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...relatively recent phenomenon. In China's more vehemently socialist days, tennis was frowned upon, viewed as a marker of capitalist excess. (Any sport in which a major tournament has English nobility sampling strawberries and cream on the sidelines hardly bespoke of communist equality.) But China has changed, and a decent backhand is now considered de rigueur among many progeny of the Chinese elite. There's also the matter of international glory: Like dozens of other sports, tennis was targeted by the country's sports czars as a possible manufacturer of gold medals and world titles. In the 1990s, China poured...
...sending out résumés seven months ago, she didn't expect the job market would be quite so inhospitable. "I've had eight interviews so far," says Huang, an international-trade graduate of Anhui University of Finance & Economics, "but I still don't have a decent offer. And I just had an export-import company in Shanghai cancel an interview. They told me, 'We're not hiring anymore, our business is down and we think it's going to get worse...
...graduate," says the human-resources executive. Two years ago, the central government implicitly acknowledged this problem when it announced a plan to increase the number and quality of vocational schools throughout the country, hoping to siphon off some of the kids going to universities while still providing them with decent job opportunities. Employers say it's too early to say whether the program has been effective. He Lingyan, who runs a fast-growing industrial pipe - manufacturing company in Zhejiang province, says that when he needs engineers, "I look for people who have already worked. A lot of colleges aren...
...working in a decent place in a metro area, you may pull down in the $30,000 range. But I also know of waiters making poverty-level wages and some making between $80,000 and $100,000 a year. But most waiters don't have vacation, sick time, or health care...
...security inspections. When he finally does get home, his favorite dish of kidney and beans tastes awful. Because of endless delays caused by inspections of goods transported into the capital, only low-quality food is available at the markets, his wife tells him. "We can't even have a decent meal because of the Olympics?" Old Zhao says in a fit of anger. "Do those foreigners who are coming to Beijing for the Games get to eat vegetables...