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They come by shiny air-conditioned sedan, by bus and truck and on foot. Some are sick, many hungry or thirsty. All are desperate. They are among the 2 million Arabs and Asians driven into Jordan by the threat of war. More than 210,000 refugees have arrived in Jordan during the past three weeks, but only 67,000 have been able to leave the country...
Conspicuous consumption, that signature vice of the 1980s, was rarely more evident than at the 17 toy stores of Manhattan-based F.A.O. Schwarz, where toddlers of the rich and famous could acquire an 8-ft. stuffed giraffe ($4,500) or a child-size Jaguar sedan ($6,000). Now the 128-year-old retailer has joined still another trend: foreign ownership. A Dutch department-store conglomerate, Koninklijke Bijenkorf Beheer (KBB), has agreed to buy the toy retailer from the Morse-Harris Group, owners since 1985. Estimated price: $40 million. Once America's top toy merchant, Schwarz was - losing customers...
Bismarck was convinced, and probably rightly, that France would never permit a united Germany, so he provoked Emperor Napoleon III into a misguided declaration of war. Moltke invaded France with 300,000 men, trapped the French at Sedan and captured the Emperor and 100,000 of his men. When an improvised government in Paris proclaimed the Third Republic and vowed to continue the war, Moltke insisted on besieging Paris. By now it seemed clear to the German princes who had followed Prussia into the war that their future lay in a united Germany under Prussian leadership. Bismarck artfully arranged...
...Little Ducc" went on his first "mission," a drive-by shooting, as an observer when he was twelve. Freshly inducted into a local Crip gang, he drove in a sedan he describes as a GTA as casually as if he were saying GTO or MG, though it is police parlance for "grand theft auto" -- a stolen car. He is 14 now, in juvenile detention, and mainly remembers the noise. "A lot of yelling, some shooting, and then the police sirens." He never knew what prompted the attack. His "homeboys" had brought him along to test his mettle, and he acquitted...
...vehicles in Europe within the next few years, and Ford is testing an electrified model of the Aerostar van. Not to be left behind, GM Chairman Roger Smith announced last week that his company will proceed with commercial production of its sleek battery-powered Impact, although experts say the sedan is not likely to reach dealer showrooms before...