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...much of China's explosive economy, phony $100 bills are as ubiquitous as construction cranes on the streets of Shanghai. Even in boomtowns, checks and credit cards are in limited use, and cash careens through the system at an alarming rate. Tracking down the counterfeiters is not easy, says Dai Weiwen, head of the exchange section of the Bank of China, because "our methods of detecting fakes are primitive." In recent months, however, banks have begun to install equipment such as money scanners to ferret out forgeries. The Industrial and Commerical Bank of China even fines employees who fail...
...everyone sees race as an issue in theirromance. Rita Dai' 94 says she is currentlyinvolved in an interracial relationship but "itdoesn't feel like...
...Dai, who is Asian-American says that she doesnot view the relationship as interracial becauseboth she and her white boyfriend, Eugene "Gino"Mirabelli '94 are United States citizens...
...Dai says she thinks all relationships have todeal with differences in backgrounds, not justinterracial relationships...
...shuffles, flicks and flips, he expounds fondly on the achievements of George Devol, a 19th century sharper and headbutter, and warmly evokes the memory of his two contemporary masters Dai Vernon and Charlie Miller, both now deceased, who shared their secrets with their gifted acolyte. Photos of Vernon and Miller can be seen on the bookcase of the fin-de-siecle gaming room that serves as the show's sole set, and a carte de visite featuring a picture of the 19th century illusionist Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser actually shows up in a prop for one of the show's loveliest...