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...much from The Jungle as it does from Schlosser's book. Here the immigrants are illegals from Mexico, but their path, their Calvary, is the same. They survive a perilous trip into the U.S. and are assigned a literally vomitous job handling cattle innards at the "Uni-globe" meat plant. The women endure rough handling by their sexually avaricious overlord; some of the men get mangled in the machinery, only to be told they're not eligible for insurance...
...Harvard wants to plant a new institutional complex on Centre Street on open space that is not zoned for institutional uses. Institutional creep along the Centre Street corridor means the loss of open space and more congested roads during rush hours. Therefore, no new complexes should be permitted at Centre and Weld Streets unless Harvard agrees to permanent protection of open space as a natural buffer between institutions and surrounding neighborhoods. What we ask of Harvard today is actually more of a compromise than what Harvard demanded from its neighbors 40 and 50 years before...
...sales by volume of premium tequila jumped by a total of over 50% in 2003 and 2004 - a trend some attribute to increased acceptance of, and appreciation for, Hispanic and Mexican cultures among Stateside consumers. For the uninitiated, proper tequila is the liquor of the blue agave plant, which, contrary to popular belief, is not a cactus but a lily (and strictly speaking, spirits made from other kinds of agave are not tequila at all, but mezcal). Much like whiskey or wine, tequila has its own system of classifications. Tequila that has been aged for two months is known...
...latest surge in gas prices. "We have some dealers we haven't been able to contact," says Ford spokesman George Pipas, who estimates that 40 Ford and Lincoln-Mercury dealerships in southern Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana were affected by the storm. Katrina forced Nissan to close its assembly plant in Canton, Miss., 211 miles north of New Orleans. When the plant reopened, employees reported they were having a hard time finding enough gas to make the commute, says Nissan spokesman Fred Standish. The only nugget of good news: Katrina doesn't appear to have disrupted supplies of critical material like...
Consumers can expect to pay more for basics such as coffee, bananas and paint (made at idled chemical-processing plants in the Gulf). New Orleans is the second largest coffee port in the country, after New York, and stores 27% of the nation's beans. "Right now those supplies are off the table," says Joe De Rupo of the National Coffee Association. Imports are being rerouted to Houston, Miami and Jacksonville, but no one knows whether the 211 million lbs. sitting in bags in New Orleans is salvageable or whether the roasting equipment, possibly submerged in contaminated water...