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...Aerosmith and mired in Moby. Li (not his real name) supplies cut-rate music CDs to storefront retailers in his home city of Guangzhou in southern China and is on one of his periodic buying trips to Shantou, a port city in Guangdong province. Here, inside a cluster of brick warehouses at the end of a dirt lane, hundreds of thousands of discs by foreign artists, both major and minor, are piled in cardboard boxes and wicker baskets stacked several meters high. Li wades through the CD sea like a beachcomber, looking for favored titles. He buys the discs...
...folks as hardy as these can be pushed only so far. When the Youbao No. 2 Well Company started mining coal beneath their homes and the town school in 1993, they quietly endured the racket of underground dynamite blasts and watched the cracks spread in the walls of their brick houses. By the beginning of last year, however, part of the school had to be demolished because its foundation had become too unstable, and the walls of many houses had split. Finally, the locals determined to speak out, never figuring it would cost some of them their jobs and earn...
Wayne State, a fledging women’s hockey program, learned a lot of lessons from playing the No. 1 Crimson Saturday night. Chief among them was that checking junior captain Angela Ruggiero is about as rewarding as banging one’s head against a brick wall...
...down-at-heel, white-brick building in Clapham, South London, the season's most ambitious theatrical project is nearing completion in absolute secrecy. No outsider is allowed into the rehearsal rooms of the Royal Shakespeare Company as the famous theater troupe goes through the final test runs of Midnight's Children, adapted by Salman Rushdie from his beloved, groundbreaking 1981 novel. Those involved will only be interviewed in a room high in the building, away from where the show is taking shape. What's happening down there? "We're experimenting, playing games, finding a theatrical language for the play," says...
...That perspective also fuels memorable comic moments, as in one of the funniest scenes in 2000's Down Under. Bryson is chased by wild dogs in the Australian outback but ends up suffering his worst injury at his own hands, when he conks himself on the head with a brick. Bryson has proved more adept at wielding humor as a weapon, and uses it to express his disappointment with the world. "People accuse me of being a curmudgeon, but everybody should be one! Why don't more people get annoyed at, say, ugly supermarkets? It bothers me that they...