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...what life is like today, as well as a re-creation of what it's like to walk down the street in New York. There could be a Hassidic Jew on your left mumbling things you can't understand and an Asian hipster on your right on his cell phone. It's a complete cast of characters saying things that are being thrown at you simultaneously...
...according to Hong Kong-based consulting firm Enright, Scott & Associates. Exports from Shenzhen reached $101.5 billion in 2005?13% of China's total. Today the city is home to some of China's most important electronics manufacturers, such as telecom-equipment firm Huawei Technologies and mobile-phone maker ZTE. (Electronics products make up about 60% of Shenzhen's industrial output, according to Enright, Scott & Associates...
...Your call cannot be completed, because the subscriber has been bombed or kidnapped." PHONE MESSAGE popular among mobile-phone users in Baghdad. Cell-phone subscriptions in Iraq have boomed, increasing from 1.4 million in 2003 to more than 7 million today
...billion, started Takefuji in 1966 with just four employees and grew it into one of Japan's most profitable companies, famously claiming to have slept only two hours a night on his road to success. He resigned in disgrace in 2004 after being convicted of illegally tapping the phone of a journalist who had written negative articles on the company. DIED. Melissa Hayden, 83, lyrical, vibrant ballerina who became an international standout in George Balanchine's famously starless New York City Ballet; in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Such was her status in a company known for downplaying individual artists that...
...Streets that had been nearly empty for a month were now snarled with traffic. Some people had come to see their homes, while others were merely curious, and snapped pictures with cell-phone cameras. The still-smoldering lunar craters of what used to be residential blocks were now filled with a parade of people, scrambling over the concrete slabs and broken widow panes, as if participants in some mass funeral procession, choking on dust and that special acrid smell that comes from burnt buildings. In some areas, rescue crews were still looking for bodies...