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...together $3,000; bought wheels, arms, foam padding and plywood chair bodies from local components manufacturers; and hired 20 friends to assemble the parts into finished products. Today his Heaven Office Furniture makes 1,000 kinds of office chairs, from executive models in black leather and chrome to squat cloth-clad cubicle standards. Zhu won his first export contract in 2004. He also attended the Cologne Furniture Fair in Germany and sent 80% of his $3 million output to 20 countries. Through a screen of plastic bamboo along his office window, he points out the new factory he's building...
...image we all remember from the London terror bombings last July 7 is a grainy snapshot. The picture, captured on a mobile phone camera, shows people escaping from a subway train. In the foreground, a man is holding a cloth over his nose and mouth so he can breathe more easily in the smoky subway.The photograph, one of the best examples to date of a phenomenon many call citizen journalism, reflects the democratization of information. The collision of media and technology has given us powerful, inexpensive tools to create digital content, ranging from blogs to podcasts to videos and more...
...that night, in a pretty loud voice, I asked the older nurse, "Now give me the magic towel". She had no clue either, but she knew I needed an aperture drape, which is a sterile cloth sheet with a hole big enough to work through in its center. As she was unfolding it, I loudly and slowly explained to her that 'this is the magic towel that makes boys with cuts fall asleep and not feel anything at all'. I think she got it, though the other two certainly didn't. And why should they have? Even I didn...
...then once the cloth touched his face, he turned off like a light. In fact, he turned off so fast and so completely that I got a little scared. But I could feel him breathing and his color was good, so I kept working. The younger nurse, however, started to pick up the drape-she was really scared. I tried to stop her without talking, without breaking the spell. In a mask all you can do is a kind of growl with your eyes...
...athletes gathered to discuss their cultures and values. Imagine if the Games became a venue for diplomats to meet, as well as for athletes to compete. Imagine if the Olympics linked the world together in the truest sense, instead of merely symbolically, with colored rings on ephemeral pieces of cloth and parchment...