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...feelings of neglect. "We have not received money from the federal government since last September. It makes things very difficult," Usen told Time last month. Many see the nddc as mere window dressing. In March, a bomb was thrown into the car park of its Port Harcourt office, and plastic explosives were later smuggled into the building in an apparent attempt to blow...
...They can chew through almost anything,” Packer says. “That’s why plastic rodent-proof containers are now standard at dining hall storerooms...
There are, by one returning exile's count, 238 dance halls and karaoke bars along the main streets of Lhasa, and 658 brothels. Plastic palm trees and mushrooms that play pop songs dot the shiny boulevards. And where in 1978 there were fewer than 500 individually run enterprises in the whole of the Tibet Autonomous Region, more than 5,000 new such enterprises came up in 1993 alone. The Chinese who have occupied Tibet for almost half a century may have failed to destroy it with their bulldozers and guns, but the Lhasa of old has nonetheless been developed...
...three occasions, I watched them load computers onto export containers," says Dan Fuller, EPC's president. EPC "demanufactures" 150 tons of equipment a month for about $10 per computer. Workers take apart monitors by hand, sending the leaded glass tubing to a Missouri smelting operation. A hulking baler crunches plastic hardware to a tenth its size, and metals are extracted and sold...
SIENNA MILLER wasn't sure whether to be offended when STEVE BUSCEMI asked her to star in Interview. "I play a woman in the public eye who's a s_____ actress," says Miller. "She's had a boob job. She's just this plastic blond." Despite being known principally for her choppy romance with Jude Law, Miller is actually more of an organic-cotton blond, and the film is weighty material. Interview is one of three movies by Dutch director Theo van Gogh, who was murdered by Muslim extremists in 2004, that are being remade in English. Buscemi...