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...That experiment was a remarkable success. Eager to tap Shenzhen's low costs?especially for labor?foreign companies rushed into the SEZ, led by factory owners from nearby Hong Kong. The result was a decades-long boom, with Shenzhen's economy expanding at an average rate of 28% a year from 1980 to 2004, according to Hong Kong-based consulting firm Enright, Scott & Associates. Exports from Shenzhen reached $101.5 billion in 2005?13% of China's total. Today the city is home to some of China's most important electronics manufacturers, such as telecom-equipment firm Huawei Technologies and mobile...
...saying about restaurants, hotels, nightclubs and so on, in New York City; Seattle; Phoenix, Ariz.; and 21 other cities, or submit written reviews of your own. The site combines strong local search tools (like Google Maps) with a social networking approach--already the site is teeming with "Yelpers" eager to share--and the more user-generated content it compiles, the more useful it will be. So go out, eat and yelp. It's your civic duty...
...give us.Tonight I will ride the Fung Wah to New York, and by Sunday I will be in an airport lobby awaiting a flight to London. Three weeks later I’ll be back on campus, joined by classmates similarly disappointed that summer is over yet still eager to continue their hunt for experience and meaning. Like a compulsive gambler out of cash, we’ll wish we had one more chip to play, convinced our next move will be the one that hits the jackpot. Never complacent, we cannot concede victory, and so we look, indefatigably...
...century. I first heard about him in 1959 from the cartoonist Arnold Roth, who was a crucial contributor to the Harvey Kurtzman magazine Humbug, and who lived in Philadelphia, as I did. With a kindness that I think back on with gratitude and bafflement, he befriended this gauche but eager 14-year-old and, in the genial tutorial that was our conversations, recommended that I listen to Lenny's albums...
WEEDS SEASON 1 YOUR HUSBAND drops dead, your cash runs out, your son is making faux terrorist videos--it's enough to drive a suburban mom to smoke pot. Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker) sells it instead, to her eager neighbors, to keep her upscale lifestyle. Parker and creator Jenji Kohan pass up the chance for easy satire, making a wry, tender comedy about a woman trying to keep what she loves from going up in smoke...