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Mitsubishi's Coilplus subsidiary, a manufacturer of precision steel products, didn't just plop down its new $16 million plant in Will County, ^ Ill., three years ago by chance. The county, 35 miles south of Chicago, prevailed in an intense 15-month bidding contest against 20 other sites in Illinois and neighboring Iowa, Indiana and Wisconsin. Will County won by building a $300,000 road, finding $150,000 in state funds for a training program, extending a railroad spur to the plant's back door, negotiating with the owner of the 37-acre site to drop its price, and even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bruising Battle Abroad | 5/27/1991 | See Source »

Lizbeth Andujar traces a line of sheet music with a finger as her other hand lightly taps against the side of a set of white steel drums. "Try one line until you get it and then increase the speed," the diminutive eighth-grader advises Aki Shimizuishi. "Take your time, get the notes, know where they are, and then get the beat." Aki, 17, looks down at the short alto drums, which are cut from large oil containers. He strikes a few of the notes with thin, rubber-tipped metal mallets and winces when the tone doesn't sound quite right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wallingford, Connecticut Calypso Rocks A New England Village | 5/27/1991 | See Source »

Calypso-flavored steel drumming is not the average class offering at Choate, where students dress like L.L. Bean models and carry lacrosse sticks across carefully manicured lawns. Located in Wallingford, Conn., 12 miles north of New Haven, it is the button-down boarding school boasting such notable alumni as John F. Kennedy and Glenn Close -- a place of birch and magnolia trees and Colonial Revival brick buildings with white trim, intimate dormers and gilded towers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wallingford, Connecticut Calypso Rocks A New England Village | 5/27/1991 | See Source »

...Burger school, an oasis of learning located in a neighborhood of burned-out buildings, where sporadic gunfire is a regular event. "We have people in Mercedes and Jaguars from Connecticut and New Jersey out in front of the school buying drugs," says Tom Minicucci, the director of the senior steel band. "It is like the bazaars at Marrakesh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wallingford, Connecticut Calypso Rocks A New England Village | 5/27/1991 | See Source »

Burger, one of New York City's magnet schools for the performing and creative arts, attracts talented students from outside the boundaries of the impoverished school district. The school offers classes in drama, choral music, orchestra, dance and, of course, the steel drum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wallingford, Connecticut Calypso Rocks A New England Village | 5/27/1991 | See Source »

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