Word: bamboos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even more of an effort to create jobs for unemployed youths. In Nanjing, 600 otherwise unemployable young people have been given jobs as hairdressers and bathhouse attendants. Shanghai last month tried to provide make-work for several hundred jobless young by paying them 53? a day to scramble up bamboo scaffolding and help refurbish the city's many stately but decaying Victorian office buildings. There are even special catch-up courses for young people. At the Xiang Ming Middle School, near Shanghai's old French Concession, former Red Guards show up each night to resume their interrupted education...
...enameling discovered in tombs as recently as 1974, and menacing guardian figures found in the ruins of a Buddhist temple. There are scrolls and paintings, daggers and belt buckles, masks and fans. All the traditional motifs and idioms of East Asian art appear in Korean work-dragons, Buddhas and bamboo trees-but most have been somehow changed, made Korean with an indigenous fluency that renders them distinctive...
...staff and students at the St. Theresa Mission School in Nandere, a tiny village deep in the bamboo-and-papyrus forests 30 miles north of Kampala, were more fortunate. First a band of Amin's soldiers robbed Headmaster Kibunka Peregrine of his watch and money; then, the headmaster told TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief David Wood, one of the soldiers "jammed a hand grenade in my mouth and told me to take him to the deacon." Peregrine knocked on the bullet-scarred door of the deacon's office, but no one emerged. "When Amin's boys left...
Much as it first breached the Bamboo Curtain of Mao Tse-tung's China in 1971, Ping Pong served the cause of diplomacy last week and opened a crack in the very closed door of another Communist Asian country: North Korea. To the cheers of waving schoolchildren lining scrubbed and decorated streets, 900 table-tennis players from 70 countries-including the U.S., but not South Korea and Israel-arrived in Pyongyang for a 13-day world championship. TIME Tokyo Bureau Chief Edwin Reingold was among the few Western journalists in North Korea. His report from the rarely glimpsed capital...
...hear them "singing.") The foundation has also restored to Victorian primness the home of the Baldwin family, pioneer missionaries and landowners of whom the natives still say: "They came here to do good and did right well." Near by, Baldwin ghosts may note with horror, aging flower children -"bamboo tourists"-dicker for Maui Wowie. Thanks to the tourist boom, Lahaina today has three times as many permanent inhabitants (some 10,000) as it did in the 1840s, whaling's heyday...