--Excerpt from a NYT article ( Is change really great ? I mean, is the globalization, we parade Apple- they are making a spaceship enterprise office near me here, in Cupertino) Do we really want other countries to emualte this type of civilization ?

Ms. Brown said she used to feel as if she were living in a surreal movie. From her window, she could see butchers “in white coats covered in blood, warming their hands over fires in oil cans as pig carcasses are flying by.”

Now she has a view of the Apple store, where lines wind around the block whenever a new gadget is released. “I’m used to seeing some things outside,” she said, “but not white people in sleeping bags.”