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...Arkansas, that excitement emanates primarily from one company: Wal-Mart. State officials say Wal-Mart alone was responsible for bringing 3,000 jobs to northwest Arkansas in 2002--in part because its biggest vendors maintain a presence near its Bentonville headquarters. A study by the University of Arkansas projects the population of Benton and Washington counties (which include Fayetteville and Bentonville) will nearly double by 2025, to 680,000. Unemployment in the region is about 2.5%, less than half the national average...
...steel towns had in the past, Wal-Mart has a multiplier effect, creating work for outside service providers. The Tobees want a wedge of that pie. Cary, 39, and Cheryl, 36, moved their video-production business in July to Fayetteville from Fort Smith, Ark., and have already bid on business with Wal-Mart. "I am hoping for the overflow," says Cary. "You never know when they will need help with a project...
...kiss health insurance goodbye and these days is struggling just to pay the rent. For the past two years, this thirtysomething has been juggling as many as six free-lance projects at a time while taking on survival jobs like handing out Pepsi samples in Wal-Mart. "I'm barely scraping by," says Nieva-Woodgate, who commanded a six-figure salary during the tech boom. And, she adds, if landing free-lance work sounds tough, try getting paid for it: "You're such a small fry, companies pay you whenever the hell they feel like...
...getting dark and cold in this part of West Virginia. But here in rehab the lights are bright and Jessica Lynch is in shorts, a baggy T shirt and sneakers from Wal-Mart that are a half size too big, to make room for the brace that keeps her left foot from dragging...
...stop men like Ahmed. It was a desire to do something significant with his life and gain notice that put him on the path that would eventually lead him to Fallujah. "Right after the first Gulf War," he recalls, "I was driving back from my job at Wal-Mart when I saw a busful of reservists returning home. People were clapping and cheering and honking their horns. These guys were heroes. I thought to myself, That's what I want--recognition, a sense of accomplishment." And so he enlisted. Trained as a paratrooper, Bear served in Afghanistan last year...