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...campaign office for Democratic congressional candidate Hank Eng is in Littleton, at the western end of Arapahoe County, which wraps around to the east of Denver before shooting 70 miles (112 km) out toward the prairie. Littleton is the county seat and one of Arapahoe's few remaining affluent suburbs. Eng's campaign operates out of a strip mall that has seen better days, wedged between Pathways Home Care Center and an unadventurous-looking storefront called Adventures in Dance...
Some of the shine has come off Arapahoe since the days in the 1960s when a brand-new ranch house with a one-car garage was all a suburbanite could hope for. The more affluent left it behind over the years for wealthier counties like Douglas, which is where Eng's Republican opponent has set up his headquarters. To get to Mike Coffman's office in Highlands Ranch, you have to drive past mile after mile of McMansion developments with names like Berkshire Residences and soon-to-be-opened box stores that still have the plastic wrap...
...Eng and Coffman are running for the seat of retiring GOP lawmaker and erstwhile presidential candidate Tom Tancredo, who built a political career in Arapahoe out of his anti-immigration crusade. (His presidential campaign slogan: "Secure the borders. Deport those who don't belong. Make sure they never come back.") When Tancredo first entered political life 30 years ago, the county's most prominent homegrown politician was Republican Senator Bill Armstrong, a conservative of the William F. Buckley mold. Arapahoe voted for Ronald Reagan by a 39-point margin...
...SARS epidemic crippled the city, killing nearly 300 people and grinding public life to an eerie halt. At the time, the government came under fire for not doing enough to curb the spread of the disease, leading to the eventual resignation of the acting health chief Yeoh Eng-kiong. "This is not as bad as SARS," says Lam Tin Lung, an ambulance driver who worked through that health crisis. "But we take more caution now. We've learned to be more aware of diseases...
...largest ethnic group, in everything from education to government contracts. Saturday's results showed ethnic minorities made good on their vows to defect from the National Front, with many switching to the DAP camp. "People can only put up with so much," says DAP Secretary-General Lim Guan Eng, who is set to become Penang's new Chief Minister. "Dissatisfaction has reached a boiling point...