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...first glance, Fenghuang is still a backward village. Peasants pull two- wheeled harnessed carts along the roads, and sewage remains the primary fertilizer. Beneath that superficial impression, however, the lives of the 865 people of Fenghuang and of their neighbors in Sichuan province have been revolutionized. Where just six years ago most of the villagers were rice growers, today nearly 80% of Fenghuang's work force is no longer engaged in farming. Some peasants mix fodder, some produce soft drinks, some refine edible oil. Many of them work in a small distillery, brewing a potent rice liquor called feifeng daqu...
...World is a classic instance of information retrieval presented without bias or thesis. Unlike Paul Fussell, whose The Great War and Modern Memory (1975) brilliantly traced the outlines of World War I on contemporary art and life, Weintraub is content to play the role of time machine, flashing backward to gather the testimonies of eyewitnesses. They are unfailingly provocative...
...following inconsistency in the U.S. reasoning? To substantiate increased military spending, all they do in the U.S. is talk about the fantastic achievements of the U.S.S.R. in the field of technology. When, on the other hand, they need an excuse for prohibitive measures, they portray us as a backward country of yokels, with which to trade and to cooperate would mean undermining one's own "national security." So where is the truth? What is one to believe...
...over the right wing when the jet's rear was rattled by an explosion, perhaps caused by the ignition of the oxygen tanks that supply the plane's emergency masks. Seconds later, another blast, closer to the front, rocked the aircraft. The impact swept Wilson off his feet and backward into Beech, saving Wilson from being blown out of the plane. Like 79 of the flight's 83 survivors, he had to receive medical treatment. (Four of the flight crew members, including the pilot, escaped unharmed.) At week's end twelve remained hospitalized, only one of them in critical condition...
...hate that there is so little culture here. This is such a young country that it seems nouveau riche. But what is also so great about the U.S. is that because it is so young, it does not have any of the skepticism of Europe. Here you cannot fall backward. You can only go forward...