In Kansas City - Installation of bathtubs with four legs resembling animal paws is prohibited.
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A Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year
A Publisher's Weekly Best Book of the Year
One of Kansas City Star's 100 Noteworthy Books of the Year
Winner of the William Rockhill Nelson Award for Nonfiction
Winner of the Harry Chapin Media Award
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Forget the nerdy reputation that debate has. Instead think of a scenario as exciting as a sports game with high stakes like triumphing over racism. bad politics and abject poverty... An important, thoughtful and provocative look at race and class in America.
- The Boston Globe
Joe Miller's enthusiasm is infectious and the plot creates the suspense of a good courtroom thriller.
- Entertainment Weekly
The minute I finished Joe Miller's Cross-X, I held the book out in front of me -- amazed, rapturous, and hopeful... Miller's mesmerizing, vivid accounts of the debates will leave you crouched in your seat, holding your breath... An incredibly powerful, daringly hopeful book.
- Minneapolis Star-Tribune
Irresistible... Miller begins breezily but is soon deeply invested in the Central squad's mission to not only master the debate game on its own terms but revolutionize it with flashes of poetry and hip-hop wordplay... If all these kids could run things, Miller implies, imagine what could get done.
- Elle
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"In St. Louis - It is illegal for an on-duty firefighter to rescue a woman wearing a nightgown. In order to be rescued, a woman must be fully dressed.
"In St. Louis - It's illegal to sit on the curb of any city street and drink beer from a bucket."
re: the first one, i can find out from my dad's friend, whose a fire department mother:
and as to the second one, i know that in the 50s, bars, especially german-american ones (as we would call them today) sold beer in little pails. my mother tells the story of how they would go down to some corner and pick it up to carry home to perhaps a grandfather, definitely germans. i don't think the kids drank any of it. so, i guess it's like our current open container bans.
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