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...Ding's prosperity is shared with just about everyone living in Yiwu, China's very own North Pole. Thousands of vendors offer whirling Christmas trees with glowing fiber-optic needles, chicken-feather angel wings and that traditional favorite without which no holiday living room is complete: the plastic statuette of Santa playing electric guitar on the moon. All this might have confused Chinese consumers a few years ago, but Yiwu is feeding a ravenous demand by mainland consumers who think that the height of contemporary urbanity is to festoon the living room in December. "I'd always heard of Christmas...
...Melvill scattered a handful of M&M's and watched them float. Binnie took out a tiny model of SpaceShipOne and flew it around the cabin. Then that crazy hinge raises the wings, Earth's gravity kicks in, and SpaceShipOne becomes a glider. "It's like falling into a feather bed," says Melvill...
...Maasdorp, who was picked to be a third-team All-American last season, this is just another feather in an already heavily decorated...
...Palestinians in the territories were incensed as the plum posts in the new Palestinian Authority went not to the local leaders who had sacrificed so much in the intifada, but to exiles who returned from Tunis with Arafat and in most cases rushed to use their new positions to feather their own nests. While Arafat enjoyed his new role as feted statesman in Western capitals, some painful realities didn't change for his people: The Israeli settler population of the West Bank doubled during the Oslo years, raising Palestinian suspicions over Israel's intentions. Meanwhile, on the Israeli side...
...affect their early-season performance. That may be true, and it may not be, but that question is irrelevant. Far more important is why Harvard, proud home of the nation’s largest Division I athletics program, consistently short changes those who provide that extra feather in President Lawrence H. Summers?...