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...ancient stuff. Do Quang Tranh speaks of how magnificent imported Chinese products are, describing in wonderment the "beauty of Chinese-made bricks." If he had his wish, this farmer would trade his fields for a job in a Chinese-invested factory - even though his village's elderly commune chief warns against "that frightening country up north." The ebb and flow of the Mekong has both blessed and cursed the people of the Delta. For Tranh and other Vietnamese, they can only hope to profit from what the river now brings to Vietnam's shores: the energy of China's economic...
...that Evan might be sleeping with - all right, sharing a dorm room with - their nerdiest classmate, Fogell (Christopher Mintz-Plasse), who also was accepted at Dartmouth. And Seth needs to have sex with a cool girl named Jules (note: guy's name) that night, that very night, not to commune with her, or even to get orgasmic pleasure for the first time from another person, but so he can practice sexual techniques with someone he knows and be a stud at the state college he's destined for. But what the 18-year-old virgin really needs, and ends...
...care center set on the shore of the commune's wooded lake, minder Richard Lonsdale has just put on a movie for children after finishing school classes. "I've been here for five years and it's changed a hell of a lot," he says. "There's been a general hardening of attitudes [from the police] - they think we're the enemy, but we don't teach our kids that...
...Still, the old hippie idealism still shapes many of the rules that govern the commune: Selling property is not allowed, and instead of cars - also banned - residents use bicycles to ferry everything from groceries to children...
...summer evening on a recent Tuesday, the conversation among the gardeners, painters and barbecue chefs can quickly turn tense. "The government is taking the temperature of how it's going to be when they clear the whole place out", says Marco Malcopes, the 25-year old manager of the commune's Info Cafe. "If that's their intention we showed them what will happen - we have to defend the places we live...