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...leaned on one or two of our arms, eyebrows up, neck painfully extended as far as it would go-he still couldn't see to the top of the lobby. He looked like a farmer at the World's Fair. It was a little bittersweet, but we were happy to be there with him seeing the impressive new digs for the first time. There was only one thing wrong though - he wouldn't say a word...
...Anji that process is just beginning. In 1993 Zhu Kanglin, then 23 and a farmer turned plastic-mold factory worker, scraped together $3,000; bought wheels, arms, foam padding and plywood chair bodies from local components manufacturers; and hired 20 friends to assemble the parts into finished products. Today his Heaven Office Furniture makes 1,000 kinds of office chairs, from executive models in black leather and chrome to squat cloth-clad cubicle standards. Zhu won his first export contract in 2004. He also attended the Cologne Furniture Fair in Germany and sent 80% of his $3 million output...
...Games. Today, there are more than 200 resorts nationwide, and the China Ski Association estimates that Chinese ski slopes will record more than 3 million visits this winter. Although the high price of lift tickets?a day pass at Lotus Mountain costs about $20, roughly equivalent to a local farmer's weekly salary?may limit the sport to yuppies, there's plenty of room for the sport to grow. China's middle class is 50 million strong and, by some estimates, could reach 170 million by 2010. The China...
...Kansas tenant farmer, Parks was working as a railway-car waiter in the 1930s when he picked up a magazine left by a passenger and had his first look at images of the Depression-era U.S. made by Dorothea Lange and other Farm Security Administration (FSA) photographers. Within a few years, he had bought a camera and started making portraits. By 1942 he was in Washington as an FSA photographer. On his first day there, Parks was refused service at a clothing store, theater and restaurant because he was black. He channeled his anger into his first famous photograph, made...
...Games. Today, there are more than 200 resorts nationwide, and the China Ski Association estimates that Chinese ski slopes will record more than 3 million visits this winter. Although the high price of lift tickets-a day pass at Lotus Mountain costs about $20, roughly equivalent to a local farmer's weekly salary-may limit the sport to yuppies, there's plenty of room for the sport to grow. China's middle class is 50 million strong and, by some estimates, could reach 170 million by 2010. The China...