INDICATORS

NEWSWATCH 50 - The buying power of Hispanics in the United States will
exceed that of blacks in 2007, a university study indicated Friday.
Hispanics' buying power will draw even with African-Americans, at $780
billion this year and shoot ahead in 2007, the study by the University
of Georgia's Selig Center for Economic Growth found. Hispanic buying
power will be $863.1 billion in 2007, up 8.1 percent from 2006, whereas
black buying power will reach $847 billion in 2007, up 6 percent, the
study said. "Hispanic economic clout will likely reach nearly $1.2
trillion in 2011," said center director Jeff Humphreys. "But
African-Americans' buying power will continue to be much stronger than
Hispanics' in most states because Hispanics are much more geographically
concentrated than African-Americans," Humphreys said. California alone
accounts for 27 percent of all Hispanic buying power in the U.S.
Hispanics surpassed blacks as the nation's largest minority group in
2001.

http://www.newswatch50.com/business/story.aspx?content_id=
4DB91B2D-1F36-417C-9E71-DA5A4304E7FA

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CITIES WITH THE HIGHEST PERCENTAGE OF RESIDENTS WITH COLLEGE DEGREES

1. Seattle
2. San Francisco
3. Raleigh
4. Washington
5. Austin
6. Minneapolis
7. Atlanta
8. Boston
9. San Diego
10. Lexington-Fayette
11. Denver
12. Charlotte
13. Portland
14. St. Paul
15. San Jose
16. Colorado Springs
17. Honolulu
18. Oakland
19. Pittsburgh
20. New York

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THE WORD ON THE STREET is that Mike Malloy may have been fired by Air
America because of his criticisms of Israel.

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MICHAEL R. GORDON, NY TIMES - Iraqi casualties soared by more than 50
percent in recent months, the product of spiraling sectarian clashes and
a Sunni-based insurgency that remains "potent and viable," the Pentagon
said in its latest comprehensive assessment of security in Iraq.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/02/world/middleeast/02military.html?hp&ex
=1157169600&en=8d9d096c8d2e2bff&ei=5094&partner=homepage


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DISCOVER - Burials in America deposit 827,060 gallons of embalming
fluid—formaldehyde, methanol, and ethanol—into the soil each year.
Cremation pumps dioxins, hydrochloric acid, sulfur dioxide, and carbon
dioxide into the air.
Alternatively . . . A Swedish company, Promessa, will freeze-dry your
body in liquid nitrogen, pulverize it with high-frequency vibrations,
and seal the resulting powder in a cornstarch coffin. They claim this
"ecological burial" will decompose in 6 to 12 months.

http://www.discover.com/issues/sep-06/departments/20thingsdeath

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UPI - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says if President George W.
Bush offered help in his re-election campaign, he would turn Bush down.
"I would say that this is something that I can handle myself,"
Schwarzenegger told ABC News. "I think that it is something that is
between me and the people of California."

http://insider.washingtontimes.com/articles/view_upi.php?StoryID=
20060902-094557-7099r