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...everyone who moves here will still own a car, because this is a suburb, right? When we lived in Shanghai, my wife walked out of our apartment to a street market a few blocks away to buy vegetables every day. Here, you drive to the store. In China, the car, almost as much as the new apartment or house, is a badge of honor among the newly minted middle class. If the neighbors I've met are any indication, many people will still drive into town rather than commute on a crowded train. This, despite the fact that it costs...
...Intel, helping design the chipmaker's new factory in Dalian. Another young father, Chen Jun, 36, is a successful clothing wholesaler. These are not rich Chinese, but people who consider themselves solidly middle class. Chen says proudly that he's "the first in my family to own a car as well as a real house." Their homes are about the same size as ours, and they probably paid roughly the same price as we did ($165,000). Most have young children (this being China, usually just one) and have also brought parents or parents-in-law with them, also common...
...migrants, of course, hope to move on. Before my wife and I bought a car here, we used to call a guy named Shi Guozheng, 27, from Anhui, who was a taxi driver of sorts. Shi had a battered old van, and made a living transporting migrant workers back and forth to their home towns. He was married, and often his wife, Lin, was in the car on our journeys into town. Over time my wife and she became friendly. One day last summer, they had tea together and Lin told Joyce she was pregnant, and that...
...think trouble - and change - comes the day Shi Guozheng doesn't have another place to move to, another job to go to. It's not the people living the Great Chinese Dream - with the new house and the car and the dog and maybe a second child on the way - that the government needs to worry about. It's the people who build that dream for others, and then move on, hoping to do it again somewhere else. They, too, are vested in the country's economic miracle. But should that miracle somehow turn sour, look...
Hours after announcing his death in a car bomb blast in a Damascus suburb, the Shi'ite Hizballah organization's television channel, Al Manar, broadcast a more recent picture of Mughniyah. It showed a plump, middle-aged man wearing combat fatigues and a forage cap and sporting a thick beard streaked with grey. His wire-framed spectacles gave him a benign, almost professorial, look, belying the fact that Mughniyah stood accused of killing more Americans than any other militant before the attacks of September...