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Factories are sprouting and expanding to accommodate newcomers in such fields as aerospace, computers and medical services. The population exodus has been reversed as office towers, whose occupancy levels plummeted as low as 10% in 1986, fill with firms springing up or relocating from other states. As Houston diversifies, it is shedding some of its rough-and-tumble past for an urbane glitter. Chic Italian restaurants now set the gastronomic tone, and croissant parlors near Rice University are crowded with research biologists from the nearby Texas Medical Center...
...helm until he pulls off another comeback for the company, which is suffering from weak sales and profits. Greenwald is the third top Chrysler executive to leave in the past month, following Michael Hammes, 48, the head of international operations, and Frederick Zuckerman, 55, the corporate treasurer. The exodus has prompted suspicion of an internal dispute over Chrysler's strategy, most notably whether the automaker should seek a merger with a European or Japanese rival...
Soon, he and the remainder of the family were part of the mass exodus. Carrying only a little rice and some blankets, they joined thousands of others on foot or bicycle heading south along the Basak River. No one knew where they were marching or why. The troops who rounded them up said only that they would not be gone long from Phnom Penh. At night they slept beside the road. After a few days, the flip-flops Seng and his family were wearing disintegrated, and they had no choice but to go barefoot on the road's blistering macadam...
Passover, the annual retelling of the Exodus story, is drawing to a close. In the final days, all of us--Jew and non-Jew alike--who can still hear the echoes of the parting sea must attempt to apply the inspirational Exodus tale to our own lives and our own world...
Passover impels us to look outward, at social conditions and how they must change. At the same time, Passover also asks us to look inward. "In each and every generation, we must try to experience personally the Exodus from Egypt"--so we have said as the holiday began. To experience the Exodus is to know what suffering and deprivation are, to understand that autonomy--not domination--is the true opposite of slavery. Retelling the Exodus helps us to recapture sensitivities which we may not have learned from our own experience...