Plastic buckets, broken printers shine light on Hanoi's poor

Vietnamese families living in slums along the Red River in Hanoi are using red plastic buckets and old printers to help light homes, cook meals and slash electricity costs by as much as a third. The recycled goods form the blades and motors of electrical generators that power old motorcycle batteries to illuminate lamps with a brightness equivalent to a 45-Watt light bulb. "It is enough to light the home of my family and other families around here," said Bui Van Ha, who earns about $4.50 a day o