) appeared at my elbow."
0.5,0.5,0.5,But.
0.5,0.5,0.65,"But wow, it sure improved once I appeared to be some sort of food critic or travel writer."
0.55,0.55,0.55,"Which, it just so happens, I am."
0.55,0.55,0.65,"But even if you're not, try this out sometime."
0.75,0.5825,0.5,Everybody wins.
0.6,0.5,0.5,"Next stop: sunny Tennessee, where I get down on The Farm."
0.5,0.5,0.5,Low international airfare is also available.
0.4375,0.5,0.625,All schedules and itineraries are subject to change.
0.5,0.5,0.5,"When Andrew decided to leave town for a few years' schooling in NYC, friends and cohorts took over operations."
0.55,0.5,0.5,Remember when you got your first bike?
0.5,0.5,0.5,"When I visited the TBR shop, it was packed with frames, wheels, gears, chains, handlebars, kids, and anarchist art (the space is being donated by some supporters who are also anti-capitalist activists)."
0.55,0.55,0.55,"Tools are available, and volunteers will help with advice and knowledge."
0.44999999999999996,0.4,0.55,"Was it a Christmas present, or maybe a birthday gift?"
0.55,0.55,0.55,"The main focus of TBR, however, is not selling bikes."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.55,"All around me, college students and bike punks tinkered with their machines."
0.5,0.55,0.55,"And as we left at the end of the workshop, a woman walked up to Andrew."
0.6,0.6,0.6,"""I have a whole bunch of bikes to give you."""
0.55,0.55,0.55,"These collectives are not waiting for change to happen: they're creating it through small, positive, peaceful actions."
0.55,0.44999999999999996,0.55,Try This at Home: Ride Around
0.55,0.8,0.6,"So pick one up, and ride it to the end of your block!"
0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,0.6,"Even if your life requires four wheels, you can use a bike for local errands."
0.5,0.5,0.5625,"Tell the store owner what you like, and see if he'll carry it."
0.4,0.6,0.44999999999999996,"Raggedy Annarchy 01. Oct, 2009 at 12:59 pm"
0.55,0.55,0.65,"But I'm here to tell you: riding your bike is still fun, and still fast, and it's the cheapest and most socially responsible workout you'll ever get ."
0.4,0.44999999999999996,0.65,Fall is exactly 79% more tingly when experienced by bike.
0.5,0.5,0.5,This post is the first of a three-part series on bike culture.
0.625,0.5,0.5,"He's somewhat of a man brain trust , and one of his best creations is the Troy Bike Rescue ."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.55,But farming on the Outer Cape is the sort of Sisyphian challenge that can wear anybody out.
0.5,0.5,0.44999999999999996,It's always been this way in North Truro.
0.5,0.4175,0.5,"This was called ""salt marsh haying""."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.5,"Salt marsh hay has no weed seeds, and it doesn't compact as heavily as other types of hay."
0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,"""There's so much oxygen in this soil, any added compost gets burned up in six weeks. All the nutrients get depleted."""
0.3325,0.4175,0.5,"All the nutrients get depleted."""
0.55,0.55,0.55,The only way to keep things going here is to keep a steady flow of compost coming in.
0.5,0.5,0.4375,"It worked -- but it cost money, and it disappeared fast into the hungry ground."
0.5,0.55,0.5,"With his long hair, scruffy beard and t-shirt, he'd fit in more at a Phish show than behind a plow."
0.44999999999999996,0.4,0.6,"You can't squeeze blood from a stone, and you can't get big vegetable crops from sand dunes."
0.55,0.55,0.5,David isn't alone: he's got the support (and companionship) of a growing group of gamechangers.
0.55,0.55,0.55,Their main opponent?
0.5,0.5825,0.5,"But appearances are deceiving, and David's comfy mien belies a passion that is influencing the culture of northern Cape Cod."
0.5,0.4,0.44999999999999996,"2 Responses to ""Farming on Sand"""
0.5,0.5625,0.5,You know they could. It would be even better for the system.
0.55,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,They wouldn't have to be standing on the acidic sand all of the time.
0.65,0.55,0.55,"To wit: in 2009, David helped launch the Truro Ag Fair -- an event that exceeded all expectations and brought huge crowds to local farmers' booths."
0.5,0.5,0.5,It's tough to kill the vampire...genre
0.5,0.55,0.5,Ninja Warrior is one of the most popular shows on G4.
0.35,0.7,0.65,"""get off"""
0.55,0.5,0.5,These archetypes seem different to me than other 'trends'.
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.5,"All you can do is hope you bat .300 and that when you fail, you fail fast ."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.5,"Publishers, producers, editors, TV execs, they all have to calibrate their decisions based on so many factors, and yet even with access to sophisticated data it often comes down to human factors."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Surely the Vampire was dead after the spoof, ""Love at First Bite "" in 1979."
0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,0.5,"How soon is now? ""Blog Archive"""
0.5625,0.6875,0.5625,A gut instinct that something is going to work.
0.55,0.55,0.5,"Hey, if they can make Aliens and Cowboys , anything is possible."
0.5,0.35,0.44999999999999996,"Zombie Ninja Pirates, by Gozer Games, is a quick 20-30 minute card game for 2-6 players."
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0.5,0.5,0.44999999999999996,Kitchen Equipment.
0.5,0.55,0.5,Department stores sell all sorts of intriguing kitchen equipment.
0.44999999999999996,0.4,0.44999999999999996,"For European imports, you will pay top dollar."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"While it’s no longer the bargain shopping destination it once was, there are still some good buys to be had."
0.5,0.375,0.375,"Whatever you buy, you may be able to work out a discount."
0.5,0.5,0.5,Tailoring.
0.625,0.5,0.5,"If you want to learn something about tea, go to the Tea Shop at 149 Hollywood Road, or the Moon Garden Tea House at 5 Hoi Ping Road, Causeway Bay."
0.625,0.625,0.5,Entertainment
0.5825,0.5,0.5,"Other performance centers are the City Hall cultural complex, with exhibition halls and theaters that present concerts, plays, and films; the Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts with two major theaters for dance, drama, and concert performances; and the Hong Kong Arts Centre in Wan Chai, where both local and visiting groups perform."
0.5825,0.5,0.5825,"Although the music may seem strange to the unaccustomed ear, it certainly won’t put you to sleep; cymbals and drums guarantee your alertness."
0.55,0.44999999999999996,0.5,"The classic Chinese puppet is the shadow puppet, manipulated behind a screen by three rods, but hand puppet and marionette shows are also on offer, often for free at public parks and playgrounds."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.55,"Always ask for a receipt that records information about the item, and if you buy an antique, be sure to get a certificate of authentication."
0.5,0.5,0.5,Pubs are numerous.
0.6,0.4,0.44999999999999996,"The clubs and bars of Wan Chai, long the center of seedy nightlife, have become almost respectable."
0.5625,0.5625,0.4375,"TOTT’s, in the Excelsior Hotel, is a restaurant with live music and dancing and a harbor view."
0.55,0.5,0.5,There are evening bus tours that include visits to a restaurant and night spots; some tours combine a Chinese banquet with a visit to an open-air market and the panorama from Victoria Peak.
0.5,0.4,0.55,"The large department stores have fixed prices, but elsewhere you should ask whether there is a discount, especially if you buy several items in one shop."
0.5,0.4375,0.5625,"HKTA offers lessons in these exercises that improve concentration and balance at Garden Plaza, Hong Kong Park, Admiralty (Tel. 2058 1234)."
0.6,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,Hong Kong has many attractions that appeal to children of all ages.
0.5,0.5,0.5,"A ride on the Peak Tram is sure to provide a thrill, and in the Peak Tower they’ll enjoy the Peak Explorer ride and Ripley’s Believe it or Not! Ocean Park (see page 32) is popular with children of all ages."
0.65,0.55,0.55,There’s a special Kid’s World that those under 12 can enter free when accompanied by a paying adult.
0.4375,0.5,0.5,"If, after concluding a deal, you try to pay with a credit card, he may then boost the price in order to cover the card charges."
0.5,0.4175,0.4175,Department Stores.
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Look for Lane Crawford Ltd., an upscale store with branches at Pacific Place, 70 Queen’s Road, and Harbour City; Wing On, one of the oldest in Hong Kong; Marks and Spencer; and the Japanese department stores, Mitsukoshi, Sobo, and Seibu."
0.5,0.35,0.55,Hong Kong is full of giant malls.
0.5,0.4375,0.5625,Markets are the places to use your bargaining skills.
0.6,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,"Every conceivable kind of goods is sold here: clothing, all kinds of electronics, CDs, souvenirs, crafts, and jewelry."
0.55,0.55,0.55,Antiques.
0.5,0.35,0.44999999999999996,Hollywood Road in the Mid-Levels above Central is the most famous antiques street in Hong Kong.
0.5,0.5,0.5,Custom-made garments by skillful Hong Kong tailors are still much in demand and cost less than elsewhere for comparable garments.
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Photo buffs know that Hong Kong is the place to buy some of the world’s most advanced photographic equipment, and there are some real bargains around."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Two reliable places to start looking in Lan Kwai Fong are Photo Scientific in the Eurasia Building and Hing Lee Camera Company, 25 Lyndhurst Terrace."
0.5,0.5,0.5,Hong Kong is a mecca for Chinese hand-knotted wool carpets and silk rugs.
0.55,0.44999999999999996,0.5,Hong Kong’s stores are usually able to arrange shipment.
0.6,0.6,0.55,Caravan at 65 Hollywood Road and the shops in The Silk Road at Ocean Center in Tsim Sha Tsui are good places to start looking.
0.65,0.55,0.6,"In antiques shops, look for highly valued porcelains from China."
0.4375,0.5,0.5625,Prices on electronics have risen in the past two years; check prices at home before you buy here.
0.44999999999999996,0.35,0.55,Rattan furniture is highly popular.
0.55,0.55,0.55,Hollywood Road has several furniture shops.
0.55,0.55,0.55,Popular purchases include diamonds and freshwater pearls.
0.5,0.3325,0.5825,"The statues in the main shrine represent Man, the god of literature, and Mo, the god of war, a curious juxtaposition."
0.5,0.5,0.6,"Go down one flight of steps to Lascar Row, popularly known as Cat Street, for more antiques and curio shops."
0.55,0.6,0.55,"The interesting Edwardian building was formerly the Pathological Institute, founded to combat the 19th century’s 30-year-long outbreak of bubonic plague."
0.55,0.55,0.6,"The old laboratory is still intact, and there are exhibits on Chinese pharmacology and the history of medicine in Hong Kong."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"On Wan Chai’s Bowen Road, Maiden’s Rock, also called Lover’s Rock, is the gathering place for the annual Maiden’s festival."
0.6,0.65,0.5,"A prosperous tourist district, it is full of shopping centers and department stores, along with a number of good restaurants."
0.55,0.55,0.5,"Across Gloucester Road, opposite the World Trade Centre, is the Noonday Gun, which under British rule was sounded on the stroke of midday."
0.65,0.44999999999999996,0.55,"Silent for a time, the tradition has been revived and is a tourist attraction."
0.5,0.5,0.44999999999999996,It’s not clear how the custom started.
0.5,0.5,0.5,"As a result, the merchants were forced to limit their salvoes to one a day — and from then on, they signaled the noon hour daily for all to hear."
0.5,0.4175,0.5,"On the eastern side of Victoria Park on Causeway Road is Tin Hau Temple, dedicated to Tin Hau, the Taoist Queen of Heaven and patroness of seafarers."
0.44999999999999996,0.6,0.5,Originally the temple was on the shore but reclamation projects have now left it high and dry.
0.5625,0.4375,0.5625,Inland from the bay is Happy Valley.
0.6,0.55,0.55,"Hong Kong’s gamblers are so eager to play the horses that, despite the opening of a bigger and better racetrack at Sha Tin, the Happy Valley Racecourse is thriving."
0.5,0.6,0.5,"A half-hour tour costs HK$50; pay at the end, or the driver may cut your trip short."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"The Oceanarium is said to be the largest in the world, and the Ocean Theatre features displays by dolphins, killer whales, seals, and pelicans."
0.6,0.6,0.55,"An enormous roller-coaster rising way above the sea, space wheels, and high-diving shows guarantee a day of excitement."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"The next inlet is Repulse Bay, a roomy, sandy crescent, with green hills."
0.5,0.5,0.55,The waterfronts at Repulse Bay and Stanley are lined with good cafés and restaurants.
0.5425,0.4175,0.5825,"If you walk east on the Star Ferry terminal concourse, you will find yourself on the wonderful Promenade, which begins at the clock tower, all that remains of the once grand Kowloon-Canton Railway Terminus."
0.5,0.5,0.5,The waterfront here offers unparalled views of the harbor and Hong Kong Island.
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.65,"Hong Kong’s major venue for the performing arts, the building has been criticized for its fortress-like architecture and windowless façade."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Just east of the Star Ferry terminal, you’ll come to City Hall."
0.5,0.55,0.5,"No longer a center of government, it now functions as a cultural center."
0.5,0.5,0.5,The Hong Kong Museum of Art (see page 54) stands behind the Space Museum next to the cultural center.
0.65,0.55,0.44999999999999996,The museum mounts special exhibitions and has an excellent gift shop.
0.55,0.6,0.5,A few blocks up Chatham Road South are two more major museums.
0.6,0.6,0.6,Its restored lobby is Hong Kong’s most elegant gathering place; afternoon tea here is a visitors’ ritual.
0.5,0.4175,0.5425,"Turn off Nathan and walk down Kansu Street to find the Jade Market (open 10am–3pm; see page 80), with more than 100 stalls spread out in a large tent, just before you reach the overpass."
0.5,0.5,0.5,The barrel-vaulted chambers were discovered while excavating for a nearby housing project.
0.5,0.4,0.6,"The New Territories can be explored by taking the Kowloon–Canton Railway (KCR), which makes 10 stops between the station in Kowloon and Sheung Shui, the last stop before entering China."
0.5,0.25,0.5,Nearby is Chater Garden and a number of notable architectural landmarks.
0.55,0.35,0.55,The highway continues parallel to the coast.
0.5,0.5,0.5,Thus you will find “191/2-mile Beach” at Castle Peak Bay.
0.5,0.5,0.5,"It is known for its collection of bonsai and houses a jade seal more than 1,000 years old."
0.5825,0.5825,0.5825,The house was built in 1865 by a member of the Man clan who achieved the rank of tai fu (mandarin) by doing well in the Imperial Exam­inations.
0.55,0.5,0.44999999999999996,"From the next railway station, the modern campus of the Chinese University of Hong Kong is visible."
0.5,0.5,0.5625,Teaching here is conducted in both Chinese and English.
0.55,0.5,0.5,Some indefatigable climbers will want to go up to the top of the nine-story pink pagoda for a panoramic view.
0.5,0.4175,0.5825,"There is a total of 12,800 Buddha statues here, plus the remains of the monastery’s founder embalmed in gold leaf."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"The museum has an art collection, and displays of toys and other artifacts."
0.625,0.5,0.5,"Opposite the Sha Tin railway station, New Town Plaza features shops, cinemas, and even a computer-controlled musical fountain."
0.55,0.55,0.55,Two natural rock formations are always pointed out on excursions.
0.6,0.55,0.5,Excursion companies sell a variety of orientation cruises of Hong Kong harbor that include a look at some of its 235 outlying islands.
0.5,0.5,0.5,"You can catch one of Hong Kong’s historic trams along Des Voeux Road and ride from Central to Causeway Bay (see box, page 66)."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Ferries depart from Central every two hours between 6:10am and 10:30pm to Silvermine Bay (Mui Wo), where a bus terminal has buses to all parts of the island."
0.55,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,There are also ferries to Discovery Bay.
0.6,0.55,0.5,"A short bus ride away is Cheung Sha Beach, 3 km (2 miles) long, and popular for its white sand and excellent facilities."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"The statue and a small museum are on a peak, up 268 steps, above Po Lin Monastery."
0.5,0.4175,0.4575,"The island’s largest community is Tai O. The people of this picturesque village make their living by fishing, duck-breeding, and food-processing."
0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,The island has a checkered past of smuggling and pira cy.
0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,0.5,"The people still carve jade and build seaworthy junks, all by hand."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Yung Shue Wan is still a very British residential enclave, with many nice pubs."
0.5,0.5625,0.5,"Macau, the final bastion of Portugal’s great 16th-century empire, is much more than just a quirk of history."
0.5,0.30000000000000004,0.4,"Macau’s historic center, with its colonial architecture, has a distinctly Medit­er­ranean flavor."
0.5,0.5,0.55,"Note the stained glass windows in the Quiet Chapel, designed by Joseph Edward Nuttgens in the late 1950s."
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.5,"However, the end of the golden age was drawing near."
0.55,0.44999999999999996,0.5,"Macau’s population is estimated at around 450,000, an appallingly high figure for such a small area; recent land reclamation has eased the situation to some extent."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Departures are from the Macau Ferry Terminal, just west of Central in the Shun Tak Centre, 200 Connaught Road, Central, in Hong Kong."
0.5,0.5,0.5,Jetfoils leave every 15 to 30 minutes 24 hours a day.
0.5,0.5,0.5,The central square of the historic city center is Largo do Senado.
0.5,0.5,0.44999999999999996,"The inscription over the archway reads, “Cidade do nome de Deus, não ha outra mais leal” (“City of the Name of God, None is More Loyal”) — a bit of praise attributed to Portugal’s King John IV in the 17th century."
0.44999999999999996,0.55,0.5,"For all its historic grandeur, the loyal Senate now is the equivalent of a city council, its statesmanship dedicated to water supplies, sewage lines, and the establishment of playgrounds."
0.5,0.5,0.55,The ambitious Museum of Macau (open Tuesday–Sunday 10am–6pm; admission HK$15) opened in 1998 in the lower levels of the Monte Fortress.
0.5625,0.5,0.5,"Those whose fate was to die on some far foreign field could not have wanted a more peaceful, lovely graveyard."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"For a different vision of Old China, spend a few quiet moments in the classic Lou Lim Ieoc Garden."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"If you leave the park and walk up Cotton Tree Drive, you will find the Peak Tram terminal."
0.5825,0.5825,0.5825,"T he crowded Kowloon peninsula and the booming New Territories on the mainland call for some serious sightseeing; but we begin across Victoria Harbor on Hong Kong Island, where the city was first founded and which remains the center of government, business, and commerce."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"The Handover Pavilion was meant to be a temporary structure, but public outcry ensured its preservation (located on Xian Xing Hai; open weekdays 10am–6pm, until 10pm weekends)."
0.5,0.55,0.55,"Macau’s oldest museum, the Maritime Museum (Wednesday–Monday 10am–5:30pm; admission HK$10, HK$5 children over 10) traces the history of Macau’s connection to the sea."
0.5825,0.5825,0.5825,"Exhibits cover fishing, seaborne trade, sea transport, and there is an aquarium."
0.5,0.5,0.5825,"The area was called A-Ma Gau (“Bay of A-Ma”), and in this way, Macau got its name."
0.5,0.5,0.5,Part of the fortress has been converted and is now used as a luxury inn.
0.65,0.7,0.55,Macau’s casinos are a source of non-stop excitement.
0.5825,0.5,0.5,"The fancifully decorated Macau Palace, a floating casino moored on the western waterfront, is fitted out with gambling tables, slot machines (known locally as “hungry tigers”) and, for hungry humans, a restaurant."
0.5,0.4,0.5,"You can try your luck at pari mutuel betting on jai-alai at pari mutuel, greyhound-racing at the Cani­drome (one of the largest in the world), and harness-racing on Taipa."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Like Hong Kong, Macau is a duty-free port."
0.625,0.5625,0.5625,Gourmets award Macau high marks for dependable Chinese cooking with an exotic bonus: Portuguese food and wines.
0.5,0.5,0.5,Macau has an ample supply of Portuguese wines.
0.5,0.30000000000000004,0.5,The island is also the designated home of the University of East Asia.
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.5,"Pay a visit to the Casa Museu da Taipa, and you’ll be able to get a glimpse of how Macanese families lived in former days."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"A grand colonial house, fully restored and outfitted with period furnishings, provides the centerpiece for this expanding “cultural village. ”"
0.6,0.6,0.6,The city still maintains its important gateway role.
0.5,0.55,0.5,"Guangzhou, with a population of more than 5 million, straddles the Pearl River — China’s fifth longest — which links the city to the South China Sea."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Guangzhou today is mostly about business and industry, featuring new development, skyscrapers, a whole new business area, and raised expressways."
0.5,0.5,0.55,"However, it’s also easy to get to Guangzhou by train or ferry."
0.5425,0.3325,0.4175,"Four comfortable express trains depart the Kowloon-Canton Railway (KCR) Station in Hung Hom, Kowloon, making the trip in less than two hours."
0.5,0.4,0.4,You will need a visa to enter China (see page 109 for information).
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Hong Kong currency is widely accepted in Guangzhou, or you can change your currency into RMB (yuan) at any bank or hotel."
0.4575,0.4175,0.4575,"Note, however, that the exchange does not go the other way (see page 116)."
0.55,0.55,0.5,"The train station is in the newer business district; nearby is Asia’s third-tallest building, at 83 stories, which will often be pointed out to you."
0.5,0.375,0.4375,Dr. Sun Yat-sen (1866–1925) began his political career in Canton.
0.55,0.55,0.55,It was built in 1931 with contributions from overseas Chinese.
0.5,0.5,0.5,The center of the park is the Five Rams Statue.
0.5825,0.4175,0.5425,"Guangzhou’s most important Buddhist monument is the 1,400-year-old Temple of the Six Banyan Trees (open 8am–5pm)."
0.5,0.5,0.5825,"During the spring and autumn festivals, when people traditionally seek out the hilltops, the throngs are so large you would be better advised to try another time."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Chen Jia Ci, the Chen Family Institute (open daily 8:30am–5pm), was built in the late 19th century to promote arts and crafts."
0.5,0.4375,0.5625,"The market bears this out: Along with the usual ducks and chickens, you will see for sale snakes, dogs, bats, and sometimes monkeys — all are highly prized as delicacies."
0.5,0.35,0.44999999999999996,"More pleasantly, you can browse among lanes of antiques, flowers, herbs, fruit, goldfish, songbirds, and more."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,"The individual artisans’ shops are no longer here, but you can visit a silk-weaving factory, a ceramics plant, and the Foshan Folk Art Studio, where you can observe workers making Chinese lanterns, carving sculptures, painting scrolls, and cutting intricate designs in paper."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.55,"The complex contains the oldest wooden stage in China, used by the Wan Fu Tai Chinese opera."
0.65,0.5,0.4,Shenzhen’s main tourist attractions are its enormous theme parks.
0.5425,0.4575,0.5825,"If you’re up to a climb, take the Mount Austin road to the Victoria Peak Gardens."
0.5825,0.4175,0.5,"Across from the mansion, the Zoological and Botanical Gardens (gardens open daily 6am–10pm; zoo 6am–7pm; admission free) provide a welcome oasis amid the big-city pressures."
0.55,0.44999999999999996,0.55,Both young and old go through ballet-like movements in slow motion to discipline the mind and body.
0.6,0.55,0.55,The park’s zoo has a collection of weird and wonderful chattering jungle birds.
0.55,0.55,0.55,It is more interesting for its architecture than for its shopping; it’s situated in a four-story Edwardian building built in 1906.
0.5425,0.4575,0.5425,"The big green-and-white boat weaves its way through an ever-changing obstacle course of both large and small craft, and the soaring skyline of Hong Kong Island draws nearer."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"When it opened in 1912, the university had a total of 72 students."
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0.5,0.5,0.55,"Timex had requested duty-free treatment for many types of watches, covered by 58 different U.S. tariff classifications."
0.44999999999999996,0.4,0.55,"Timex is a major U.S. producer and seller of watches, including low-priced battery-operated watches assembled in the Philippines and other developing nations covered by the U.S. tariff preferences."
0.55,0.55,0.55,"The offer, advertised in today's editions of The Wall Street Journal, is scheduled to expire at the end of November."
0.5,0.4175,0.5,The offer is being launched pursuant to a previously announced agreement between the companies.
0.5,0.4,0.5,The reduced dividend is payable Jan. 2 to stock of record Dec. 15.
0.55,0.44999999999999996,0.55,Each right entitles the shareholder to buy $100 face amount of 13.5% bonds due 1993 and warrants to buy 23.5 common shares at 30 cents a share.
0.5625,0.5,0.625,"The rights, which expire Nov. 21, can be exercised for $100 each."
0.5,0.30000000000000004,0.55,He declined to discuss other terms of the issue.
0.5,0.4175,0.5,Price records are being set at auctions this week.
0.55,0.55,0.55,"Corporations and museums are among the serious buyers, giving greater market stability, says Robert Persky of the Photograph Collector."
0.375,0.4375,0.5625,"""When I see prints going into the hands of institutions, I know they aren't going to come back on the market."""
0.5,0.5,0.5,"""a great deal of money,"""
0.6,0.35,0.55,"""I'm starting to see more business transactions,"" says Andrea West of American Telephone & Telegraph Co., noting growing interest in use of 900 service for stock sales, software tutorials and even service contracts."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.55,"Colleges, she says, are eyeing registration through 900 service."
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.5,"Charities test the waters, but they face legal barriers to electronic fund raising."
0.5,0.5825,0.5,"""The thing that will really break this market right open is merchandising,"""
0.5,0.375,0.5625,"""The thing that will really break this market right open is merchandising,"" Ms. West says."
0.5625,0.375,0.5,Among its new customers: day-care centers that previously spurned the service.
0.5,0.5,0.44999999999999996,Also spurring the move to cloth: diaper covers with Velcro fasteners that eliminate the need for safety pins.
0.5,0.5,0.5,Odd-year elections attract relatively few ballot issues.
0.5,0.5,0.5,Mr. McGuigan cites three completed efforts in Oklahoma.
0.5,0.5,0.55,"The appointment takes effect Nov. 13. He succeeds James A. Taylor, who stepped down as chairman, president and chief executive in March for health reasons."
0.5,0.55,0.5,Edward L. Kane succeeded Mr. Taylor as chairman.
0.5,0.55,0.6,"Separately, Citadel posted a third-quarter net loss of $2.3 million, or 68 cents a share, versus net income of $5.3 million, or $1.61 a share, a year earlier."
0.5,0.375,0.5625,"Reed International PLC said that net income for the six months ended Oct. 1 slipped 5% to #89.7 million ($141.9 million), or 16 pence a share, from #94.8 million ($149.9 million), or 17.3 pence a share."
0.4375,0.5,0.5625,"Earnings were hurt by disposal of operations in its restructuring, Reed said."
0.5,0.55,0.55,The charges were offset in part by a gain from the sale of the company's construction division.
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Last year, DSM had 71 million guilders of extraordinary charges for the restructuring program and other transactions."
0.4375,0.5,0.5,"Elco Industries Inc. said it expects net income in the year ending June 30, 1990, to fall below a recent analyst's estimate of $1.65 a share."
0.4,0.4,0.4,The company's stock fell $1.125 to $13.625 in over-the-counter trading yesterday.
0.5,0.35,0.55,The year-ago results included a $415 million charge in the 1988 second quarter for underperforming real estate and mortgage loans.
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Net advanced to $94.2 million, or 89 cents a share, from $85 million, or 83 cents a share, including net realized investment gains of $31 million, up from $10 million a year ago."
0.4375,0.4375,0.5,Travelers estimated that the California earthquake last month will result in a fourth-quarter pre-tax charge of less than $10 million.
0.4,0.5,0.55,"In the first nine months, net was $306 million, compared with a loss of $195 million in the 1988 period."
0.5,0.5,0.55,"Williams shares, which were to be delisted from the New York Stock Exchange after the close of composite trading yesterday, closed at $23.25, off 12.5 cents. Primerica closed at $28.25, down 50 cents."
0.55,0.5,0.65,"In composite trading on the New York Stock Exchange, Telerate shares closed at $19.50, up 12.5 cents."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Dow Jones publishes The Wall Street Journal, Barron's magazine, and community newspapers and operates financial news services and computer data bases."
0.5,0.4375,0.4375,"The senior of the three executives who will assume Mr. Reupke's duties is Nigel Judah, 58, finance director and a Reuters board director."
0.5,0.5,0.44999999999999996,"1% of Dunkin' common shares, on a fully diluted basis, being tendered and on the withdrawal of the company's poison pill rights plan."
0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,0.5,The company also cited interest costs and amortization of goodwill as factors in the loss.
0.5,0.5,0.625,"A year earlier, net income was $2.1 million, or six cents a share, on revenue of $169.9 million."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Heritage, which owns 51% of POP's 3.6 million shares outstanding, said it will exchange one share of a new preferred stock for each POP common share it doesn't already own."
0.4,0.55,0.4,"In national over-the-counter trading yesterday, POP plunged $4 to $14.75."
0.4175,0.4175,0.4575,"RMS said it had a loss of $158,666, or 10 cents a share, in the third quarter, compared with a year-earlier loss of $26,956, or two cents a share."
0.4175,0.5,0.5,"RMS International Inc., Hasbrouk Heights, N.J., facing a cash-flow squeeze, said it is seeking other financing sources and waivers from debenture holders."
0.55,0.44999999999999996,0.55,"Ratners's chairman, Gerald Ratner, said the deal remains of ""substantial benefit to Ratners."""
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Ratners Group PLC, a fast-growing, acquisition-minded London-based jeweler, raised its price for Seattle-based specialty jeweler Weisfield's Inc. to $57.50 a share, or $62.1 million, from $50 a share, or $55 million, after another concern said it would be prepared to outbid Ratners's initial offer."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.5,"The sweetened offer has acceptances from more than 50% of Weisfield's shareholders, and it is scheduled for completion by Dec. 10."
0.5,0.5,0.5,The acquisition of 87-store Weisfield's raises Ratners's U.S. presence to 450 stores.
0.375,0.4375,0.4375,"Valley Federal Savings & Loan Association took an $89.9 million charge as it reported a third-quarter loss of $70.7 million, or $12.09 a share."
0.5,0.375,0.375,Valley Federal also added $18 million to realestate loan reserves and eliminated $9.9 million of good will.
0.44999999999999996,0.5,0.44999999999999996,New loans continue to slow; they were $6.6 million in the quarter compared with $361.8 million a year ago.
0.5,0.5,0.5625,Midwest Financial has $2.3 billion in assets and eight banks.
0.4,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,"Kalamazoo, Mich.-based First of America said it will eliminate the 13 management positions of the former Midwest Financial parent company."
0.5,0.5,0.55,First of America said some of the managers will take other jobs with First of America.
0.5,0.5,0.5,"But it said that severance payments to those executives not staying with the company will reduce First of America's operating results for 1989 by $3 million to $4 million, or 15 cents to 20 cents a share."
0.4,0.5,0.55,"The Avon, Conn., company's stock hit a high in 1983 after it unveiled its Adam home computer, but the product was plagued with glitches and the company's fortunes plunged."
0.44999999999999996,0.55,0.5,The plan was filed jointly with unsecured creditors in federal bankruptcy court in New York and must be approved by the court.
0.30000000000000004,0.6,0.55,"Xerox Corp. has told employees in its Crum & Forster personal insurance operations that it is laying off about 300 people, or 25% of the staff."
0.5,0.55,0.55,"Earnings at Xerox's financial-services operations actually rose slightly, but that was largely because capital gains at Crum & Forster offset Hurricane Hugo payments and the reserves set up to cover future payments."
0.5,0.375,0.5625,"An Upjohn spokesman said he had ""heard nothing"" to suggest the early retirement package was spurred by shareholder pressure or a potential bidder for the company, which occasionally has been the target of takeover speculation."
0.55,0.55,0.55,"In addition, Upjohn is offering a one-time retirement bonus equal to six months of base pay."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Chairman Theodore Cooper called the program part of the company's two-year strategy to implement budget constraints and ""an effective headcount-control program."""
0.5,0.5,0.5625,"But some analysts questioned how much of an impact the retirement package will have, because few jobs will end up being eliminated."
0.5625,0.5625,0.5625,"Customers holding contracts for Waertsilae Marine's undelivered ships are expected to subscribe most of the remaining 170 million markkaa in share capital, government officials said."
0.4375,0.5,0.5625,"Ralston attributed its fourth-quarter slump partly to higher costs of ingredients in the pet food business as well as competitive pressures, which required higher advertising spending."
0.5,0.5,0.6,"Its cereal division realized higher operating profit on volume increases, but also spent more on promotion."
0.5425,0.4575,0.5,"The St. Louis company earned $45.2 million, or 65 cents a share, compared with $84.9 million, or $1.24 a share, a year earlier."
0.55,0.44999999999999996,0.55,"Ralston shares closed yesterday at $80.50, off $1, in New York Stock Exchange composite trading."
0.5,0.4175,0.5825,"Sales in the latest period were $1.76 billion, a 13% increase from last year's $1.55 billion."
0.55,0.5,0.55,"For the year ended Sept. 30, Ralston earned $422.5 million, or $6.44 a share, up 8.9% from $387.8 million, or $5.63 a share."
0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,0.44999999999999996,"Ralston Purina Co. reported a 47% decline in fourth-quarter earnings, reflecting restructuring costs as well as a more difficult pet food market."
0.5,0.44999999999999996,0.4,"Any secret can be pirated, the experts said, if it is transmitted over the air."
0.5,0.4,0.55,"By contrast, European firms will spend $150 million this year on electronic security, and are expected to spend $1 billion by 1992."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Already many foreign firms, especially banks, have their own cryptographers, conference speakers reported."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Still, encrypting corporate communications is only a partial remedy."
0.5,0.4,0.5,He said that Oliver North of Iran-Contra notoriety thought he had erased his computer but that the information was later retrieved for congressional committees to read.
0.4,0.44999999999999996,0.55,"W. Mark Goode, president of Micronyx Inc., a Richardson, Texas, firm that makes computer-security products, provided a new definition for Mikhail Gorbachev's campaign for greater openness, known commonly as glasnost."
0.5,0.5,0.55,He cited the case of a Swiss oil trader who recently put out bids via telex for an oil tanker to pick up a cargo of crude in the Middle East.
0.5825,0.5825,0.5,"At Monterrey, publisher Luis Gabriel Cano, although shaken by the murders, issued a statement saying: ""We will not cease our fight against drug trafficking."
0.30000000000000004,0.6,0.35,"""Noriega has closed every independent newspaper, radio and television station and arrested, tortured or forced into exile a long list of reporters,"" the statement declared."
0.4,0.5,0.5,"It added: ""In Cuba, public enemy No. 1 of press freedoms in the hemisphere, repression of journalists both Cuban and foreign is worse than ever."""
0.4175,0.5,0.5,"And in Nicaragua, promises of press freedom by the Sandinistas ""have not materialized."""
0.5,0.5,0.55,Noriega is close to Castro and may once have been his agent.
0.5,0.625,0.625,Mr. Barco has refused U.S. troops or advisers but has accepted U.S. military aid.
0.44999999999999996,0.6,0.55,"With your increased commitment, we can intensify our campaigns to protect species that are in grave peril by both the loss of habitat and the illegal trading in animal parts."
0.5,0.5,0.5,"For instance, our innovative “Forests for Life Campaign” establishes an international network of parks and reserves."
0.5,0.4375,0.5625,“Forests for Life Campaign”
0.5,0.5,0.6,"However, I’m confident that by joining together again, we can make exciting progress in the year ahead."
0.55,0.4,0.6,"I want to ask you, therefore, to renew your valued World Wildlife Fund membership and, hopefully, at the Living Planet Society level of $750."
0.625,0.625,0.625,"When you do, you’ll extend your commitment as an esteemed partner with WWF -- the largest and most effective international conservation group in existence."
0.55,0.5,0.5,"Once again, please accept my warmest gratitude for your past support And please, take a moment today to renew your critically important WWF annual membership."
0.65,0.5,0.5,Thank you.
0.5,0.5,0.5,"Sincerely, Kathryn S. Fuller President"
0.5625,0.625,0.625,"In fact, I want to urge you to strengthen your dedication to saving life on Earth — by sending a generous leadership gift of $750 and becoming a member of World Wildlife Funds prestigious Living Planet Society."