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...Some Asian artists blame the consumerist hype on foreign collectors who impose their tastes - and dollars - on locals. "The foreigners already have an idea of what they expect from Chinese art, and they are more interested in works that have obvious Chinese symbols," says Shanghai artist Ding Yi, whose Mondrian-inspired geometries hardly betray his nationality. "It's very seductive," acknowledges Li Liang, the owner of Eastlink Gallery in Shanghai. "You know that if you put things up that look Chinese, they will sell well." But others worry that this impulse will only encourage soulless facsimiles with little cultural resonance...
...maintain the increase in efficiency is coming at the cost of lower water pressure. “The pressure is really bad, a lot worse than it was before,” said Samantha F. Drago ’11, a resident of Pennypacker. And Greenough resident Michael J. Ding ’11 said his entire room is dissatisfied with the new showerheads. However, Hegarty said he has not received any complaints from Leverett residents. “We did research and at other places that used them, they were well received,” he said. Mather House...
...Staff writer Jennifer Ding can be reached at ding@fas.harvard.edu...
...According to Wang Ding, a researcher at the Wuhan Institute of Hydrobiology and a leading expert on the baiji, damming on the river and noise from heavy boat traffic may have disoriented the dolphins, which are mostly blind and search for food in the sandy shallows using sonar. The confused and starving animals may then have wandered into boat propellers. Heavy dredging in shipping channels could also have made it harder for the animals to locate each other and hunt for increasingly scarce fish. "Dredging is a very serious problem," Wang says. "It destroys spawning grounds of fish. There...
...finest. The Swiss won 5-2, which might not suggest that the best-of-nine series was all that close. In fact, it was exceptionally so, and its twists and tensions occurred at a time when the oldest event in sport was crying out for a ding-dong contest. In victory, the comments of Alinghi president Ernesto Bertarelli were tinged as much with exhaustion as elation. "It has been much harder than I ever thought it would be," he said after SUI-100 edged out NZL-92 by 1 sec. on July 3 to complete the Swiss defence...