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...When we meet them, the narrator and her sister are living a pampered life in 1930s Shanghai, modeling for the city's famous "beautiful girl" calendars, which were once sold to tout soap or cigarettes and now are popular collectibles. But by the end, they have had to contend with everything from Chinese mobsters and brutal Japanese soldiers to bigoted immigration officials and a rigid father...
While most blue laws faded into obscurity after the Revolutionary War, the temperance movement of the 1930s renewed interest in banning the Devil's Brew and reclaiming Sunday as a holy day, especially in the Bible Belt. In 1961, the Supreme Court ruled that states had the right to impose blue laws, but only if lawmakers could come up with a rationale that wasn't rooted in religion. Explaining the court's ruling, Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote that Sunday is a "time for family activity, for late sleeping, for passive and active entertainments, for dining out and the like...
...1930s, Social Security numbers were assigned for income-tracking purposes and determined according to an individual's date and place of birth. Back then, identity theft - not to mention modern technology like the personal computer - were "unthinkable." But the technological boom of recent decades, coupled with the SSN's popularity as an authentication device, has enabled an "architecture of vulnerability" that exposes millions of Americans to fraud and exploitation, the report argues...
...1930s, doctors touted methamphetamine as a miracle drug "that would end the need for all others." Today it's one of the most addictive and dangerous substances in the world. In this case study, journalist Nick Reding examines how the meth epidemic decimated Oelwein, Iowa (pop. 6,159), where police at one point were dismantling two crank labs a week. For Reding, who spent four years reporting among Oelwein's addicts, officials and residents, the drug is more than just a small-town scourge. Meth, he writes, is a metaphor for the "cataclysmic fault lines formed by globalization." After agribusiness...
...players in the feud are Ferdinand Piech and Wolfgang Porsche, both of them grandsons of the visionary automotive engineer Ferdinand Porsche, who invented both Porsche and VW back in the 1930s. Wolfgang Porsche is chairman of Porsche, while his cousin Piech is chairman...