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Outside the North Korean city of Kaesong, there is an industrial park that is meant to be a symbol of a new era of cooperation between Stalinist North Korea and democratic South Korea. Located close to their heavily armed border, the park houses South Korean factories that crank out clothing and other merchandise produced with the help of more than 23,500 North Korean laborers. It's a bubble of congeniality between two countries that are still technically at war - one that abruptly burst on March 24, when North Korean authorities ordered 11 South Korean government officers stationed at Kaesong...
...from downtown Hanoi, shimmering emerald paddy fields are now bisected by a four-lane highway. Not far from where rice farmer Nguyen Thi Lan stands weeding her fields in calf-deep muck, a Singapore-Vietnamese joint venture will soon build a 1,700-acre (700 hectare) industrial park and township, turning this rural area into a satellite city. Trang Hieu Dung, director of planning at Vietnam's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, says that the country is losing about 99,000 acres (40,000 hectares) of rice paddies every year to construction of cities, highways and industrial zones...
...October when Lee's predecessor, Roh Moo Hyun, held a summit with Kim in Pyongyang and agreed to provide a laundry list of goodies to the impoverished North, including the construction of shipbuilding facilities, the development of a special economic zone and the expansion of the Kaesong industrial park...
...next stop was Boulder, where we visited Avery Brewing. While located in some kind of industrial park, it has a lovely, Napa-like tasting room. Avery makes some of the most extreme beers in the Denver area: with a high cost (some are $10 for a 12-oz. [40 mL] bottle), a high alcohol content (as much as 18%) and a high IBU count (more than 100, which is a whole lot when you consider that Budweiser's is 8.5). "We make beer for weirdos," explains president Adam Avery. For dinner, we went to the Kitchen, a local organic restaurant...
...Charles Patrick Shields was a Democratic committeeman in the 43rd Ward. As you might figure by his name, he was an Irish-American classic. He lived with Grandmom in a row house in Nicetown, on 15th Street, a short walk from the busy corner of Broad Street and Hunting Park. Every night when he was working the night shift, he'd head off to the plant wearing a peacoat and a cap. He could have been leaving for an evening in County Cork...