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Many, in fact, fail to get ahead in any way. In Westminster, the "Little Saigon" in Southern California's Orange County, 140,000 Vietnamese refugees are crammed into 5 sq. mi. often under deeply impoverished circumstances. Without the resources and planning that other Asian families have used in resettling, many of them work at dead-end jobs or, as a last resort, subsist on government handouts, which profoundly shames them. Says Nghia Tran, 30, executive director of the Vietnamese Community of Orange County: "As refugees, this population represents a special set of needs, and sometimes they are not met. This...
...toughest job may be replacing the solar panels -- two 40-ft.-long "wings" that provide power to the telescope. During the full day needed for this task, Thornton and Akers will precisely follow hundreds of steps, using bolts, electrical connectors, Velcro and 84 sq. yds. of plastic. And somehow they must do it all while swathed in their thick space suits -- a condition astronauts jokingly compare with being mummified...
...right. For when Mitterrand opened the newly rebuilt Richelieu wing last week, he vastly expanded the world's most famous museum and, for the first time in the palace's 447-year history, allowed the Louvre to be dedicated entirely to its extraordinary art collections. With its 231,400 sq. ft. of floor space, the three-story Richelieu wing will double the Louvre's display areas, allowing its curators to pull more than 4,000 works out of the reserves and put a total of 12,000 on view in the new sections alone...
Toad's Place. Just around the corner from the York Sq. is Toad's Place, a late-night bar that also features up and coming musicians. For students over 21, Toad's offers a party scene more favorable than that found in the crowded suites of under grads. Yale alumni recall that Cindi Lauper, among others, got her start here. In the 70's she was so bad, they say, that she would sing the three or four songs in her repertoire, then apologize, then repeat. Since Cindy, a few big-time bands have played at Toad's. The Rolling...
...Wooster Sq., where locals say pizza was born, is home to about fifteen hearty Italian restaurants. President Clinton visited Wooster Sq. last month for dinner after receiving an honorary degree at Yale Law. New Haven's two most-famous brick-over pizza parlors, Sally's and Pepe's, are within a block of each other on Wooster Street. Don't miss the Italian pastry shops nearby...