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...Although none blame the scarcity on Lionel's recent bankruptcy, two shopkeepers tell me that workers in China, where the sets are made, are getting back at the U.S. for screwing up trade relations. Another blames a boat jam in San Francisco harbor. A man explains that a truck carrying trains to his Arkansas store was in a horrific, mysterious accident...
...Back in Papunya, the Pintupi men were famous for their old red truck, which kept breaking down in the desert - "it was to these sometimes desperate, instinctively nomadic people a manifestation of the traveling principle," writes Bardon, who died in May 2003, in a recently published history of the movement (see box, next page). These days their vehicle for survival is the dialysis machine. Because of poverty and poor diet, the Pintupi have one of the highest rates of kidney failure in the country. "Our rates of dialysis are 40 times the national average," says Dr. Paul Rivalland, who started...
...just as the bush mechanics got their red truck home, so too have the Pintupi managed to steer their own solution to kidney disease. Why dislocate family and culture by uprooting to Alice Springs, the late pastor and Pintupi elder Smithy Zimran asked his friend Peter Toyne, when a dialysis machine could be brought to Kintore? "It's a really simple thing to say," said Toyne at the opening. "It's been a very big battle to make it come true." While a dialysis machine can cost as little as $A40,000 - roughly the price of an off-road vehicle...
...overhaul of the Social Security system--in theory welcoming millions of the working class into the investing class--might aid G.O.P. mastermind Karl Rove's plan to fashion a permanent Republican majority. "What does it mean when every truck driver and waitress becomes a stockholder?" asks Michael Tanner, an economist at the Cato Institute and one of the architects of the private-account movement. "You can create inheritable wealth for low-income people and minorities. If you turn those truck drivers and waitresses into stockholders, they vote and behave very differently...
...prior to Ridge's lightning visit, U.S. and Mexican intelligence conferred about reports from several al-Qaeda detainees indicating the potential use of Mexico as a staging area "to acquire end- stage chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear material." U.S. officials have begun to keep a closer eye on heavy-truck traffic across the border. The Mexicans will also focus on flight schools and aviation facilities on their side of the frontier. And another episode has some senior U.S. officials worried: the theft of a crop-duster aircraft south of San Diego, apparently by three men from southern Mexico who assaulted...