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...every tale that burnishes the myth of immigrant success, there are many others that speak, if not of failure, then of drudgery, loneliness and a future in a land that will never quite be home. Back in Fujian, Big Lin had a decent job with a construction firm. He made enough to play games of pool with his friends and occasionally treat himself to a seafood feast. Still, Fujian is a place which young men leave, so Big Lin made preparations in 1997 to go abroad, too. More than anything, he recalls, he wanted to see more than the rice...
AIRWOLF Not an automobile, Airwolf was, like KITT, a product of SDI-era techno-lust. "The Lady," a civilian Bell 222, was later sold to a German firm and used as an air ambulance. It crashed in 1991, killing three passengers...
...place of shady clientele and garishly-lit tables are a handful of carefree twenty-somethings sipping scorpion bowls in soft candlelight. “It’s definitely sexy,” says Web designer Darrin F. Samaha, creator of the restaurant’s cyber identity. His firm, Blue Coda, counts the Harvard Square Business Association, Gino’s Salon on Holyoke Street, and the Expository Writing department among its clients. “It’s not a re-branding, but it’s an update,” explains Hong Kong owner Paul...
...architect from the firm Behnisch Architekten, which is designing the science complex, said the firm will integrate green spaces into the building and utilize innovative heating and cooling systems that will allow the building to use at least 50 percent less energy than comparable buildings...
...Postcard: A Proposal for Simple and Predictable Federal Student Aid,” outlines a financial aid form that would fit on a single postcard. “There is pretty good evidence that some institutional financial aid programs have increased college enrollment rates. However, there is little firm evidence that federal student aid increases college attendance,” Scott-Clayton said. “It seems to us that the simpler systems were getting good results, while the complicated systems weren’t.” Critics have challenged that it is possible for families to conceal...