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ABOUT 4 o'clock this afternoon, I can almost guarantee that I will be standing on the porch of my house upstate, trying to ignore the little demon on my shoulder. ''It's so beautiful here,'' the devil will whisper in my ear. ''The drive back to the city will be so long. The apartment will be soooo hot and stuffy. Why don't you just stay.''
TESTED: 2005 Chrysler 300C SRT8 WHAT IS IT? Performance-enhanced full-size sedan. HOW MUCH? $42,145 base (including delivery and $2,100 gas-guzzler tax) $45,500 as tested, including $440 Option Group I (cabin air filter, side-curtain air bags), $1,965 Option Group II (navigation system, 6-CD changer, Sirius satellite radio), $950 power sunroof. HOW FAST? 0-60 4.9 seconds (Road & Track) HOW THIRSTY? 14 m.p.g. city, 19 highway. ALTERNATIVES: Cadillac CTS-V, $51,485; Infiniti M45 Sport, $50,360; Mercedes-Benz E55 AMG, $85,075. DOES anyone really need a big sedan that can reach 60 miles an hour in five seconds? Probably not. But when all that muscle is balanced by a fine suspension and monster brakes -- and said sedan can be had for about the same price as many unremarkable ''entry luxury'' cars -- the package becomes mighty tempting.
Lower Manhattan and the West Side may have occupied the headlines for the last few years as New York City has plotted the direction of its growth. But it is the East Side riverfront of Manhattan that may be about to undergo the city's most imminent transformation. Developers are now moving forward with three large projects on the far East Side between 42nd and 23rd Streets, demolishing the last vestiges of the area's industrial past to make way for one of the city's tallest residential buildings and several large office towers and bioscience buildings. As many as 4,000 new apartments would house at least 8,000 residents in the area.
ISRAEL'S withdrawal from the Gaza Strip has provoked deep questions for Israelis about the direction of Zionism. But while the fundamental question posed for Israel is whither, for Palestine it is whether -- whether gaining more control over more territory than they have ever held will at last lead Palestinians to an independent state, or to a dead end. Palestinians are now post-Oslo, post-Arafat, and soon they may be post-occupation in Gaza. ''This is a test,'' said Basil Eleiwa, a Gaza businessman who sees this anvil of the Arab-Israeli conflict as a potential tourist paradise. ''Either we prove to the entire world that we deserve to have an independent state in Gaza, the West Bank and part of Jerusalem, or we prove the exact opposite.''
IT was midnight on a Friday in August, but where was everybody? Check the Dunkin' Donuts parking lot, said a carload of teenagers in the Taco Bell parking lot on Hempstead Turnpike, over the border in Levittown.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 17, 2005, covering August 21, 2005.
Faith Hill
Various Artists
Mariah Carey
Young Jeezy
Teairra Mari
2005Martin Dillon, American tenor and educator (born 1957)[†]
Martin Dillon was an American musician, operatic tenor, and professor of music at Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey.
2005Robert Moog, American businessman, founded Moog Music (born 1934)[†]
Robert Arthur Moog was an American engineer and electronic music pioneer. He was the founder of the synthesizer manufacturer Moog Music and the inventor of the first commercial synthesizer, the Moog synthesizer, which debuted in 1964. In 1970, Moog released a more portable model, the Minimoog, described as the most famous and influential synthesizer in history. Among Moog's honors are a Technical Grammy Award, received in 2002, and an induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
2005Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet and translator (born 1936)[†]
Dahlia Ravikovitch was an Israeli poet, translator and recipient of the Israel Prize for Poetry in 1998.
2005Marcus Schmuck, Austrian mountaineer (born 1925)[†]
Marcus Schmuck was an Austrian mountaineer. In 1957, together with Hermann Buhl he organized the expedition, firstly envisaged and initiated by Buhl, to climb the world's 12th highest peak, the Broad Peak (8,047 metres) in the Karakoram in Pakistan. The other members of the expedition were: Fritz Wintersteller and Kurt Diemberger. In his later years, he successfully organized and led 74 expeditions to the high mountains around the world.
In 2005, the world population was approximately 6,586,970,132 people[†]