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Oranges and Apples Comparisons: The Roots of the Problem

Colm Mulcahy | Posted 01.09.2013 | Science
Read More: Fractals, Volume, Area, Hypervolume, Size Comparisons, Tesseract, Logarithms, Hypercube, Fourth Roots, Cube Roots, Square Roots, Roots, Dimension, Science News
Colm Mulcahy

Can you think of a shape that occupies three times as much area on a page as it used to, when it's doubled in size?

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New Report Highlights Barriers to Economic Security for Low-Income Women & Their Families

Nicola Goren | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Read More: Virginia, Girls, Dc, Women's, Women, Area, Poverty, Foundation, Washington, Income, Maryland, Impact News
Nicola Goren

How much money do you spend every month? How little could you survive on? If you're a single woman with a family in the District of Columbia, the answer could be $300 or less each month.

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"Black Royalty"?

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
Read More: Royalty, Al Sharpton, Melba Moore, Judge Judy, Nell's, Harvard, Basil Patterson, Paris, Leatrice O?Farrell, Willie Horton, John-D-Rockefeller-Jr, Politics, Eunice Johnson, Wealth, Stevie Wonder, Dorothea Towles Church, Chicago, Slavery, Tuskegee Airmen, George Faison, Fashion, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Grafton Ttrew, Bowery Bar, Gilbert Stafford, The Duchess of Windsor, Cain, Baltimore, Area, John Jacob Astor, Sag Harbor, Cornelius Vanderbilt, New York, Barack Obama, US Air Force, George Johnson, Howard University, Percy Sutton, Aristocrats, Style, Mark Gilbertson, David N. Dinkins, Mother Theresa, New York Times, John Johnson, Congressman Charles B. Rangel, World War II, Booker T. Washington, Martha's Vineyard, Trixies, Crobar, Jonathan Capehart, Style News
Michael Henry Adams

The demise in succession of three African American figures of colossal stature on the eve of the new decade caused me to wonder anew about this designation, "black royalty."

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Brooklyn's Local Chains Become Little Empires

New York Times | DIANE CARDWELL | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Patrick Watson, Alan Harding, Area, Jean-Jacques Bernat, Brooklyn, Melissa Murphy, Sweet Melissa Bakery, Michele Pravda, Smith Street, Brooklyn Chains, Jim Mamary, Brooklyn Smith Street, Robert Walsh, Leslie Bernat, Area Brooklyn, Brooklyn Stores, Frank Falcinelli, Loretta Gendville, Loren Sosna, Frank Castronovo, Scott Stringer, New York News

While New Yorkers have been nervously eyeing the encroaching tide of national chains, fearing the stores will wash away all things small and charming,...

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