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The Founding city: The Philadelphia inquirer's Bicentennial journals

History

David Boldt

Americas

Philadelphia Inquirer

UConn rocks the cradle of Women's Basketball. The staff of The Inquirer follows the 1999-2000 season of women's college basketball that culminated in the Women's Final Four championship games in Philadelphia. UConn, Penn State, Tennessee and Rutgers met to find a winner. UConn defeated Tennessee for the national crown 71-52. This book follows the fast-paced season that was the road to Philly. It also traces the roots of modern women's basketball to the early victories of the Immaculata College Mighty Macs from suburban Philadelphia who won the national title three years in a row from 1972 through 1974.

Philly's Final Four

Sports & Outdoors

Inquirer, Staff of The Philadelphia

Basketball

The authors, both award-winning reporters for The Philadelphia Inquirer, shared a fascination with the great Ash Wednesday Storm of 1962 that slammed into the Atlantic Coast, devastating sections of the New Jersey Shore. They set out in April of 1998 to examine the history and impact of that storm. It soon became clear that the storm was a pivotal event in the development of the coast. Instead of retreating to higher ground, speculators and builders rushed to rebuild on the waters' edge, driving up land values. Now, billions of dollars in developments line the nations beaches, built on sand, awaiting the wrath of nature.

Crisis on the Coast: The Risky Development of America's Shores

Business & Money

Wood, Anthony R.

Gaul, Gilbert M.

Economics

More than 200 firefighters, police and paramedics in Chester, Pa, answered the call when the fire under the Commodore Barry bridge on February 2, 1978. No one told them they were wading into one of the worst illegal chemical dumps in the nation.

Beyond the Flames: One Toxic Dump, Two Decades of Sorrow

Science & Math

Larry King

Susan Q. Stranahan

Earth Sciences

Joe Logan knows golf. It's his job. Logan has played scores of courses within a two hour drive of Philadelphia. Playing A Round is a collection of 81 of his course reviews from the Sunday Inquirer. It's like having a good friend recommend a course worth about four hours of your time.

Playing A Round: The Guide to Philadelphia-Area Golf Courses

Logan, Joe

Golf

Restaurant Reviews for the Philadelphia Region: The Inquirer's award-winning food critic Craig LaBan reviews 76 of his favorite Philadelphia-area restaurants. Savoring Philadelphia is the complete guide to dining in the region with information on more than 300 restaurants that are indexed by neighborhood and type of cuisine.

Savoring Philadelphia

Travel

LaBan, Craig

Food, Lodging & Transportation

FAQ 3.5: Sound Answers To Real Computing Questions

Fried, John J.

Computers & Technology

Just weeks before a presidential election in which Iraq is the hottest issue, one of America's sharpest foreign affairs commentators lays out how the Bush team marched with eyes wide shut into a quagmire. In her Worldview column for The Philadelphia Inquirer, Trudy Rubin predicted what would happen, warned about the mistakes on the ground, advised what should be done, and pointed out who made the mistakes. 
This collection of Rubin's columns from July 2002 - June 2004, with additional material, vividly portrays how the administration misconceived the Iraq war and mishandled the postwar. The book draws on her three lengthy trips to Iraq since the fall of Baghdad, and her close contacts with members of the new Iraqi government, Iraqi clerics, and a broad range of ordinary Iraqis. Rubin is one of the few foreign policy commentators who knows this story from both the Iraqi and American angles. 
Now, as the situation worsens daily, and Washington belatedly tries to adopt many of the strategies she advocated from the start of the occupation, Trudy Rubin, with a sharp eye and penetrating insight looks at what must be done to prevent Iraq from deteriorating into a terrorist haven and to enable the United States to draw down its troops. 
At a critical time when Americans need to make an informed decision about their country's political future and its role in Iraq, Trudy Rubin in Willful Blindness simplifies a complex story in a way that lets the readers understand what is really going on behind the headlines.

Willful Blindness: The Bush Administration And Iraq

Rubin, Trudy

Military

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