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...steel towns had in the past, Wal-Mart has a multiplier effect, creating work for outside service providers. The Tobees want a wedge of that pie. Cary, 39, and Cheryl, 36, moved their video-production business in July to Fayetteville from Fort Smith, Ark., and have already bid on business with Wal-Mart. "I am hoping for the overflow," says Cary. "You never know when they will need help with a project...
DIED. C.Z. GUEST, 83, avatar of high society and syndicated gardening columnist; in Old Westbury, N.Y. After a rebellious youthful turn as a show girl (and posing nude for Diego Rivera), she married the heir to a steel fortune in 1947 on Ernest Hemingway's Havana plantation and went on to become a mainstay of society columns and best-dressed lists for years...
...DIED. DON GIBSON, 75, second-grade dropout who went on to write classic country ballads about loneliness and heartache; in Nashville, Tennessee. Gibson was a pioneer of the Nashville Sound, a spare style without fiddles or pedal steel guitars, and wrote two of his most famous songs-Oh Lonesome Me and I Can't Stop Loving You, a Ray Charles hit in 1962-on the day his television and vacuum cleaner were repossessed. "When I wrote those songs, I couldn't have been any closer to the bottom," he said...
...Trading Tariffs China threatened to raise duties on American imports if the U.S. fails to lift its illegal tariffs on steel. This followed Washington's move to cap imports of Chinese textiles to protect American manufacturers...
...Tuesday in Sao Paulo, Brazil police began burning 20 tons of marijuana and cocaine in a steel furnace. Police, who are calling this the “biggest ever incineration of drugs” have seized a record 25 tons of marijuana in Sao Paulo state this year, five times more than in 2002, say that “this was the year for marijuana...