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...While he carefully maintains his house, white picket fence and all, the neighbors' homes have chipped paint and the sag of misuse. He's a cowboy stuck in the desolate Midwest, and instead of stubborn Indians and stud gunslingers, he's surrounded by Hispano-punks and Hmong immigrants from Southeast Asia. And now Tao (Bee Vang), a Hmong teen who's bullied by both ethnic groups, has broken into Walt's garage to steal the old man's most treasured possession: his 1972 Gran Torino. (See the 100 best movies of all time...
...grew up in Southeast Michigan in the past four decades, as I did, you were raised among reminders that things used to be better, once, before you came along. The empty factories. The abandoned blocks in Detroit. The grade-school U.S. maps with the retro pictures, on Michigan's mitten, of Model T's and '57 Chevys. The headlines from the 1970s read like the headlines of 2008: The mayor of Detroit was in trouble. The Lions were losing. And the auto industry was disappearing...
Dongguan, along with a handful of similar nearby towns, is the real Santa's factory at the North Pole. A sprawling, charmless city of 7.5 million that sits 50 miles (80 km) southeast of Guangzhou, the provincial capital of Guangdong in southern China, Dongguan produces a vast amount of the toys that will end up under Christmas trees around the world. Toys were one of the critical, low-wage, low-tech industries on which China built its economic ascent over the past 30 years. But as workers such as Wei know better than anyone, 2008 is the year that that...
...their conflict potential. There is the loss of half the Aral Sea to Soviet-era irrigation, and the melting of the Himalayan glaciers (which feed rivers from which 500 million people draw water); and there are Chinese plans to dam the upper Mekong, halving water flow to 65 million Southeast Asians. In a 2003 report, the U.N. Environment Program said water shortages already affected 400 million people and predicted that number would multiply tenfold by 2050. At that time, more than a sixth of the world's population, 1.1 billion people, had erratic supplies of clean water or none...
...They must expand overseas to maintain growth. There simply aren't enough Japanese to buy their products back home. With domestic car sales slowing, Honda, for instance, just opened a second plant in Thailand so Japan's second largest auto company can double its annual production capacity in the Southeast Asian nation to 240,000 cars. Japanese pharmaceutical firms have also bought up American and Indian rivals. Overall, in the first 10 months of this year, foreign acquisitions by Japanese firms soared nearly fourfold to around $67 billion, according to Recof Data Corp. If the shopping binge continues, Japan could...