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...required. Nobody else in the country knows how to do those jobs either. Or why not set up your own business? There's no shortage of people willing to lend you money. (But watch out for those extortionists.) Tatiana Bildyug, to take but one example, is in her early 20s and switched from accountant at a uranium-processing factory to development director of a shopping mall. The pay's not much better, but the job is a lot more dynamic and fun, she says. That sort of career move is typical of this generation, the first truly post-Soviet Russians...
...DIED. JADE SNOW WONG, 84, author and ceramicist whose 1950 memoir of her immigrant childhood, Fifth Chinese Daughter, painted a vivid picture of San Francisco's Chinatown in the early 20th century; in San Francisco. Wong wrote the book in her mid-20s after abandoning plans to become a social worker, opting instead to pursue her talent for pottery, which she later described as a means of making herself "free of Chinese culture's relentless subjugation of women...
...front-page article in last week's New York Times, young black men aren't only worse off than whites, Latinos and black women, but they're also worse off than they were just a few years ago. More than a fifth of black males in their 20s who did not go to college were incarcerated in 2004, up from 16 percent in 1995. Black males without a high school diploma-and they account for more than half of all black men -were in 2004 more than twice as likely as white males without a high school diploma...
...flyer and the HUPD advisory addressed an attempted kidnapping that occurred on March 9. The HUPD advisory warned Harvard community members of a Hispanic suspect in his late 20s who was driving a Honda sedan when he allegedly attempted to force a woman into his car at about 2 a.m. by brandishing a fake gun but fled when a Kennedy School of Government guard arrived...
...experimental side of things, the experiment in form, happened in the 20s with Eisenstein and the other Russians did a lot of experimenting. In the 60s, you did get a lot of experimentation, especially here in San Francisco with Bruce Connor and all those guys. But it was too far out of the mainstream. And in the end the foreign film industries wanted to do what America was doing. They wanted to have their movies seen all over the world, they wanted audiences to love them. And to do that, you can?t be too experimental, because most people aren...