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Across the West, parched foliage has been ignited by dry-lightning storms and sometimes sparks from defective mufflers. But according to California fire officials, as many as one-third of the wildfires have been set by arsonists. Incendiary devices were found at the site of the deadly California fire in the Baldwin Hills area of Los Angeles...
...unit was sent to the eastern border to battle drug trafficking. But in the late 1990s, Lazcano and more than 30 other members of the special forces began working for drug lord Osiel Cárdenas, head of the Matamoros-based Gulf cartel, which at the time controlled almost one-third of the Mexican drug trade. As Cárdenas' enforcers, protecting drug shipments and rubbing out foes, the gang members--who dubbed themselves Zetas after the radio call name of their original leader, who was killed in 2002--were paid as much as $15,000 a month, compared with their...
...reports that "Deep Throat was made for just $25,000. It grossed more than $600 million." (That last stat is a flexible one, like a guy's street-corner boast about his penis size. It's a tough sell, considering that the movie was banned in 27 states and didn't play the major theater chains.) Whatever the gross, Damiano didn't see much of it. The Perainos told him he was cut out of his one-third share of profits. And you don't argue with the made men. In the documentary, three decades later, Damiano is still afraid...
...secret to Nagoya's success: the region excels at monozukuri-"making things." Around here you will quickly be disabused of the notion that it is impossible for Japanese manufacturers to compete against China's low labor costs. Fully one-third of the region's economy is tied to manufacturing, among the highest rates in the nation. China and Korea still cannot match many of the design and process-improvement techniques that are invented and perfected here, neither can they produce the high-end, R&D-heavy, design-intensive products like capital equipment, aerospace equipment and industrial ceramics that are Nagoya...
...year, projects the Tax Policy Center, a nonpartisan research group whose estimates are widely accepted. Put another way: 3 million taxpayers will fall victim to the AMT this year; that number is scheduled to climb to 19 million as soon as next year and to 30 million--one-third of all taxpayers...