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...reality, the story of Ji and Hsu is more one of dogged, thrifty perseverance. The two became friends in the late 1980s working for a Los Angeles scrap-metal business that exported to China. Hsu was a Taiwanese immigrant who arrived in 1984. Ji came to Los Angeles as a graduate student in 1987, having recently earned his M.B.A., and was sending money home to his wife and daughter in Shanghai...
...forgotten. If Walker hadn't come up with a two month supply of wheat this summer, they would have starved to death by now. The Chiclets are trying to arrange permanent housing for them before winter hits; just in case, Col. Walker is having stoves made out of scrap metal to heat the tents...
This is unacceptable. Manufacturers and oil refineries that cannot afford to reduce pollution to today’s standards should not be operating in the first place. The government should scrap Bush’s New Source Review changes and instead force all factories that pollute above modern limits to clean up their acts. The EPA should enforce these limits, with high financial penalties if necessary. Many companies have put off environmental improvements for far to long, and the burden should not fall on the American people who breathe the polluted...
Gore has been marching leftward into treacherous issue terrain. His speech on the economy nine days after he spoke out on Iraq was timid and unfocused, sidestepping the question of how to respond to Bush's tax cut. Gore now tells TIME that he would "scrap the whole thing and start over," with less dramatic cuts aimed at the middle class. Last week he startled an audience in Manhattan with the revelation that as the country copes with a health-care system in crisis, he has "reluctantly" come to support a radical idea that has long been a liberal dream...
...discuss the décor. Patricio comments that bright colors and multiple mirrors make the place look like a Discovery Zone. I concur. I comment on the load-bearing pillar in the middle of the dining area that seems to have been decorated with spray-painted pieces of scrap metal. It looks like something exploded at the steel mill. I ask Patricio if this type of decoration is common practice in Mexico. He ignores...