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...video rages across the Web, it leaves in its wake a flood of commentary from viewers who see it as everything from a tasteless marketing ploy to a brutally effective critique of the media's portrayal of the banlieues, the desolate and poor neighborhoods on the edge of French cities, which exploded in violence in the autumn of 2005. On a British video webforum, a viewer named Scooper enthused, "awesome - powerful and driven like a car with no brakes," adding "finally a video that makes me feel something!" Blogging in Finland, DJ Orion called it Justice's "worst video...
...trick of any one-man documentary is the personality of the subject: a powerful voice that brings perspective to an unusual life story. Tyson has all that. A poor Brooklyn kid who was led early by childhood friends ("Very few of them are functioning adults right now"), he was a 12-year-old in a detention home when trainer-manager Cus d'Amato became his surrogate father, raising Mike with the d'Amato family, giving the boy focus and purpose as a boxer ("He broke me down and rebuilt me"). Tyson was an apt pupil: he obsessively studied old films...
...devastation is a reminder that for all of its explosive economic growth, parts of China are still painfully poor. While cities like Shanghai boast some of the world's tallest and most advanced buildings, rural areas are often plagued by substandard structures. During the 1990s China updated its building codes to standards that approximate those of the U.S. and Europe, says Greg Wong, a Hong Kong-based structural engineer who has worked in China since 1985. But those standards aren't always met, he says, especially in the countryside. "If they spent more money and build buildings half as good...
...drama on the Greek island suggests that police round-ups, public ire and poor living conditions aren't about to deter people fleeing their poorer, troubled homelands. Asked why children are sent off alone from their home countries, Ioannou paused, and said: "They come for their lives...
Some are involved already. Celebrated actor Kyaw Thu, who was jailed for a month for joining last September's demonstrations, runs the Free Funeral Services Society, a private charity offering free cremations for the poor. It is now operating its own relief effort, with volunteers at its Rangoon headquarters loading up delta-bound trucks with donated goods...