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...Nuke until cheese breaks a sweat...
...claim to fame: I was pressed up against Bill Clinton for fifteen minutes--sweating. Some guy was asking him what car he drove, and I was pressed up against Bill because of this big mob. Front to front. Belly to belly. Maybe not fifteen minutes, it seemed like forever. I got to shake his hand, felt the sweat, yes. And I have the autograph to prove...
...lines delineate America's outermost border; they are where cultural diversity begins. If America is a braided rope, its strands lead back to a hundred countries, each strand a line. Sometimes the line to reach America is metaphorical; more often it is as tangible as a battered suitcase, fear sweat and molded plastic furniture...
...with a black stamp, which means, 'Forget about America.' " Khamov, 25, an electrician who wants to settle in Orvado, Colorado, ignores him. Not that the self-appointed expert is wrong: ever since communist control ended, the U.S. embassy has been cherry-picking, allowing only a small fraction of these sweat-stained, hope-driven applicants through. But Khamov and his extended family (13 in all), who have joined the visa line straight from their 55-hour train ride from Siberia, may actually have a shot. They will be applying on a time-honored ground: freedom from religious intolerance...
...Friday night in the heart of old Shanghai, the crowd at J.J.'s is working up a postsocialist sweat. Men in suits and ties gyrate with fashionably dressed young women; at small tables newly affluent entrepreneurs sip drinks between calls on cellular phones. The young people at J.J.'s revel in something unprecedented for China: personal and professional liberation. Those with the will and skill to take advantage of economic reform are freer than ever to seek their fortune, their mate and their own identity...