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Cobbling shoes is an honorable occupation, but it's not rocket science. It requires only limited skill and technology, and the country with the lowest wage tends to get the business. That's why China sells so many sneakers to Americans, including David Clay, 42, a toolmaker who helps build humpbacked Boeing 747 aircraft in a giant hangar just north of Seattle...
...local U.S. commanders didn't really feel they were doing their job if they weren't chewing up the countryside more or less nonstop. Consequently, as the sun dipped below the horizon, artillery shells would whistle down through the jungle canopy and throw up enormous red sprays of laterite-clay clods...
There is still hope that archaeologists can solve this mystery, as well as dozens of other unanswered questions about the Olmec. Most of the sites have barely been studied, and with good reason. Annual floods smother the land with thick layers of silt that dry into impenetrable clay. What's more, says Diehl, "about 80% of the entire Olmec territory in southern Mexico has been converted in the past 20 years from jungle to cow pastures and sugar-cane fields. There's so much vegetation on the surface that you can't just pick up pottery. Generally...
Since each man is simply trying to outwit the other by appearing to be all things to all people, consequently, in this election, more than the previous ones, ideology has been supplanted by opportunism. Accordingly, the two candidates' ideologies, it seems, have become as malleable as clay in a the hands of a child who can shape it as he wishes. What is worse, however, is the fact that we are being presented with a superficial facade intended for the public's consumption--while underneath, the candidates' views have not essentially changed. They have simply become ambiguous...
After such success on the clay, shutting out Penn on the good ol' fashioned hard stuff was a breeze...