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...hurl shoes at a poster, a flag or a statue during demonstrations in the Arab world. Perhaps the most iconic example was when U.S. troops helped bring down a statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad's Firdous Square on April 9, 2003. Hundreds of Iraqis assailed the giant metal corpse, beating it with their shoes in one of the defining images of the fall of Baghdad. How ironic then that President Bush's farewell trip to Iraq will be marked by the image of an angry Iraqi and his shoes. (See pictures of the fall of Saddam's statue...
...technocrats in Beijing pull this off? The country has an advantage: it has not yet leveraged its enormous domestic market. The service sector has huge potential. Consider entrepreneurs like Colleen Wang. Instead of employing low-wage metal benders, Wang's ad agency, Rayken, provides jobs for young, middle-class professionals: graphic designers, art directors, a couple of account executives and several copywriters...
...father immigrated to the U.S. seeking a job at Henry Ford's Model T plant, as the pioneering automobile entrepreneur was offering a large $5 a day. Following in his footsteps, both his sons ended up as career hourly employees at Ford, applying sealer to the seams of metal on the assembly line. "I worked hard, saved my money, and eventually opened a Coney Island diner and a pizzeria on the side while I worked full-time at the plant," says a proud Darwish, now married with two children. "Ford was good to us." (See pictures from Detroit in decline...
NASA has moved with uncharacteristic nimbleness in the last five years and is already cutting metal on the new machines in the hope of having crews in Earth orbit by 2015 and on the moon by 2020. Schedules have slipped some - the original plan was to launch the orbital missions in 2014 - and costs have swollen, though so far not dramatically. (See the Top 50 space moments since Sputnik...
...aluminum from flavoring the contents. The Sigg Traveler certainly is light and trendy-looking, and comes in two sizes and a variety colors, including classic, simple steel. One problem for those of us living in hotter climes: The bottle's mouth is too narrow for ice cubes. Also, metal water bottles can be used for warm beverages, but not boiling hot, and they sweat when filled with cold liquids - but Sigg, ever the savvy marketer, offers solutions: a hip Sigg carrying pouch and even a new hot-beverage Sigg. For cleaning, the company sells a specially designed brush and cleaning...