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With more than a million residents of Polish descent, the Chicago area is the unofficial capital of Polonia. Many of the janitors and cleaning women who vacuum and scrub the city's high-rises and the clerks who sell kielbasa and clothing in the shops along Milwaukee Avenue speak little or no English. News about the old country is broadcast in Polish on radio and television and headlined by the daily Zgoda (circ. 15,000) and at least a dozen thriving Polish-language weeklies. The reaction of leading commentators in recent months has sometimes bordered on euphoria. "Events in Poland...
American manufacturers eventually learned what the Japanese already knew: that new markets can be created by making things smaller and lighter. (The popular phrase in Japan is kei-haku-tan-sho -- light, thin, short and small.) Ten years ago, Black & Decker scored big when it shrank the household vacuum cleaner from a bulky 11.2 kg (30 lbs.) to a 0.75-kg (2-lb.) device dubbed the Dustbuster. Tandy and Apple Computers put the power of a room-size computer into something resembling a television-typewriter and created an industry worth $75 billion a year...
...federal agents cracked down on shipments through South Florida, traffickers started routing shipments through the porous Mexican border. At the same time, the smuggling industry has plenty of competition. When Colombia's campaign against the Medellin cartel hampered that group's operations, the rival Cali-based group filled the vacuum...
Dehmelt has performed other small miracles as well. By creating an electromagnetic "cradle," he has kept a lone electron suspended in a vacuum for months at a time. He has also succeeded in observing the fabled quantum jump of a single trapped atom as it absorbed energy and then emitted it in the form of light...
...however, "It's no longer a vote cast in a vacuum. It's a vote with real consequences," he said...