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...militancy, also the slowing economy, skyrocketing inflation, a nationwide electricity shortage and the integration of the troubled tribal areas that operate under colonial-era laws separating them from the rest of the country. But first the coalition partners need to figure out how to cooperate. "Nobody is minding the store," says Shaukat Qadir, a retired brigadier. "If they don't start paying attention, we will be in trouble...
Consumers: The Party's Over Oxford Street, London's busiest retail area, is still teeming with shoppers hunting for end-of-season sales bargains, but the store owners are anything but happy. Marks & Spencer's stock dropped 25% in a day on July 2 after the firm issued a profit warning. At privately owned rival John Lewis, sales in the summer-clearance week at the end of June fell more than 8% compared with the same week in 2007. Patrick Lewis, who heads the company's retail operations, said the market "has certainly got an edge tougher...
...think the anti-Wal-Mart is Costco, which pays much better and has much better health benefits and which is profitable and offers low prices. I have fond feelings for American Apparel, the non-sweatshop casual clothing store. Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's has become a national campaigner for doing something about this inequality of wealth and income and for more corporate accountability. So yes, there are plenty of good examples...
...hurdles in Thailand - those who have undergone sex-change operations, for example, are still listed as men on their national I.D. cards - they are also a normal and visible part of society. A Bangkok travel agency I use is staffed by kathoeys, and a cashier at my local grocery store is rapidly transitioning toward womanhood. One of the Immigration Department officers who last year helped me renew my work visa had both an Adam's apple and lavish mascara. Kathoeys star on TV soap operas and grace catwalks at fashion shows, while an all-kathoey pop group called the Venus...
After half an hour, he chooses a pork loin that he'll cook along with spaghetti in a sauce of fennel, eggplant, zucchini, onion and a small store-brand can of peeled whole tomatoes. "I'd rather have a nice Italian Cento brand, but it's going in a sauce, so I don't think it needs to be great," he says of the tomatoes. This pasta is something he'd make at home, where he often combines spaghetti with broccoli, garlic, olive oil and Parmesan cheese or, more often, with bacon, cabbage and cannellini beans...