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...them, a Victorian street built on the cheap for textile mill workers and on the slide, pretty much, ever since. On this mercilessly sunny day, a group of young British-Asian men are gathered outside the King Kebab, a takeaway joint on the end of a strip of budget shops that appear to be closed much of the time. Ali, Pav, Shy, Raja, Safi, Asif and Hasif are talking about their friend Kaki, another local boy, born nine miles from their Beeston neighborhood. "He was the best lad," says one, "everybody liked him." "He was gentle...
...looking for. Thousands of Vietnamese immigrants had settled on the outskirts of the Big Easy, choosing a steamy, tropical climate much like the one they had left behind. They lived in bedroom communities and saw each other every Sunday at Mass. A walk away from the porch was a strip mall promising tattoos, manicures, and groceries, and the clerks greeted customers in their language. It’s easy to get by without English, so that’s what many...
...chicken wings grew cold. I jangled my keys. It was too late, I told the men. I stepped off the porch and found my Jetta, safe in the strip mall’s parking lot, and sped at 60 miles per hour back to my high-ceilinged room off Fontainebleau Drive. It was quiet...
...attacks in the Tokyo subway and the 2004 train bombings in Madrid, some U.S. cities have quietly made smart improvements to their transit systems. Hundreds of police are now equipped with handheld radiation detectors. They do flag the occasional chemotherapy patient, leading to at least a couple of unfortunate strip searches in New York City, but that means the devices are working...
...fact that, according to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) documents seen by TIME, CNOOC, not Chevron, was actually Unocal's first choice as a merger partner. Some beltway politicians would paint CNOOC, which is 70% state-owned, as an arm of a Communist government out to strip the U.S. of vital energy supplies. TIME's reporting on the genesis of CNOOC's Unocal bid?dubbed "Operation Treasure Ship" by the Chinese company's investment bankers?reveals a far more complicated reality. CNOOC is a flagship Chinese firm determined to emerge as a major player in the global oil business...