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...businesses and dozens of public buildings went up in smoke. And 82% of respondents in a recent poll were skeptical that the government's plans would be enough to fix the problem; 86% expect future outbursts of violence. That sense of futility is what consigned the projects to slow decay in the first place. "People make the mistake of talking about a banlieue problem; it's really a problem of French society as a whole," says Marie-Louise Fort, mayor of Sens - where one-third of the town's 38,000 population lives in public housing. "The ills...
...would like to nominate Carlo Petrini, who was the founder of the slow-food movement. That organized rebuke of fast-food culture began in Italy and has since grown into an international force for pleasant living, sustainable agriculture, heritage animal protection and even cultural survival. It is still largely under the mainstream's radar, but its trade shows in Torino, Italy, regularly attract 140,000 people...
...past year, Saigon has seen some new competition for foreign dollars. As international corporations seek alternatives to China's rising labor costs, Vietnam's north-where wages are cheaper than both southern Vietnam and coastal China-is starting to reap the benefits of slow but steady free-market reforms. Last year, Hanoi for the first time overtook Ho Chi Minh City in FDI, capturing $1.6 billion of the total $6.2 billion. Saigon's share was $738 million. In the past five years, numerous foreign manufacturers have set up shop in the capital, among them Fujitsu, LG Electronics and Daewoo. "People...
...progress on any of those fronts. Still, the two pledged closer cooperation and the atmospherics were cordial, if not friendly. The two men had met five times previously and have a good working relationship, and Administration officials portrayed the improvement in relations between the two nations as slow and steady...
...didn’t expect to beat him. When you add juggling, though, it can really slow you down, if nothing else, because it takes so much focus to continue juggling...