Word: creeks
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...This is the Taiwanese heartland, where kids still play marbles with pits of dragon eye fruit the way Chen did when he was a boy. They still go swimming in the creek and roast water chestnuts on charcoal braziers. When Chen was growing up here during the 1950s, Taiwan was still struggling for survival; today's grandiose notion of cultural identity was a distant luxury. While the newly arrived leaders of the Kuomintang, freshly landed from the mainland, were building their capital in Taipei, for the native Taiwanese, descendants mostly of Fujian and Guangdong natives who settled during the 17th...
...year term in a maximum-security prison in the Alaskan mountains. Every night, before crashing in the tiny cell he shares with a fellow murderer, he mops the prison floors, a job that earns him $21 a month, just enough to buy soap, shampoo and stationery, which the Spring Creek Correctional Center does not supply for free. His face pasty white from lack of sun, Ramsey told TIME his biggest complaint is the total absence of privacy. The light is always on in his cell, and the toilet sits in the open at the end of his bunk...
...instant following among minority audiences, then largely spurned them with new programming that went after young white viewers. But while the two networks are fierce competitors, they also operate almost opposite universes. The WB built a lineup of dramas and comedy-dramas with young-female appeal ("Felicity," "Dawson's Creek," "7th Heaven"), while UPN settled into a niche heavy on action and testosterone ("WWF Smackdown!," "Shasta McNasty," the XFL). In short, UPN is The Boy Network and The WB is The Girl Network...
...also puts in question the future of The WB, whose teen-girl-TV specialty is starting to look, like, *so* 1990s. "Felicity," for instance, is still a reliable, well-drawn charmer, but it never became the phenomenon many were predicting at its hugely hyped 1998 launch. "Dawson's Creek" still pulls audiences, but its aging, self-absorbed characters are getting more whinily irritating by the minute, and it's quickly approaching the "Beverly Hills 90210" everyone's-already-slept-with-everyone-else limit, as Kevin Williamson prepares to send the cast off to whatever suddenly invented fictional college they...
...olds pretending to be four to five years younger than their true age are as “hip” as it gets—think Kate Hudson in “Almost Famous,” or anyone who has ever appeared on Dawson’s Creek. And the musical preferences of teenyboppers—Britney Spears, N’Sync, Hanson—are given billing as some of the top rock n’ roll songs of all time in Rolling Stone magazine...