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...built a mini-business empire from a flower-and-tree nursery business. In tribute, local officials awarded him a certificate with the message: "It is glorious and civilized to be wealthy through hard work." Still, since 1981 at least half of all rural families have built new homes. Bao Hongyuan, 38, lives with his parents, his wife and ten-year-old son in a new two-story, six-room house in the model Hong Qiao farming community in the western suburbs of Shanghai. Says he: "We not only have a new house, but electrical appliances, a television set, a washing...
When Showfolk Business Manager Neal Levin needed investors to bankroll a Chinese dim sum diner named Bao Wow in Los Angeles, he naturally turned to clients, including Olympic Gold Medalist Bruce Jenner, Singer Melissa Manchester and Satirist "Weird Al" Yankovic. The first Bao Wow in Beverly Hills was a dog with the dinner trade and closed after a year; the second, in Encino, is a noon and nighttime hit, prompting dreams of a nationwide chain. The Hard Rock Cafe, which offers young Manhattanites an eclectic menu topped with a hefty dollop of rock-'n'-roll memorabilia that includes Elvis Presley...
...Robert Bao East Lansing, Mich...
...financier, based his pro-French Vietnamese government on his country's small upper class, exiled his ablest political associates and ignored French pleas to fight insurgent forces of the Communist Viet Minh. In June 1952 Huu was fired by Viet Nam's chief of state, the Emperor Bao...
...suffocating security, the Games remain a unique human experience. Sums up Zhenghua Bao, 14, a figure skater from mainland China, which is attending its first Olympics since 1936: "We have been away from the Olympics for so many years. This is a wonderful opportunity to come and meet all the other young people from around the world...