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Once the deal was done, the factory rose miraculously from a site in the city's Pudong development district--140 acres of marshy paddy field with no roads, electricity or drainage. The first piles were sunk in January 1997, and to everyone's amazement, not least the GM engineers, the first car rolled off the line on Dec. 17, 1998. "The government helped us enormously with infrastructure," says Chen Hong, president of SGM. In 1998 SGM was designated Shanghai's No. 1 economic project--a privileged, pull-out-all-the-stops status that went to the city's new airport...
Trickle-down economics has not yet sunk to the places that the people in George Saunders' fiction must, for want of a better fortune, call home. The hilariously hapless heroes of the six stories in Pastoralia (Riverhead Books; 188 pages; $22.95) live as adults with their crotchety mothers or religiously obsessed sisters or a menagerie of squabbling relatives. The beleaguered breadwinner in Sea Oak works as a male stripper at Joysticks, a club with an aviation motif, and notes of his lodgings, "At Sea Oak there's no sea and no oak, just a hundred subsidized apartments and a rear...
...have been stove by a whale." Moby Dick? No, this leviathan was part of the real-life drama that inspired the Melville story. Halfway around the world from its home port of Nantucket, Mass., while chasing whales in the South Seas, the 238-ton whaler Essex was rammed and sunk by an angry sperm whale. The episode, in November 1820, was the Titanic disaster of its day, much discussed because of what ensued...
...have more than a half century of sunk costs invested into Boston's hard luck, yet venerable, baseball team and its treasured home. A couple of years ago I took my 17 year old nephew to Boston with the premise that if I should suffer for half a century, he might as well catch the Red Sox-Fenway Park "virus" and suffer...
...ancient Kisone had a language which is still in the recovery process, as there were many dialects. However, though maps of the original land mass have been recovered, a land mass matching it has not been found in the modern world. It is theorized that it could have sunk like the lost city of Atlantis, or there could have been extraterrestrial involvement in its disappearance. The modern lack of unclaimed land led Fowler to take over a few patches of Mankato, specifically a teacher's office at Mankato West High School. A great deal of air space was also declared...