Sociologists continue to be vexed by the pathology of urban violence: Why is it so random, so fierce, so easily triggered? One answer may be found in this nation's Southern past.
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Was he really the first? If he sailed for Spain, why do Italians make such a fuss about his birthday? How come America isn't named for him? Why is he being called a villain now?
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A tribute to the brash confections our car makers offered the world during a decade when not one American in a thousand had even heard the name Toyota
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