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Close to half a million bikers will pour into Sturgis, S. Dak, this week for the annual motorcycle rally, revving their hogs to a deafening pitch and baring their Harley-Davidson tattoos for all to see. But no matter how much leather they don, most will have a hard time looking tough. There will probably be far more aging white-collar baby boomers trying to recapture their imaginary rebellious youth than Hell's Angels flaunting it. The average age of a Harley devotee is now 45, up from 37 a decade ago; 20% are over...
Peer pressure can hit lower-income families especially hard. George Valadez, a hot-dog and beer vendor at Chicago's Wrigley Field, has sole custody of his three young kids. His concept of being a good provider is to pour every spare cent into them. The family's two-bedroom apartment is crammed with five television sets, three video-game consoles and two VCRs. Next month his kids want to attend a church camp in Michigan that costs $100 a child. So two weeks ago, abandoning their custom of giving away outgrown clothes and toys to neighbors, the family held...
That's a tribute to Bush's willingness to take on his party's anti-immigration wing--and to the reality of two entwined economies. In the past 15 years, entire sectors of American business have become dependent on low-wage illegal laborers to wash dishes, pour foundations, plant impatiens and butcher cattle. And the exodus has had a stranger impact south of the border: rural Mexico has hollowed out so dramatically that many villages are void of men and the agrarian economy is failing. But the workers up north are sending so much money back home--$8 billion...
...familiar it all looks. A three-deep phalanx of police block access to Tiananmen Square until a crowd of thousands, led by young toughs using bicycles as battering rams, breaks the line and surges through. By midnight, tens of thousands of cheering Chinese pour into the political epicenter of Beijing, defying orders to leave. Gangs of bare-chested teenagers climb lampposts to lead the masses in sloganeering. A potentially grim scene for any government. Yet every once in a lucky while, history repeats itself not as tragedy but as fun. Nearly everybody is waving a red flag. Chanters yell: "Long...
...sometimes jokingly, and sometimes not. (So far, Lisa’s always been asked to Canada and I’ve been asked to go home with them. Go figure.) Every day, we commiserate that in order to earn a decent wage we need to chuckle and pour coffee to men who joke about wanting “somethin’ not on the menu.” But, with three more years of college ahead for each of us, we’ve both overcome the urge to be too polite and make a guy feel unsketchy...