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...early morning light slowly illuminates the mishmash of streets around the Krishnarajendra Market in central Bangalore, pushcart vendors wade through ankle-deep mud and cow manure and past heaping piles of cabbage leaves and rotting tomatoes. Skinny porters doubled over beneath burlap sacks full of vegetables shuffle through the quagmire, trying to avoid the trucks that belch blue clouds of diesel exhaust and the sacred but occasionally cantankerous cows munching on piles of trash. Women squat behind piles of vegetables they will carry to distant neighborhoods for a tiny profit. The grocery business in India is choreographed chaos, a commercial...
...this is not a story about overnight success. For one thing, Edwards is 48, which pretty much disqualifies her from child prodigy-hood. For another, she was already successful. She's a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and her short stories have garnered her a Whiting Award, a Pushcart Prize and a National Magazine Award, among many others. She's a professor at the University of Kentucky. Her writing already made her a living. It just hadn't made her famous...
...family since my wife's grandparents had lived on the Lower East Side. Her father's mother had a compelling story, having come from a small village in Latvia where the family shared a single pair of shoes. In New York City, she sold vegetables from a pushcart and eventually opened a successful dress shop in New Jersey...
...believe the politicians and the bureaucrats would be able to pull it off honestly. And yet Castillo could use those stamps. Four years ago, he lost his job as a janitor at the Quezon City Hall. He and his family are now scavengers, living out of a wooden pushcart. This is Castillo's idea of happiness: "Once I found nearly half a fried chicken wrapped in plastic," he told me. "I knew it was still edible because it was still cold, just came from the refrigerator. We had a feast that day." Around the world, people are searching for happiness...
Little Russia came to Harvard Square in the mid-1970s, when Schiller rented a storefront in the Garage so small that he had to put his items on a pushcart and roll it into the hall to sell. In 1978 the store jumped to its current building on Mt. Auburn Street...