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...currently holding casting calls in 21 American cities to find the next 16 individuals who will play "Degrade Myself in Front of the Nation." When they announced that there would be such an open audition in my hometown, Hollywood, I decided to attend and observe firsthand the would-be Survivors, the good citizens of this burg who would risk everything to be the next Richard or Rudy...
...department of the Osaka railway. The man who may become Japan's next Prime Minister impressed his bosses so much that they made him a supervisor. Then one night Nonaka overheard a worker say something so upsetting that he quit his job. Bitter and determined, he returned to his hometown of Sonobe, where he ran for a seat on the town council, beginning a remarkable political career that has taken him to the inner circle of Japan's political Elite. What had the worker said? "Nonaka-san is flying high in Osaka, but when he returns to Sonobe...
...skipped lunch hours and stayed late after school to get a turn at the terminal. Neither of his parents?his dad is a machinist, his mom a store clerk?had even used a typewriter. Hungry for more than he could learn in his small hometown, Eyestrain went to Manila at age 17 to attend Systems Technology Institute, a technical college that offers low-cost programming courses. The classes were disappointing: Eyestrain found that he knew more than his teachers. "They exempted me from classes and got me to help administer the computers," he recalls. He tried another computer school...
Instead of returning to his backward hometown, however, Eyestrain stayed in Manila and became a cyberthief. By hacking into several e-commerce websites, he has built up a database of hundreds of credit card numbers. To use them without risking arrest, he set up a mailing system through a chat room, a kind of Net Bandits Clearing House. It works like this: "I order two monitors, they get sent to an address in Tacoma, Washington, that the guy I met in the chat room has access to, and then he forwards me one monitor and keeps the other for himself...
...interview live from Davos one week and be back in class studying for the upcoming A-level exams the next. It helps that Hadfield commutes to Schoolsnet's London headquarters only once or twice a week; the firm's tech operations, which he oversees, are based in his hometown of Brighton. He also guards his off hours fiercely, saving time to watch England soccer games with friends and to go nightclub hopping, "especially if I have to be in class at eight the next morning...