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...scouts' watchful eye. Sure, some guys have no intention of carrying their career beyond their senior year. Yet a surprising number--one player estimates that one-third to one ball of the current Harvard squad have professional aspirations Almost every starting player from catcher Vinnie Martelli and pitcher Jun Curtin to frosh third-baseman Scott Vierrasay they are seriously thinking about the pros...
...families that make up the village-size Jun Tan Production Brigade, only a few miles from the lordly Yangtze River in Anhui province, have made some coveted purchases recently: 44 radios, eleven sewing machines, five bicycles, 47 wristwatches and 17 wall clocks. In the affluent West, that might appear unremarkable; in China it is a veritable cornucopia of consumerism. Every family in the brigade possesses an alarm clock, 90% of the families have savings accounts. In the past two years 24 households have built solid brick and tile houses to replace their old mud-and-thatch homes, compared with...
...relatively well-off Jun Tan brigade is doing far better than the average Chinese rural village. Its per person annual revenue of $201 is well above the national rural average of only $91, and with good reason. Jun Tan's income has doubled since the brigade started practicing two years ago the responsibility system, the basic principle of which is pragmatic: produce more, keep more for yourself...
Until the policy began to be gradually introduced, all Chinese peasants were grouped into production teams that worked the land in common. Each laborer earned work points, which were exchanged for a ration of grain and a small cash stipend. But in Jun Tan, as in an estimated 40% of China's villages, work points have now been abolished. Instead, each family has been allocated a plot of land to farm as it sees fit. The peasant gets seed and fertilizer free the first year; the second year the farmer uses his own money, or borrows...
...incentives. Only a few years ago, even raising chickens or pigs privately was ruthlessly condemned as an example of "taking the capitalist road." Today families can decide for themselves how best to farm their land, and some family members have been freed for other cash-producing activities. In the Jun Tan brigade Carpenter Liu Zhangying, 34, receives $212 a year building furniture. He explains: "Before, I had to hand over more than half of my carpentry income in order to get the work points I needed for my grain ration. Now I get to keep everything I earn...