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...quest for good food in China, the most useful quality may be a spirit of adventure. Nowhere is an unprejudiced palate better rewarded. Many foods considered delicacies by the Chinese cause Westerners to shudder. Among such exotica are snake, sea slug, turtle, bird's nests formed of swallows' saliva, dried jellyfish and webs of duck feet. The faint-palated would bypass such choices and thereby miss some of the world's most carefully orchestrated seasonings as well as much of the drama of Chinese food. Snake cut in thin slivers and cooked in a soup suggests the most delicate chicken...
Virtually every aspect of China's modernization drive will be debated in the weeks and months ahead, and its opponents may even find some common ground. In a telling image, Politburo Member Chen Yun, a powerful conservative, has likened the Chinese economy to a bird and described government control as the cage. While the cage may be enlarged to let the bird fly more freely, Chen argues, it must never be thrown away. On that point, at least, Deng Xiaoping and his critics seem to agree completely...
DAVE, A suitemate, escapes this deprivation. Hulking and sweaty after soccer, he hunches over a row of glass vials, peering carefully at the bird bones clinking inside. Making a choice he pours a crisscross pile of bones into my hand. They're a creamy pebble grey, polished and crisp. Dave explains the significance of each tiny detail as I tick a fingernail across notches and etched grooves. My fingers and eyes draw me into a miniature world of texture--a jagged cave about a millimeter across signifies a breast bone; a ball-bearing sized nub, an ankle...
Other finalists for the Crimson Saturday were Jeff Peltier and Co-Captains Dan Simkowitz and Lars Reierson, who finished third, fourth and ninth respectively in the 200 backstroke. Junior Bill Bird claimed fifth in the 200 butterfly and George Imredy was 10th...
...Butterfly--1. Thomas Albanese, Army, 1:48.81, 2. Chris Cummings, LaSalle, 1:49.08; 3. John Kilroy, Army, 1:49.09; 5. Bill Bird, Harvard, 1:49.77;11. George Imredy, Harvard...