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...existing cafés were a bit banal, and that if you put together good design, good marketing, a good location and some hard work, you would have a 'cocktail explosif,'" says Jean-Louis. The detonator was an unknown designer named Philippe Starck, who modeled the interior after the railroad station in Budapest. Kaboom! Before long, Starck was a star and Café Costes was taking in five times as much money as it had before his makeover. The brothers have been cloning versions of Café Costes ever since. The formula that the Costes have applied is hands...
...vicious army of Central American gangbangers called the Mara Salvatrucha are known for assaulting, robbing and raping passing migrants. From there, Uxpanapa clients are often loaded onto freight trains for a two-day journey to Veracruz, Mexico. Hundreds of migrants can be pressed into empty cargo cars, especially when railroad security are paid to look the other way. Nearer the U.S. border, they are usually handed off to partner cells that promise to get them deep into America, beyond U.S. immigration authorities, who now have checkpoints well north of the border...
With campaigning for the November elections already underway, the Council took on two other hotbed issues at the meeting—the Harvard-focused rezoning of the Riverside neighborhood and the controversial effort by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) to sell the air rights above the Porter Square railroad tracks to a housing developer...
...America's first female Chinese arrival, Afong Moy, was brought to New York to serve as a living curio in a museum exhibition .) The stories of successive waves of Chinese newcomers who were witnesses and participants in America's most dynamic moments?the Gold Rush, construction of the Transcontinental Railroad, Reconstruction, the civil-rights movement?can't help but be engaging. And Chang, whose 1997 The Rape of Nanking was a bestseller, is a solid storyteller with a good eye for human detail and a strong sense of narrative...
Harvard’s purchase agreement on the plot includes guarantees that the turnpike and the railroad can stay in place for perpetuity. Despite these protections, at the time of the sale several top state and city officials said they feared Harvard would stymie the development of the turnpike or use its $17 billion endowment to induce the railroad to relocate, causing unknown damage to the area’s transportation network and economy...