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...estranged wife, and hurls his stepdaughter down a staircase. When a worker at his fish-cake factory begs for back pay, Kim responds by applying a hot coal to the man's cheek. After the business takes off, Kim invests his gains in a loan-sharking operation, opening up vast new reserves of people to exploit and brutalize. To Kim, power is to be abused, affection to be crushed...
...course, even the most committed promoters of mobile video know that today's electronic devices often aren't worth watching. One challenge is storage capacity; video files take up vast tracts of memory space, so traditional storage methods like memory sticks and standard hard drives are too costly, fragile or clumsy. And workable future alternatives based on nanotechnology and holograms have so far failed to materialize. So Cornice Inc. of Colorado is trying to perfect a technology based on the standard hard drive, which has been around the computer business for nearly a half-century. Cornice has shrunk the drive...
...have no doubt that the vast majority of students would be willing to pay a little extra for the peace of mind of knowing that their own energy consumption would be cleaner...
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...discrepancies baffle Fornero because the median family income in the integrated city is $71,293 and the district spends a generous $9,234 on each pupil. Furthermore, the vast majority of students come from homes in which at least one parent is college educated. "How do I market the district to African-American parents with these numbers?" he says of the black students' performance. "We can't have one set of facts we put on billboards in front of the schools and another set we don't talk about...