To be sure, this now quintessential form of American living — tract subdivisions distant from work, shopping and urban amenities — was itself once an American novelty.
Tamara Manik-Perlman, an analyst at Azavea, a Philadelphia geospatial software firm, plotted the addresses of people the state says are registered to vote but don't have valid ID, and found that voters who live in the the city's most heavily African American census tracts are 85percentt more likely to lack a valid ID than a voter who lives in a predominantly white area.
Eight of the 17 reporting facilities are in Jefferson County with 7 clustered within population dense, primarily African American census tracts in Birmingham, AL.
American Indians with larger tracts of leased land will receive significantly more, the department said.
In this quartile, a 10% increase in the percentage of African Americans in the tract was associated with an average increase in risk of 3.4 × 10−4.
But for reasons that remain obscure — the remote locale, the chaos of the Mexican Revolution from 1910 to 1920, the difficulty of gaining access to the southern shore — the Horcón Tract's American pedigree slowly faded.
Styles for States Polka came to Nebraska in the 1850s, when Czechs fled worsening economic conditions in Bohemia and Moravia, drawn by the promise of large tracts of American farmland.
Ms. Pérez runs one of the more than 60 independent libraries in Cuba, relatively small collections of everything from pristine college texts and yellowed paperbacks with cracked spines to photocopied American magazines and dissident tracts.
Those two films in particular – with Interstellar's dimension-bending denouement closer to a sort of old-time spiritualism than Nolan might like to admit – use sci-fi to widen the same imaginative wormholes that have caused periodic eruptions of the weird in seemingly impervious tracts of American normality in past films.
So when Thomas Paine and John Peter Zenger published their defiant tracts, fellow American colonists yearning for freedom did not question their credentials to write.
In Guyana and other South American countries containing large tracts of Amazon jungle, few studies have investigated the prevalence of HIV infection in isolated communities (1 ).
