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...Though they serve as a gateway to the U.S. tech economy, some corners of the West Coast ports still operate as if they're stuck in the early 1900s, costing an estimated $1 billion in inefficiencies each year. Many clerks carry clipboards, tracking transactions with grease pencil and paper. When they use computers, they usually insist on re-entering all data themselves, even though it could easily be transmitted electronically from other ports. Modern ports in Rotterdam, Hong Kong and Singapore move three times as many trucks through their terminals every hour as their West Coast counterparts...
...China and not eating, you know, Chinese food: Shanghai prides itself on offering up the best of whatever global nosh you're craving. After all, this is the city where the favorite soup is not wonton but borscht - brought by the city's East European immigrants in the early 1900s and now proudly made by countless Shanghai grandmas. After you finish your phad thai or tikka masala, head to Face's bar, which opens out to a sweeping lawn. Sit in the Ming-style chairs for a quiet drink on the veranda. House drinks include the Chinese Whisper (Cointreau, Midori...
...good reason. Though his parents emigrated from the area in the early 1900s, Pittsburgh-born Warhol never visited Slovakia, much less Medzilaborce, a remote town of 6,500. But that has not stopped the locals, few of whom had ever heard of Warhol or Pop art before 1989, from adopting him as one of their own. "If you want to know Andy Warhol the superstar, go to Pittsburgh," says Michal Bycko, the museum's curator. "But if you want to know him as a person and what he was like before he became famous, you need to come to Medzilaborce...
Despite the preeminence of the University of Chicago in economics and John Hopkins University in sociology in the early 1900s, major changes to perpetuate an environment of academic excellence were underway...
...first laws were enacted in response to Mexican migration during the early 1900s, despite opposition from the American Medical Association. White Americans did not even begin to smoke marijuana until a soon-to-be entrenched government bureaucracy began funding reefer madness propaganda...