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...variety of nicknames and pseudonyms, including John Lee Booker and Johnny Lee and Texas Slim and Boogie Man. He also played all sorts of venues, from juke joints and dive bars to festivals and fish fries. He lived in Detroit for a time, and he worked in an auto plant by day and churned out the blues by night...
Researchers at the University of Michigan who studied the effects of the increase in the drinking age found that states on average reduced drinking among high school seniors 13.3%. The change also contributed to a 58% drop in alcohol-related auto deaths among 15- to 20-year-olds since 1982. A small chorus of university leaders believe, however, that the higher drinking age has in some ways made drinking more dangerous...
...Balata's narrow streets, the chaotic traffic writhes slowly and fractiously between the cinder-block auto shops in the simmering heat of spring on the valley floor. More than 800 feet above the dusty camp, on the lush peak of Mount Gerizim, a monumental structure is rising, half Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, half Taj Mahal. It is the new home of a leading member of the Masri family, the most powerful and wealthy clan in Nablus. It is a reminder, too, of the differences between the unruly refugee camp and the Palestinian metropolis in the West Bank, and a symbol...
...family holding company Marine-Wendel, shaken by the collapse of the steel industry, turned to him to restore its shattered fortunes. Seillière transformed the creaky industrial artifact into a modern conglomerate with interests ranging from information technology and Internet services to energy, real estate and auto parts. In less than 25 years, he multiplied the company's worth 90-fold to some $1.25 billion...
...hand, manufacturers from Ireland to Japan are streaming into town. Some 400 maquiladoras, or assembly plants, have all but eliminated unemployment in Juarez and have sown the seeds of a stable middle class, "not Mexicans with sombreros," says Miguel Angel Giron, 26, an accountant at an auto-parts factory. But all the problems that booming trade creates are concentrated here as well; the potable water in the cities' common aquifer is set to run out in 25 years; the air quality is imperiled; diseases are spreading, and they don't stop at the customs station. Presidents Fox and Bush talk...