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...food receive their aid. Meanwhile, he regularly invites local students into the store. "We're trying to teach the children how to eat properly," he says. Despite such tactics, Beyah regards himself as a pure businessman, not an activist. He's also an optimist - and hopes to open at least five stores in the coming years. "I will survive," he declares...
...steps toward normalizing relations between two governments that technically don't recognize the other's right to exist, but which have inevitably been drawn together economically. Taiwan is a global center of IT manufacturing, and in recent years, the island's companies have for competitive reasons been compelled to open factories on the mainland, taking advantage of a liberalization of Taipei's restrictions on such investments. More than a million people from Taiwan now live in China in industrial centers near Shanghai in the east and in Guangdong province in the south. Direct transport links greatly enhance efficiency and lower...
...fled home after a week on the job, leaving about $115,000 in debt. "What were [they] thinking, loaning ?80,000 to a 24-year-old with no stable job who'd been in the country just eight weeks?" asks Mohamed. "When things are good, no one wants to open their eyes." He recently bumped into his former employee in Edinburgh. "He said 'I don't know you and you don't know me,' " says Mohamed. "What happens in Dubai stays in Dubai...
...late '70s, my mother, frustrated at the lack of care and attention given to special-education children, who actually had fewer school hours and more days off than "normal" children did, opened her own day-care center for the developmentally disabled. By this time, Noah was 14 and as tall as my mother. My father, already in his 50s, was soon diagnosed with a heart problem; he has since had open-heart surgery. My mother, who had been Noah's most assiduous and faithful teacher, spending hours a day at a table in his room, constantly trying...
Crab Heaven. If you've never cracked open a Chesapeake Bay blue crab, pick up a hammer. The Five Gables Inn and Spa in St. Michaels, Md., is offering a Spa and Sail package that includes a two-hour sail, a one-hour massage for two and a certificate for a dozen blue crabs and a pitcher of beer at a local restaurant. If you can go midweek (Sunday through Thursday), the rate is $570 for two nights, including continental breakfast; on weekends, the rate goes up to $770 for two nights. 209 North Talbot Street, St. Michaels...