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...Chinese simply desired mementos of their encounters with a Westerner, I’d brush it off as curiosity about the unknown and delight in having met it. As it is, the practice only adds to the unsettling feeling that I represent everything against which China has spent much of its modern history waging both military and ideological wars. And this country is welcoming me, perhaps at the expense of its own people...
...stroll from the hotel through gorgeous, weather-worn Old Havana, where many of the palaces and plazas date from the 16th and 17th centuries. Highlights include the Teatro Nacional and Plaza de la Catedral, with its nearby open-air market for Che berets and other tourist kitsch. For a brush with real Cubans and a sense of the island's emerging private economy, stroll over to Cuatro Caminos, a farmers' market and photographers' paradise full of colorful fruits, flowers and the ever whimsical fly-covered goat heads...
...BRUSH WITH THE LAW A young woman from Greensburg, Pa., brushed her teeth for two weeks with Crest Baking Soda toothpaste. She claims it misaligned and scarred her teeth, and she's suing both Procter & Gamble, the manufacturer, and Wal-Mart, the store that sold...
...this September, Nirvana's alternative rock opus Nevermind hit the racks and its first song, "Smells Like Teen Spirit," went into heavy rotation on MTV. When it knocked Michael Jackson off the number one spot on the Billboard charts and went platinum many times over, it appeared to brush aside single-handedly the peppy Reagan-era pop that had lingered for years after the junk bond party was over, the way Boris Yeltsin had appeared to brush aside the antiquated Communist Party only months earlier. It seemed part and parcel with the end of the cold war, and the illness...
...Jocko Henderson. Douglas Wendell Henderson, from Baltimore, brought a soothing hipster air to his shows on the two "Negro" (but white-owned) radio stations in town, WHAT and WDAS. Imagine a voice with Billy Eckstine's swing and intimacy, to the beat of light brush strokes, as Jocko croons his standard intro: "Hey, daddy-o!/ Hey, mommy-o!/ This is your Ace from Outer Space,/ Jock-o!/ Spinnin' the records on the record machine,/ Correct time now: /five fifteen...