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...want to eat the best pickled-tea-leaf salad in Rangoon, possibly in all of Burma, go to Mrs. Greedy's tea shop, a collection of plastic furniture occupying the pavement opposite Sule Pagoda. And if you want to talk without fear of being overheard, do what my Burmese friend Ko Myo did when I met him there one evening: lift up one of Mrs. Greedy's tables and set it down several feet from the nearest customers. Even then you talk in an undertone. It's a reminder that despite Burma's tourist-friendly veneer?how many dictatorships have...
...feelings. In four long, hot days of campaigning, she visibly relaxes only once?when she calls a sudden unscheduled halt in the middle of a dust-bowl plain and strides out to where she has spied a group of female nomads under a tent of sticks and black plastic. The women have only the faintest idea of who she is. Sonia cannot understand their dialect. And the photographers, trailing far behind, cannot hope to capture this briefest of off-guard moments. But away from the crowds and the press and the party meetings, as Sonia Gandhi stands alone...
...have done pretty much. The seats, the floor. We took out the mirrors and changed the windows [which were partly opaque and plastic]. About their design, I thought, Wow. That is like East Coast Chucky Cheese...
...Every morning, more than a thousand diamond cutters file into Surat's spotless Venus Jewel factory, each pressing his thumb on an electronic fingerprint scanner that releases a turnstile. After removing footwear, to ensure they don't leave with diamonds stuck to their soles, the cutters are handed plastic bags filled with rough diamonds. Operating lathes and lasers, they slice, polish and facet the cloudy crystals into sparkling gems, churning out about $150 million worth each year. Venus and several hundred other factories, employing 300,000 cutters in total, have made Surat the heart of India's thriving diamond-polishing...
Monica Nassif, 47, was just a nose behind her in creating the Caldrea Co., based in Minneapolis, Minn. For years Nassif had shielded herself from the strong smell of common cleaning products by wrapping them in plastic bags as soon as she bought them and lighting fragrant candles in her home after cleaning. "Then," she says, "it just dawned on me: Why can't you have consistent fragrances running through an entire home-cleaning product line? Why can't a consumer love to buy a cleaning product instead of settling for whatever is on the supermarket shelf...