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...China-Viet Nam War wilted like a frostbitten blossom last week. China's 100,000 or so infantry and armored troops arrested their languid advance 15 to 20 miles inside the Viet Nam border, wheeled, and began a gradual, piecemeal withdrawal. Vietnamese artillery and front-line units of the 70,000-man-strong border defense force put on a show of hot pursuit but coolly refrained from any real, obstructive attack. Judging from the ferocity of each side's victory claims, it seemed safe to conclude that neither side had won-or lost...
...accomplish the journey, Teng and his backers have embarked on what sometimes looks suspiciously like a capitalist road. The new doctrinal slogan might be formulated thus: "Let one hundred business deals blossom, let one hundred foreign investors contend." Although very few Chinese have acquired much individual freedom as part of the new enterprise, they are discarding, without ceremony, much of their old ideological baggage. Gone is the once sacred Maoist principle of national self-reliance and independence from outside resources. Chinese managers have heretically embraced such impure capitalist devices as meritocratic promotions and other special treatment for their best...
...time a girl is good enough to strut her stuff for five minutes at the line tryouts, her parents have quite a bit invested. Private twirling lessons can run as high as $25 an hour. A week at one of the dozen or more twirling camps that blossom in the heat of Texas summer is about $90. Stretchy costumes cost as much as $60. The batons themselves, chrome-plated steel from 16 in. to 30 in. long, are about $12.50. Twirler parents spend about $600 a year, and some begin pushing their daughters into contests before they are old enough...
...that the Aswan Dam has made new dreams possible. In the past, Osman claims, Egypt was in constant danger of running out of water in any given year and thus could not develop new areas. Now, the Egyptians believe, they have the water power to make the northwestern Sinai blossom like the Nile Valley...
...Here are all these people, husbands and lovers who have been used to seeing just a nice little mommy or nice little underachiever, and they're comfortable with that." Rodell said. "And all of a sudden you start to blossom in one way or another. That really threatened my husband." As the experience at Harvard became a central part of the women's lives, some husbands began retaliating. Marguerite's husband accused her of not being a good wife, and she remembers he "couldn't understand why I didn't want to do housework." As the rate of personal growth...