Word: boomtown
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...there is little evidence of belt-tightening in Washington. While the rest of the country switches into austerity mode, there's almost a boomtown feel in the capital, where a federal spending spree is rapidly driving the federal deficit to record heights. For the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, the gap between revenue collected by the government vs. what it spent was already lofty at $455 billion - an amount equal to nearly 7% of GDP, making it the largest deficit since the end of World...
...feet to the mobile phones we carry. But to most of the world, China's legions of migrant factory workers are faceless, the interchangeable gears whose revolutions drive the global economy. Chang, a journalist at the Wall Street Journal, spent two years reporting in the gritty southern boomtown of Dongguuan trying to put human faces on these workers, and the ones she finds are extraordinary: overwhelmingly female, jarringly young and driven as much by the desire to see the world beyond their village as by financial necessity. They are, more than anything else, the face of modern China: a country...
...Highlight Reel1. On Dongguan, the fast-changing boomtown where Chang does the majority of her reporting: "No one is sure how many people live here. According to the city government, Dongguan has 1.7 million local residents and almost seven million migrants, but few people believe these official figures...Dongguan is invisible to the outside world. Most of my friends in Beijing had passed through the city but all they remembered - with a shudder - were the endless factories and the prostitutes. I had stumbled on this secret world, one that I shared with six million, or eight million, or maybe...
...Angeles, Live Aid's Bob Geldof, still blissfully unaware that he was about to be named a Knight of the British Empire, made a surprise appearance with Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers. (Don't call him Sir Bob, please. Because he is not British, he'll just be Mr. Geldof, Boomtown Rat, K.B.E.) But at almost every concert the fans belonged to U2, as Bono and The Edge ripped out New Year's Day and Sunday, Bloody Sunday. The girls threw lingerie, the guys waved Irish flags, and everybody screamed wildly when Bono lifted girls onstage, hugged them and left them...
...attraction. Gliding by at 20 knots, the view is astonishing: the vast Hubbard and Columbia glaciers tumbling into the ocean, the green islands of the Inside Passage, the jagged, snowblown Chugach mountain range. Landfalls are on a different scale. Skagway is a small, ramshackle old gold-rush boomtown made cheerful and shiny for tourists. Juneau, a brisk, up- all-night little city of 30,000, is the place to visit the Red Dog Saloon at twilight, which falls somewhere around midnight, and see the St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church, a tiny jewel box built in 1894. It is also...