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...chin ever since. But the sense of panic is something new. Until recently, Asia's policymakers and business leaders were confident that it would not be long before American consumers started partying again. Like kids waiting for a joyride in the backseat of a souped-up Mustang, Asia's markets cheered each time U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan cranked the engine with yet another interest rate cut. But the car never budged. And as June turned to July, the mid-year profit warnings began to roll in from Asia's biggest U.S. customers: companies like Advanced Micro Devices, Compaq...
...Dome. Young fans scream, "Ben! I love you, Ben!" The actor winks at the camera, which projects his face on two screens, and the crowd of 30,000 goes wild. Then Affleck, flanked by director Michael Bay and producer Jerry Bruckheimer, hops onto the trunk of a yellow Ford Mustang convertible that wheels around the stadium. As the lights dim, color floods a screen that is triple the size of a tennis court. Japan is about to meet Pearl Harbor?again...
...gear sprockets. Around him a few teenage boys and girls are gathered, smoking cigarettes, some squatting on the balls of their feet, their intent faces peering down at scattered engine parts. The sound is the clatter of adolescent boys. Whether the vehicle in question is a '65 Mustang or a '99 Honda GSR motorcycle, the posturing of the too cool motorhead trying to goose a few more horsepower out of his engine while at the same time look bitchin' in front of a crowd of slightly younger female spectators is identical whether in Bakersfield or Bangkok...
...gear sprockets. Around him a few teenage boys and girls are gathered, smoking cigarettes, some squatting on the balls of their feet, their intent faces peering down at scattered engine parts. The sound is the clatter of adolescent boys. Whether the vehicle in question is a '65 Mustang or a '99 Honda GSR motorcycle, the posturing of the too-cool motorhead trying to goose a few more horsepower out of his engine while at the same time look bitchin' in front of a crowd of slightly younger female spectators is identical, whether you are in Bakersfield or Bangkok...
...wheelchair convoy of accessible housing advocates; and a giant elephant head with a cleverly hinged trunk. One protesting canine had "LOVE" shaved into his flank (missed, it seems, by the PETA contingent in giant pig costumes who cruised through the throng in a red Mustang convertible). Tuesday's demonstrators primarily targeted homelessness and poverty, with the occasional chant against HMOs and for the abolition of private property. Protesters were by and large young and white, with an odd passel here and there of mostly white demonstrators pushing strollers and carrying mostly black poor and homeless children...