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...days before the Sept. 2000 grand opening of a replica of Amsterdam's railway station at his Holland Village property development in the Chinese rust-belt city of Shenyang, agri-business tycoon Yang Bin decided he wanted the large greenhouses nearby filled with flora so visitors would get the impression the project was on track. Yang's farm experts protested there was no way to grow the requested tulip and orchid plants that quickly. Undeterred, Yang went out and bought them from local farmers, replanted them in the greenhouses and passed them off as his own. "If you work...
...blaring clubs. Within their glowing interiors, the shops offer silverware, jewelry, furniture, chandeliers and other accessories to suit virtually every taste and budget. As you might expect, there are heirlooms from the region's antebellum plantations, but most stores feature antiques from England and France, with a smattering from Holland, Italy and Germany. The treasures range from a $35 piece of silver flatware to a $50,000 rare armoire to a $265,000 Baccarat crystal chandelier...
...wrong," says Roach. He's not alone. AGRICULTURE Let them eat beef It seems like good news, unless you're a cow: 19 months after the foot-and-mouth crisis stopped exports from Britain, the first shipment of beef left Wales, bound for the gourmet market in Holland. Back in 1995 British beef was big business, with 274,000 tons, worth $810 million, shipped around the world. Then BSE, or "mad cow" disease, laid waste to the industry. The French, who imported 100,000 tons annually, banned British beef, as did almost everyone else. Even in 1999, when...
...should make it easier to take it away." The idea offends Ali Aslan, 24, a Rotterdam-born steelworker whose father came from Turkey 35 years ago to work. "If you break the law, you should be punished," he says. "But send me back to my own country? That's Holland, whether they like it or not." So far a proposal for such expulsions from the new LPF Minister for Immigration and Integration Hilbrand Nawijn has been roundly rejected by his coalition partners. Robert Roks, the principal of a special school for foreign-born children in Rotterdam's Spangen neighborhood, will...
...living, laughing, sweating, coruscating mass of gorgeous words. Don't be put off by the setting--London, 1874--or the length, or that unfortunate, overlong stuffed shirt of a title. Don't worry about its author's ominously French-sounding name (Faber is actually a Scot by way of Holland and Australia). Ever since last fall readers have been watching for another knockdown, breakout book on the order of Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections. It's here...