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...CONSTRUCTION A recent industry study showed that at least one-third of St. Louis' 80,000 construction workers are expected to retire in the next five years--a microcosm of the situation nationwide; the industry needs to attract 240,000 new workers each year, from project managers to iron workers, just to compensate for the exodus. The top tradespeople in their fields, such as plumbers, electricians, carpenters, bricklayers, roofers and painters, can make upward of $100,000 a year...
...only way to visit these unheralded jewels is on foot or by bike?in many cases the tracks are mere goat trails, impassable by car. Most hotels will rent out heavy, iron one-speeds for less than a dollar a day. They might not be high-performance?in fact, most seem to date back to the days of the British Raj?but there is no risk of losing one to theft. The best time to see the temples is during the hours just after dawn?by 10 a.m. the temperature reaches a blistering 42?C, the tour buses congregate...
...plentiful but so is the agony. Drug gangsters prowl the dusty streets, gunshot blasts mix with the electronic dancebeats, and racism has merely developed more nuance. This is where the author's journalism chops really come into play, and the result is intensely compelling. One can envision the corrugated-iron homes from the motorway, or the brightness of the city making the place seem "dry-cleaned, stripped of all ambiguity." Fear usually brings out the best in writers, and Aitkenhead is no exception...
...took revenge. "About 250 of them surrounded the house," recalls his brother, Bisseswar Yadav. "They came into the house and tied all the adults' hands. They demanded to know where the guns were and, when we didn't tell them, they began to kick us and beat us with iron rods and sticks. While some of them began looting the house, two men put a wooden box under my brother's legs. As two men held him down, two others beat his legs, up and down with rods and sticks until they broke them over the edge. Then they...
...Whip, has already lapped Democrats in the race to prove who is Israel's strongest ally on Capitol Hill. On April 3, long before Israel's diehard supporters in the Democratic Party had begun to wake up, DeLay visited Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri - site of Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain " speech 56 years earlier - to give an impassioned defense of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's military offensive against the Palestinians. Yasir Arafat is "completely untrustworthy," DeLay thundered. Instead of trying to be a neutral broker in the deadly conflict, George Bush should "support Israel as they dismantle...