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...remainder of the group returned by bus on Wednesday afternoon to Elim College. The school released brief profiles of the deceased students: Natasha Bray, Floyd Fernandes, Tara Gregory, Huan Hsu, Portia McPhail and Anthony Mulder. McPhail's reads, in part: "Portia was a gentle, kind, mature girl who loved playing and coaching netball." Teacher McLean is described as "an amazing teacher who loved God, life, students and sport." Natasha Bray's father said the loss of his daughter had shaken his faith, but he did not blame the OPC. "They have got a process to go through," he said...
...avowed goal is to replace "administrative planning"--that is, direct orders on what and how much to produce--with a looser system of "guidance planning." Central planning, explains Huan Xiang, director general of Peking's Center for International Studies, "seriously hampered the initiative and creativity of enterprises and workers and to a great extent emasculated what would otherwise have been a vigorous economy. The more centralized, the more rigid; the more rigid, the lazier the people; the lazier the people, the poorer they are." Managers now are supposed to hustle in response to the same signals--interest rates, market demand...
...Chinese outlook, TIME's Pacific Board invited its first guest economist from the People's Republic: Huan Xiang, the director general of Peking's Center for International Studies. Huan reported that Deng's reforms have been a tonic for the Chinese economy, but its runaway 12% growth rate is a bit more than the country can handle. The quality of many manufactured goods is suffering, and inflation is a disturbing 8%. A flood of imports has created a record trade deficit of more than $4 billion this year. Said Huan: "We have been on a spree of building too much...
...slow things down, the government has curbed the money supply and put new limits on foreign purchases. Two weeks ago, for example, Peking slapped a two-year ban on imports of cars and trucks, Huan predicted that all those measures would reduce growth slightly, perhaps to 9%, next year. Despite China's growing pains, Huan thinks the country will stay on its new course. Said he: "We must not be afraid of learning from the capitalists...
...sound was deep, resonant and clear. For the unveiling of My Sydney at the Museum of Contemporary Art in March last year, Chinese performance artist Zhang Huan oversaw the ritualized shearing of a sheep, whose wool he later walked over, before a Buddhist temple bell was struck by a life-size bronze cast of the artist's naked body. For whom the bell tolls ? These days in the world of contemporary art, it seems to be tolling for China - from established art stars like Zhang and gunpowder virtuoso Cai Guo-Qiang to the new generation of artists, spawned...