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George Taylor fought the Empire of Japan as a U.S. Marine in World War II, and he still has bitter memories. But now as mayor of Princeton, Indiana (pop. 8,100), he gladly put them aside last spring when Toyota unveiled plans to build a $700 million pickup- truck plant in his economically sagging town. "I've changed my mind a little bit," Taylor, 74, says. "The way I look at it, the Japanese are coming over here and giving American workers good jobs, while American companies are closing factories and taking work overseas for low wages." In a sign...
...dignitaries planted 10 Japanese maples to symbolize Toyota's new U.S. roots. For Senator Jay Rockefeller, landing Toyota marked the capstone of a 20-year crusade to boost the economy of one of the country's poorest states. Thanks to Toyota, Rockefeller says, Buffalo (pop. 969) is "going to become a player in the global marketplace...
Divorce is traumatic at any age. But for middle-aged women whose husbands leave them for what Bette Midler in the movie calls Pop-Tarts, the emotional and economic devastation can be profound. "Remember," says Lynne Gold-Bikin, a divorce lawyer and former chair of the American Bar Association's Family Law Section, "the first wife is normally the one that lives over the store, who puts hubby through school, who works and raises the kids." The second wife gets not only the fruits of his career building but also the benefits of his midlife interest in family. "Now, when...
Johnathan Prevette met the world last week, and the world--or at least plenty of TV crews--beat a path to his door, in the town of Lexington, North Carolina (pop. 16,583). Once there, they heard the alarming tale--as Johnathan and his parents told it--of the first-grader at Southwest Elementary who planted a kiss on a classmate's cheek, partly because he liked her and partly, he said, because she asked him to. But a teacher saw him, the girl complained, and Johnathan was disciplined by being barred from his class for a day, causing...
Still, Washington stands by his love of material pop culture. His Pforzheimer single is decorated with LP covers, relics from the 1980s including the fathers of hip-hop, the Beastie Boys...