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...RAND report calls "frustrated immigrants, drifters living on the margins of society, seekers of absolute truth or greater meaning for their lives" provide a rich field for terrorists to harvest. The cases of John Walker Lindh and Jose Padilla, coupled with the arrests in Lackawanna and earlier in Detroit and Oregon, suggest that the U.S. may already be facing the same phenomenon...
...unsuspecting parents as a girl, until puberty forces him (her?) to opt for manhood. But before Cal can tell his own intricate story, we get hundreds of pages about his parents and grandparents (who are brother and sister; it's a complicated clan), the burning of Smyrna, the Detroit riots of 1967 and the Greek-American embrace of the beckoning American scene. Some of this footloose book is charming. Most of it is middling. --By Richard Lacayo
...Mexicano on New York City's West Side. But the country's colorfulness is also alluded to by dozens of little white figurines doing a big Acapulco-style dive down a water-washed blue wall. On the other hand, each project is at the mercy of its theme. If Detroit Tigers fans think the idea of giant tiger statues and huge scratch marks on the columns at the Tigers' Comerica Park is insufficiently macho, they're out of luck...
...Pharmacists and drug companies are also trying to ward off dangerous mistakes, says Jesse Vivian, a pharmacist and a professor of pharmacy practice at Wayne State University in Detroit. "A lot of pharmacies are now using barcode technology to make sure the medications match the drug that's prescribed," he says...
...Under the old agreement, there was a five-year moratorium on layoffs and a clause granting the union the right to determine which cars were made in which plants. GM refused to acquire Daewoo until the agreement was altered to eliminate such un-American hindrances. In the end, the Detroit automaker bought two plants in Korea and one in Vietnam; it said it would acquire Daewoo's third Korean factory at Bupyeong, but only if it met higher production standards...