The term locality has different meanings in different disciplines:

Geography

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In geography, a locality is a place. This is the primary meaning of the term, from which other uses derive.

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Investigators arrive at site of crane collapse
Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:08:35 -0000
Hitting the ground with enough force to bounce a nearby worker off the ground, one of the nation's largest mobile cranes collapsed ...
Carolinas may see tropical storm
Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:43:30 -0000
A tropical depression off the Southeast coast is the first to threaten the U.S. this hurricane season, and forecasters said Saturday ...
Facebook used as character evidence, lands some in jail
Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:02:57 -0000
In the age of the Internet, social networking sites have yielded critical character evidence for prosecutors.
Cadaver dogs join search for missing Fla. girl
Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:05:15 -0000
Sheriff's deputies have deployed trained cadaver dogs in the search for a 2-year-old girl in Orlando, who has been missing for ...
Horrendous conditions found at nation's biggest jail
Sat, 19 Jul 2008 05:47:39 -0000
A federal investigation of the nation's largest single-site county jail has uncovered serious sanitation and medical care problems, ...
A 540-calorie Big Mac? N.Y. chains post calorie info
Sat, 19 Jul 2008 05:44:03 -0000
Customers at big fast-food chains in New York City are finally facing the facts about their meal choices. And for some, the truth ...

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Requiem for a queen
Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:29:20 -0000
A riverine legend faces extinctionBARRING a last minute reprieve, America's last proper paddle-wheeled steamboat may disappear by the end of the year. For decades the Delta Queen has been one of the most magnificent sights on the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, forging through the water as her calliope steam organ blasts merrily away.But it looks as though the federal Coast Guard, applying the same regulations to riverboats as to ocean-going ships, will no longer allow the Delta Queen to carry passengers on overnight excursions. The problem is the wooden superstructure, the white wedding-cake of decks above the boat's mighty hull. In 1966 federal regulations banned any vessel with wooden superstructures from carrying more than 50 passengers on anything longer than day-trips. Congress granted the Delta Queen an exemption because she is never more than a few hundred yards from the safety of the river bank should a fire occur. Since then, the exemption has been extended nine times. But probably not for a tenth. ...
¡Voten por mi!
Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:29:20 -0000
Latino voters are turning away from John McCain. That's a symptom of a bigger problem for RepublicansONE of the dilemmas facing those who spoke at the National Council of La Raza this week was how to pronounce the Hispanic activist group's name. The first syllable of the word raza (race, or people) requires a tricky, un-English tongue movement. Some of the anglophone speakers who tried it sounded as though they were about to choke. John McCain made no attempt at all, pronouncing the "R" like the last letter of "Budweiser". Barack Obama, by contrast, breezed through the word as if he had grown up eating sopaipillas. Then, to show off, he did it again. Although less numerous than black voters, Latino voters may tip this year's presidential election. They make up 12% of the electorate in Colorado and Nevada, 14% in Florida and 37% in New Mexico (see map). In 2004 George Bush won all four of those states by five percentage points or less, and all four of them are regarded as key battlefields this time around. Florida, as the fourth-biggest state in the union and electorally one of the closest, is a place where the large Hispanic vote could well prove decisive: Jeb Bush, the president's brother and the governor of Florida at the time of the 2000 and 2004 elections, has a Hispanic wife and helped boost the Republican's share of the Latino vote there. But he is now gone. ...
In the line of fire
Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:29:20 -0000
Barack Obama describes his war aims which are still rather vagueIN 1960 John F. Kennedy won the presidency by, in part, making the counter-intuitive argument that his Republican opponents had been too soft on the Soviet Union. Nearly half a century later, Barack Obama seemed this week to be trying something of the same sort. On July 15th Mr Obama appeared on a stage with no fewer than eight American flags, not to mention the one he has recently started wearing on his lapel. He had his work cut out. Ever since he spoke of "refining" his plans for pulling out of Iraq, liberals have assailed him for backing away from his commitment to all but leave Iraq within 16 months of taking office. Centrists hoped he would further soften his determination to pull out quickly. And whichever way he went, conservatives would criticise him: for flip-flopping if he moved towards the centrists, or for ignoring the success of the American "surge" if he satisfied the left. The right, not known for its love of satire, was already particularly thrilled by the cover of this week's New Yorker, which shows Mr Obama and his wife dressed as terrorists. ...
Turbine time
Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:29:20 -0000
T. Boone Pickens takes to the skiesAMERICANS spend $700 billion a year on foreign oil. According to one observer, this is an addiction, a crisis, and a trap. The country must pursue alternative energy sources as fiercely as it once shot for the moon. So far, so much liberal boilerplate. The critic in question, however, is a Republican oilman: T. Boone Pickens. As he puts it, in an Okie drawl: "I've been an oilman all my life. But this is one emergency we can't drill our way out of." He wants America to make a huge investment in wind-power infrastructure. During this election season, he will personally spend $58m to make the case. Mr Pickens's interest is not solely altruistic. His company, Mesa Power, has already invested $2 billion to build the world's largest wind farm in Pampa, a small town in the Texas panhandle. He told a Senate committee in June that he is going to pay for the transmission lines that will carry Pampa's power to the Dallas area because he cannot wait for the state to build the infrastructure. As he likes to point out, he is 80 years old and worth $4 billion. So profit is not the only issue, either. ...
Which way will capital vote?
Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:29:20 -0000
Business-minded voters have doubts about both candidatesFOR a short while in his early 20s, Barack Obama edited reports in New York for Business International, a publishing firm that was later bought by The Economist Group. He did not much like it, so he quit to become a community organiser. That was his only first-hand experience of business. John McCain has had even less, having spent his adult life as a pilot, prisoner-of-war and politician. Businesspeople might wonder if either candidate truly understands their worries. Both men are happy to take money from businesspeople, and both praise enterprise in the abstract. But both also snipe at supposed corporate villains. Mr Obama spent his primary campaign railing against oil firms, irresponsible mortgage lenders and overpaid bosses who export American jobs. Mr McCain fulminates pointlessly about oil speculators, and once dismissed a Republican rival, Mitt Romney, a successful businessman, by sneering: "I led...not for profit but for patriotism." ...
The Big Apple gets poorer
Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:29:20 -0000
The federal definition of poverty is challenged by local governmentFED UP with the slow-moving federal government, America's local municipalities and states have recently launched many reform plans themselves, including health care (Massachusetts's universal health initiatives) and global warming (California's emissions caps). New York City, already a model in policing and an emerging one in school reform, is now tackling poverty. To fight it properly you need good figures; as the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan once said, "you can't solve a problem until you can measure it." So Michael Bloomberg, New York's mayor, announced on July 13th an alternative to the federal poverty measure. This measure, now 40 years old, assesses pre-tax cash income against a number of thresholds, based primarily on food spending. But this has decreased from one-third to one-eighth of average household spending over the past four decades. Housing, which now makes up more than 30% of family expenditure, is not taken into account. Nor are regional cost-of-living differences. A two-bedroom apartment, for instance, costs $1,318 a month in New York City and $1,592 in San Francisco, contrasting sharply with the national average of $867 and one Mississippi county's $498. On the income side, non-cash benefits such as subsidised housing and food stamps, are ignored. So is the earned-income tax credit, a wage subsidy geared towards the working poor. ...

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