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...crossroads to decide which way to head. When my money ran out, I found ways of making enough to keep me going. I became a fortune-teller, a hairdresser, a peddler of fake toothpaste and pink chiffon scarves. I helped make sofas in Guizhou province and fished for yellow carp on Qinghai Lake. In the cities, I would camp in flea-ridden hostels, in the countryside I would often just sleep on the ground...
...running from 50,000 units per 100 milliliters to millions and even billions of units. The maximum is supposed to be 200. The increased phosphorus downriver threatens the water quality for the whole area. John Young, editor of the Waco Tribune-Herald, says the water is not fit for carp. He also says there have been so many taste and odor "events"--the euphemism for bad days--that the town should fly a green flag whenever the water tastes like water...
...channel," and he does a lively riff on the marathon coverage that followed John F. Kennedy Jr.'s fatal plane crash in the summer of 1999. After a while, though, all this mockery of the excesses of TV news begins to seem a fish-in-the-barrel (or a carp-in-the-teacup) sort of enterprise...
...sits in a bamboo chair on a small patio next to a carp pond. This is his retreat, a small backyard behind his remodeled house where he can listen to the babbling waterfall and relax beneath giant spider lilies. He concedes that as a boy he never dreamed of living in this sort of luxury...
...digital age, Carp believes, Kodak will make most of its profits after, not before, a picture is taken, helping customers store and print their digital images in all sorts of new ways and charging a premium for the service. That means everything: adding borders or frames, turning color into black-and-white, eliminating red eye and fashioning posters, homemade greeting cards, glossy album pages, calendars, T shirts and maybe even wallpaper...