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...along the way. "Don came up from the bottom and did not forget the lessons he learned from the street," says John Vaccaro, owner of Bett-A-Way Traffic Systems in South Plainfield, N.J., Arizona's national logistics provider for the past 14 years. "Now he's a street fighter in the boardroom...
...years ago hasn't helped matters, since it makes it easier for the U.S. to extradite white collar criminals from the U.K. than vice versa. Adding insult to injury, last month the Pentagon decided to stop using British jet engine technology made by Rolls Royce for the Joint Strike Fighter planes that are still in development - a decision that the British are still heavily lobbying to reverse. With all those tensions brewing, Rice and Straw's personal rapport may be more important than ever before...
...outside of their race because they are stereotypically viewed as “very un-masculine,” Lee says. He points out that few Asian men play for American professional sports teams. And in movies, he says, Asian men still only play two roles: the kung fu fighter and the angry store owner. Asian women, in contrast, are portrayed as having increasingly varied and prominent roles, Lee says.“It’s my goal to make the Asian man sexy again,” he jokes.Data on interracial marriage suggests that few Korean-American...
...everything from VCRs to refrigerators, the law serves as a sop to Japan's large electronics manufacturers. Some of the loudest objections have come from the otaku?particularly video-game collectors, a small but fanatical community supporting a lively trade in classics like All-Star Baseball '97 and Virtua Fighter 2 that only play on older machines. "Worst Law Ever!" screamed Weekly Playboy, a tabloid geared towards young Japanese men. While sellers can submit older products for recertification, and some game platforms?most Nintendo decks, along with later versions of Sony's PlayStation 1 and 2?are spared...
...sparked widespread resistance, with opponents ranging from a few tribal holdouts to the Governor of Utah. The state has filed suit in federal court to void the NRC license on the grounds that the spent fuel would sit dangerously close to an Air Force training path. F-16 fighter jets roar overhead on 7,000 sorties a year. Should one crash into the steel-and-concrete casks, state attorneys argue, cancer-causing radiation could waft over Salt Lake City. Moreover, the state says, used fuel rods, parked aboveground, would be a target for car bombers or airplane hijackers--"a terrorist...