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...workers in Anhui province rivet together prefabricated structures for factory assembly lines, which churn out goods for stores like Wal-Mart. A year ago business was so brisk that the company imported 70 workers from distant Shandong province to keep up with demand. But the mainland's torrid investment in everything from automobile plants to office high-rises to railroads has boosted the price the company pays for its main raw material, steel, by 24% in just four months. Yet the company hasn't been able to raise its own prices because most of its customers signed contracts last year...
...bats are still there—Harvard still leads the Ancient Eight in home runs and RBI. But pin the Crimson’s torrid Ivy winning streak—they swept the Columbia Lions (8-16, 5-5 Ivy) in Friday’s doubleheader 4-3 and 10-2, bringing the streak to five games—on something quite different...
Brown’s shooters began to cool off slightly, but the Bears didn’t abandon their torrid pace...
DIED. ANITA MUI, 40, sultry pop star whose torrid concerts earned her the tag the Asian Madonna; of complications from cervical cancer; in Hong Kong. She sold more than 10 million albums and was a charismatic actress in Hong Kong films, notably as a ghost lover in Rouge, as a Japanese spy in Kawashima Yoshiko and as Tung the Wonder Woman in The Heroic Trio...
...Florida, has 11 international airports. With its appeal to mambo-era nostalgia and its pristine scuba-diving sites, Cuba was voted the best destination in the Caribbean by readers of Travel & Leisure magazine this year. Castro's dictatorship isn't exactly the stuff of tourist brochures, but the torrid cold war history shared by Cuba and the U.S. may be part of the attraction...