Seabiscuit was dung-colored and boxy, with stumpy legs that wouldn’t completely straighten, a straggly tail and an ungainly gait, but though he didn't look the part, he was one of the most remarkable thoroughbred racehorses in history.
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The story of the determined people who clung to their homes and way of life, enduring drought, dust, disease and even death for nearly a decade.
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www.pbs.org At a forum in Kansas City, Mo., Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke discussed the central bank’s actions in handling the economic crisis, saying he did not want to be the Fed chief who "presided over the second Great Depression."
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Hoover Dam’s electrical output helped build the ships and planes used in World War II; its water grew fruits and vegetables in California. It tamed a wild river and, for a time, renewed faith in American ingenuity and technology.
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Marc Faber, publisher of the Gloom, Boom & Doom Report, talks with Bloomberg’s Deirdre Bolton and Erik Schatzker about the outlook for US Treasury bonds. Faber, speaking from Prague, also discusses Dubai World's debt and the possibility of government defaults, including the US ... marc faber blo...
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State: The Crisis Since 9/11, and Depression, War and Cold War: Studies in Political Economy. He is also the editor of the collections, Re-Thinking Green: Alternatives to Environmental Bureaucracy; The Challenge of Liberty: Classical Liberalism Today; and Opposing the Crusader State: Alternative...
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Triumph Over Tragedy Exhibition Opening at artspace is a photographic commemoration of the people, places and events of the Great Depression/New Deal Era in North Louisiana. Photographic images were done by Brad Arender, Scarlett Hendricks and Neil Johnson. artspace is located at 710 Texas Stree...
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