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...Char is not a Hmong, but a Lao trader who for years made a comfortable living selling supplies to remote mountain communities around Phonsavanh. "He was very well liked and respected," says a villager in the district. "He always helped people out if he could." In 1993, says Va Char, a Hmong business contact told him about a remote community in the jungle that needed supplies. "I had never been political until I went to the jungle," he says. "I went there carrying salt and shoes, expecting to find a normal mountain village. Instead I was faced with thousands...
...could prove distinctly inhospitable. The Chinese city of Yuyao, a sprawl of factories and warehouses about three hours from Shanghai, has been a center for the plastic trade and related light industry for more than three decades. Last year, the roughly 1,000 merchants in Yuyao's main commercial district did $1.7 billion in business, selling everything from granulated PVC to finished plastic products, such as grips for fishing rods and motorcycle windshields...
This is no photo op in a wildlife park for tourists on safari. This is Mugie Ranch, a commercial livestock operation in Kenya's Laikipia district, about six hours north of Nairobi. Some 14,000 sheep and 1,000 cattle graze here on the open grasslands, tended by 200 ranch hands. Barely a mile from the feasting lions, herders are bringing cattle and sheep into their nighttime pens, raising clouds of red dust. The herders whistle at their dogs, which are on the alert for lions--and for leopards, which go to the nearby water hole at night to feed...
...short piece on her venture, Ripley was already receiving phone calls from designer houses eager to unload their wares. In early 2003, after moving to Atlanta with her Georgia-born husband, Ripley opened Luxe, a 5,000-sq.-ft. store in the Buckhead section's posh Miami Circle design district...
...extremist”—a term your campaign seems fond of affixing to opponents these days. As a college student in Cambridge I, admittedly, fit the stereotype. But I am also a voter from the key swing state of Arizona, and I live in a congressional district which has voted for the same Republican since 1984. If I am an extremist, it is only in the sense that I care more deeply about the future of our country than most and fear more gravely the damage your reelection will entail...