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...everything from freckle-removal and teeth-whitening to "maidenhead recovery." Shenzhen's health authorities list eye-widening as the most requested alteration: the city's 1,600 cosmetic surgeons will open up an average 8,000 pairs a week. The look is big, brash and bold, the better to attract a visiting businessman...
...success by George McLean, an eccentric teacher turned millionaire who bought the town's newspaper in the early 1930s, then used it to push what he called social interaction. Only by investing in schools and in infrastructure like roads, he believed, could the town evolve into a community and attract prosperous industries. He and other Tupelo leaders were recruiting foreign companies as far back as the 1970s. Upon his death in 1983, McLean donated most of his wealth, including his profitable newspaper, to create an economic-development foundation that remains the driving force in the town's growth...
...oldest industries in the Tupelo area is furniture, which today accounts for nearly 40% of the region's manufacturing jobs. Local leaders have worked to sustain that industry by, for example, building a trade-show facility the size of four football fields. But they have also labored to attract firms across a broad range of industries. Says Thomas Griffith, mayor of Amory, just south of Tupelo: "We don't want to be too dependent on any one industry. If one plant shuts down, it doesn't hamstring the total economy...
...Sell your quality of life--and work to improve it. For all its progress, Tupelo is still in the middle of nowhere. It will never attract residents who demand opera, haute cuisine or courtside NBA tickets. But a three-bedroom house costs $100,000 or less. Nearby forests and waterways provide superb fishing, boating, camping and hunting. Tupelo has grown its own symphony and theater group. Its regional hospital employs more than 5,000 people and provides high-quality health care...
...scratch /Impossible to catch"), and the odd, earth-toned sets make this Mississippi River town look like something the Pharoahs built. The show does rev up some lively melodrama in the second act, with an exciting cave climax that kids might enjoy. But this show has little to attract paying adults - unless they're looking for a rest after standing in line for tickets to "The Producers...