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...Southeastern Massachusetts University (SMU), originally scheduled to face the Crimson on Saturday, walked away from the strip after a dispute about the number of directors (referees to the uninitiated). Though challenging only the scheduled men's sabre match, SMU withdrew its entire squad--men and women--from the meet...
...Catastrophe no longer dogs Rabbit's heels. He is afflicted instead with dented fenders, with enough money to know that it will not buy him what he wants, whatever that may be. He is in the process of forgetting his dream, just as his city of Brewer in southeastern Pennsylvania has paved over its past with highways that, thanks to oil prices, may lead nowhere. He peddles Japanese cars to Americans; something has gone wrong in his native land. He thinks: "The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing...
...dramatic changes taking place in almost all aspects of Mexican life can be explained by a single, three-letter word: oil. The discovery of vast petroleum reserves in the country's southeastern marshlands has captured the attention of industrialized nations seeking to insulate themselves from the effects of another Middle Eastern boycott. Today, Mexico is the world's fourth largest oil producer, with reserves exceeded only by Saudi Arabia. And with every announcement of an increase in reserves, the expectations of Mexico's 70 million people rise to new heights...
With careful, patient tuning, it reaches out beyond Rte. 128, beyond Albany, beyond Niagara Falls, beyond Cleveland, beyond Toledo, all the way to the self-proclaimed "Paris of the Southeastern corner of lower Michigan," to the clear channel voice of the Great Lakes, radio 760, WJR, Detroit...
Shenzhen is the heart of a thriving new 127-sq.-mi. Special Economic Zone where Western capitalists can do business. In addition to Shenzhen, there are two other free-enterprise zones on the southeastern coast, Shantou and Huli. Of all the economic reforms started by China in the post-Mao period, none flirts more intimately with Western-style capitalism than the SEZs...