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...sheiks have been waiting for several hours now, and it's time for lunch. A row of aluminum tables is placed in the quadrangle, and giant trays of rice and lamb appear. The sheiks stand around as they eat directly from the trays. Everybody seems to agree that it has been a most productive morning, and as they depart, the sheiks make sure to compliment the al-Hais chieftains, Mohammed and Hamid, who beam with satisfaction. "This is politics, Anbar style," says Hamid. And what does he think of the election? "The only way anybody else...
...Shopkeeper A short walk from where Lu's daughter died, a temporary town has sprouted. Nearly 4,000 residents from the mountainside village of Tangjiashan, which was destroyed in a landslide, now live in makeshift houses with gray, Styrofoam-lined aluminum walls and concrete floors. A school, bank, police station and local government headquarters are all packed into these oversized gray boxes...
...feet away are five young men, shielding their eyes from the sudden beam of light. Closer in, it becomes clear they are wearing only bathing suits and T shirts in the chilly night, sitting in an inflatable blue-and-yellow dinghy meant for beach play and propelled by two aluminum and plastic paddles...
...Pepsi, the good news is that the commodity cycle eventually turns in your favor, and this time it is happening in a hurry. Corn prices were down more than 50% by November from their summer peak. Aluminum prices were down 20%, which makes can stock cheaper, and oil costs have fallen a third. That will help make international expansion less costly...
...point, when the guys in Red Fang suit up to do battle with their nemeses, a group of non-beer-drinking, role-playing geeks (who seem to be involved in a real life version of Dungeons and Dragons, or something equally cool). At this point, our aluminum-clad heroes rush down from above and land heavy blows on the role players—the dork playing the knight, for example, gets smashed with a hammer made from a five-liter keg can. But Red Fang hasn’t learned the very valuable lesson that the “Revenge...