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Zhang Weifang used to study the three Rs: reading, 'riting and rigging gunpowder canisters with flash fuses. Sitting at their desks in the Fanglin village school, she and her classmates each made 20 firecrackers per day that her teachers sold to middlemen who sold them to factories. "Sometimes the teachers beat us with a wooden plank," Zhang says. "Making fireworks is hard." It's also hazardous, especially when the workers are children who shouldn't be playing with fireworks, much less manufacturing them. Last week an explosion ripped apart Zhang's school in Jiangxi province, killing more than 40 students...
...world around us work at higher velocities. Caffeinated beverages have become increasingly popular as daily doses of induced speed. News clips and politician statements are shortened to mere seconds. Spectator sports, such as baseball, implement rules for the purpose of cutting the length of game play. Commercials flash past too quickly to be anything more than subliminal messages. Speed is discovered in new areas and pursued, everyone having the goal of living in the moment, or in "real time...
...initiative and are dictating the rules. Perhaps the international community thinks satisfying their present appetites would calm things down. I seriously doubt this. If such use of force as we're seeing in Macedonia is politically rewarded, everybody in the Balkans would immediately learn the lesson and new flash points will quickly emerge throughout the region...
...head. I froze with my mouth open. Pat held his hand to the side of his head. We all just stood there for a moment, then they moved away. It was a perfect Columbus moment, the kind combat troops describe - long days of boredom punctuated by a quick flash of terror...
...almost every spiritual institution imaginable, from the Greater Love Salvation Church to a marijuana farm in Hawaii, from the Consciousness Meditation Center to the Torah-Or Institute in Jerusalem. The object of Sharon's quest throughout all of her divergent spiritual paths is revelation. Sharon yearns for God to flash the answer to all of her questions right before her eyes, to hit her over the head and yell, "This is your bashert...