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Tsvangirai, 56, became accustomed to responsibility at an early age. The son of a carpenter and bricklayer from Gutu, south of the capital, Harare, and the eldest of nine, he quit school early to work the nickel mines of Mashonaland in northern Zimbabwe. In 10 years, he rose from plant operator to general foreman. Under the white government of the time, there was more than one way for a political aspirant to agitate for change. Mugabe fought for freedom; Tsvangirai chose the mine-workers union. In 1980, Mugabe, then 56, inaugurated a free Zimbabwe. Eight years later, Tsvangirai became secretary...
...named Oskar Blues' Dale's Pale Ale its favorite American pale ale). Oskar's sells a beer-flavored lip balm and some very intense beers. That means they're high alcohol (up to 10.5%, compared with 5% for a Coors) and have wads of hops--the green, pinecone-looking plant that gives beer its floral aroma and bitterness. In fact, bitterness is measurable (in International Bittering Units, or IBUS), and brewers are almost all men, so they tend to get competitive about how many IBUS they can get into a beer, no matter how insanely expensive and difficult...
...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...
...candidates' platforms are so alike, in fact, that they both point to the same example - a plant in Fairless Hills outside Philadelphia that revamped its business to make wind turbines after its steel operations shut down. Clinton held a rally there with 2,500 supporters Monday night, her voice echoing off of the building's massive corrugated frame. "A lot of big facilities like U.S. Steel and others have shut down or dramatically cut back, and we've lost a lot of jobs," Clinton told the crowd. "And so what we see here is a perfect example of the people...
...next day, addressing a gathering of the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO, Obama cited the same facility as the first of the next generation of American ingenuity. "We're going to transform shuttered steel mills to make windmills, plants that have closed will make solar panels," he said. "These kinds of jobs are bringing new life back to places that have been hard hit in recent decades - places like Fairless Hills in Bucks County, where the old U.S. Steel plant is now being used to make wind turbines...