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Hundreds of thousands of peasants in Peru and Bolivia live by growing coca. Officials of both countries say there is little hope of eradicating the crop unless the growers have another way of making a living...
Such conflicts crop up in some of the most basic rituals of working life. "If an American wants an answer, he'll pick up the phone," says Kai Lindholst, a managing partner of Egon Zehnder, an international consulting firm. "A European will write a memo. The phone call will seem overly aggressive and pushy to the European manager, but the American needs to convey a greater sense of urgency because competition in the U.S. is so tough...
...matter why Mao initiated the Cultural Revolution, what is most interesting today is that the Chairman's successors appear totally uninterested in the question. For the party's present leaders, so expert at rewriting history that they regularly crop from official photographs whoever is currently out of favor, it has been enough to blame a few scapegoats for a decade of chaos and leave it at that...
...main road to Guangzhou, is an example of how economic freedom can energize a population. Shops full of sofas, chairs and beds stretch as far as the eye can see. "Furniture Mile" began several years ago when a few local farmers decided that after meeting their government-mandated crop quotas, they would rather augment their income by making furniture than by growing more vegetables. Soon, farmers throughout the area followed suit. Today anyone with wheels stops to load as much furniture as he can carry, then resells his wares later in whatever market he can find...
...each winter to do it. That is what Alec Wilkinson, a staff writer for The New Yorker, did when he came across this information in a 1984 newspaper story. Other questions aroused Wilkinson's interest as a reporter. Among them: Is it not odd that a major domestic cash crop should be so heavily dependent on imported black labor? What is going on down there? For the next four years, Wilkinson paid a number of visits to South Florida trying to find...