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...year before Autumn's birth--a marriage arranged, according to former friends, to help the Mexican immigrant gain U.S. citizenship. Joan Green, who was a waitress at the Los Angeles restaurant where Upshaw's mother and Vasquez worked, says everyone there assumed Vasquez was the girl's father. "The shape of her eyes and her eyebrows are Jesus," Green says. "And if you look at her baby pictures, Autumn had pin-straight hair." Upshaw, through her attorney, asserts that she never lived or had sexual relations with Vasquez, who has not surfaced, though a marriage license confirming their nuptials...
...almost a decade, since the first Taurus was introduced in the mid 1980's, it had been a resounding success. The company had been in sour economic shape, but the car soon became the best-selling automobile in America, a ubiquitous vehicle in suburban driveways across the country. But compared to the European smooth-curved cars flooding the market, the old Taurus was beginning to look boxy. Tampering with it was ultimately necessary, but also immensely dangerous: as Mary Walton writes in Car, it was "like reformulating Coca-Cola...
...world's eighth largest trading economy, as well as China's premier asset. In 1996, the territory's entities channeled about $100 billion into mainland China, about 60 percent of all the capital injected into the country. The economic links with the mainland represent the most significant factor to shape the short-term future of the territory, which has acquired the new status of China's Special Administrative Region in the historic event of the handover on midnight of June 30. Indeed, it was in the aftermath of the embargo on China that the present economic might was being born...
...rang. The call was from his commander, warning that a practice assault planned for the base's bayonet-combat course might have to be called off: the mercury was creeping into the 90s. McQueen's team of drill sergeants--those fabled hard-noses delegated to whip raw recruits into shape--went into action. They dutifully set up a "wet-bulb globe-temperature-index calculator" and tested the air. Sure enough, it was too hot to attack...
...just the Army. Complaints are ricocheting in all branches of the service that "basic" has lost its edge--the rigors aren't all that rigorous, there's more silliness than saluting at shape-ups and there's altogether too much flirting between men and women. For most of this century, basic training was a deliberately harsh introduction to military life, a daily dose of screaming drill instructors dishing out vulgarity and physical intimidation to mortify--and motivate--trainees. These days drill sergeants spend more time mentoring than menacing. "We're no longer the charge-the-beach, stogie-in-the-mouth...