As dawn rose, Maralyn looked out at the emptiness. A clear sky, the Pacific Ocean, and themselves: a small boat, sailing west.
She left her watch on deck and went down to the cabin. Her husband Maurice was still asleep. The morning would follow the usual rhythms: coffee and breakfast, then all the checks and jobs a boat requires.
Except this morning — in March 1973. At the precise moment that Maralyn put her hand on Maurice to wake him,
Tesla drivers are much more likely to live in Australia’s wealthiest postcodes – but there are a few surprises in a trove of data.
Well-heeled suburbs of Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane dominate the top 20 list of where electric cars are registered, with the Gold Coast intriguingly having the most per capita.
For the first time ever, a Tesla was Australia’s second most popular car, outselling a ute that had topped the monthly sales charts three times this year, with
Als ein demokratischer Senator aus Milwaukee vor dem Senat des Bundesstaates Wisconsin über den vorgeschlagenen Staatshaushalt sprach, kritisierte er die Vorstädter mit den Worten: „Scheiß auf die Vororte.“
Staatssenatorin LaTonya Johnson begann ihre Rede damit, dass sie von den Kindern sprach, die in ihrer Gemeinde durch Waffengewalt getötet worden waren, und ging dann dazu über, Vorstädtern, die Waffen in die Stadt brachten, die Schuld für einen Teil der Gewalt zu geben.
„In der Stadt Milwaukee gibt es im Jahr 2021
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What are your thoughts on cities versus suburbs?
Feel free to discuss their past, present, or future; their pluses and minuses; their respective roles in American life; or where you choose to live and why. As
Australia’s most expensive suburbs now vote Labor or for ‘teal’ independents – with the Liberal Party holding not one of these ultra elite postcodes in an unthinkable development.
In a major realignment of Australian politics, Labor is increasingly becoming the party of well-off electorates near city centres and with saltwater views.
Meanwhile, the Liberal Party represents outer suburbs in the mortgage belt including Penrith in western Sydney and Caboolture north of Brisbane.
After Saturday night, a federal Labor MP will
In 1985, Bill McKibben, then all of twenty-five years old, was enjoying an arrow-straight trajectory toward the upper echelons of American journalism. Soon after graduating from Harvard, where he had served as president of the Crimson, he was hired by William Shawn, the longtime editor of The New Yorker, as a staff writer. Shawn began to consider McKibben a potential successor, and assigned him extra editing duties in preparation for a larger role. But then the Fleischmann family,
