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Infamous as the scene of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, South Central is populated mostly by hardworking Latino and black families. Half its residents never completed ninth grade. Forty-three percent of its households earn less than $15,000 a year. The lure of crime and drugs is always whispering just down the alley. Yet Accelerated shows that even in this setting, academic excellence is possible...
...Tokyo that spring was a city mired in its ninth consecutive year of economic stagnation. Even Lucie had heard tales of Japan's fiscal woes - the depressed real estate market, the companies slashing expense accounts - but the city she saw was an entirely different spectacle. As she settled down in a "gaijin house" in central Tokyo and looked for work in some of Roppongi district's hostess clubs, Lucie, 21, saw a city that was almost carnal in its appetites and bacchanalian in its spirit. She would never have guessed this was a city in decline, capital of an empire...
...STMicroelectronics Public company based in Geneva, Switzerland CEO: Pasquale Pistorio What it does: Designs and develops semiconductors used in computer and telecommunications systems and consumer and automotive products Why it is hot: The company is now the world's sixth-largest semiconductor company, up from ninth in 1999. It posted year-over-year double-digit growth in revenues and net earnings in the first quarter www.st.com | last year...
Tanaka, 57, doesn't want to be Japan's ninth Prime Minister in 10 years. Necessarily. The daughter of legendary '70s PM Kakuei Tanaka is the most popular politician in Japan, speaking out against the factionalism and corruption that have left the nation powerless to snap out of its 10-year recession. Polls show her ahead in the popularity contest--but that's not the decisive factor for loyalty-driven Liberal Democratic Party Pooh-Bahs...
French has been producing comix for nearly ten years, including the series "Grit Bath," "Corny's Fetish," and "The Ninth Gland," all of which are included in this thick black and white collection. Nearly every one of the twenty-odd, short and long stories contain grotesqueries, mutilation, death or all three. What makes her work different from the boring, violent books that crowd the shelves is that she actually gets to the emotional center of what repulses...