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...entire economy. As costs at home have risen and the island's manufacturing has moved offshore, Taiwan has needed to foster new industries, especially in the service sector, to generate growth and jobs, but a lack of access to China has hindered those efforts. "The transformation from a manufacturing base to more of a services base is still experiencing labor pains, and it still has a lot to do with cross-strait difficulties," Kung laments. (Read "Taiwan's New Head Seeks Change...
With a paring knife, trim the base of the leaves flush with the artichoke bottom. Snip or pluck off the outer layers of leaves to expose the leaves that are pale yellow almost all the way to the tip. Cut off the top third of the artichoke leaves with a sturdy serrated knife...
...pluck off the smaller leaves around the base of the artichoke...
...briefings, Cromitie was joined by David Williams (a.k.a. Daoud), Onta Williams (a.k.a. Hamza) and Laguerre Payen (a.k.a. Amin). The four men, all former convicts, were said to have talked about attacking targets in New York, including a synagogue in the Bronx and military aircraft at the Air National Guard Base at Stewart International Airport, which is west of Newburgh. Cromitie then allegedly asked the informant to procure surface-to-air missiles and explosives to enable the attacks. The informant responded that he could provide Cromitie with C-4 plastic explosives...
...April 2009, according to government officials, the four conspirators selected the synagogue and a Jewish community center they intended to target, and conducted surveillance at the Air National Guard Base; they supposedly took pictures of the aircraft. In late April 2009, Cromitie and Williams were said to have bought a 9-mm semiautomatic pistol. According to the U.S., they identified locations from which to attack the aircraft with missiles...