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...German sports cars. Superseding the capital's dictator-chic hotels from the 1970s--massive concrete towers with prostitutes in the bars and spies in the lobbies--modern boutique inns are sprouting in renovated courtyard palaces of the Old City. Among Syria's élite, the Baathist-apparatchik look--leather jacket, bell-bottoms, cigarette holder--is giving way to skinny jeans and cappuccinos...
...convince them there's a problem," he says. "You've got to start with the data." Collecting and analyzing data from the state's 62 counties would have been costly, so the task force went to RealtyTrac. New York was hardly alone. "RealtyTrac does the shoe leather," says Israel Klein, deputy staff director for Congress's Joint Economic Committee, which shepherded July's federal housing legislation. "When we want to try to get a picture of what communities are hit hardest, their data is very helpful...
...Minister Pham Khoi Nguyen called it "not just a violation but, in fact, treacherous behavior." An unprecedented crackdown followed: a Korean MSG manufacturer was nabbed dumping toxic waste. Several foreign-owned starch factories, which can release cyanide during processing, were shut down. On October 10, inspectors caught a Vietnamese leather tanning company pumping carcinogenic chemicals into a river in Ho Chi Minh City...
...propellers behind the movies and stars that captivate global audiences. It takes good instincts, guts, a vision, hyper-awareness of social trends and pop culture, and excellent budgeting skills to pull off a box-office hit. So, dispose of that image of the cigar-puffing dude in the big leather chair, because he’s probably taking orders from Stacey Snider...
...draws over footage of actual people; Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was one of the first major films to use rotoscoping, while more recent examples include A Scanner Darkly and Waking Life). "I'm going to kick some ass with my own pipe wrench," when the leather-clad dude pulls out his weapon (where the hell was he hiding that one?). And, the most brilliant line in the video-"Band montage...