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Last Thursday, with the Quannam World Tour 2004, Gab was able to tour in Boston with his entire extended musical family, and the atmosphere was as intimate as any lakefront reunion picnic. Quannam Projects, formerly known as Solesides, was founded by DJ Shadow, Gab, Blackalicious DJ Chief Xcel and their friends in the scene around the University of California, Davis in 1992. DJ Shadow was the biggest draw, with a following only rivaled by Blackalicious themselves, followed by the duo Latyrx (made up of idiosyncratic MCs Lateef the Truth Speaker and Lyrics Born, who also has a new solo album...
...acres near Indio and proceeded to sink more than $10 million into a vinyl-lined lake covering 46 acres at depths of up to 12 ft. It is big enough for water skiing, stocked with catfish and ringed with swaying reeds. And where there is lake, there is lakefront property or in this case, estate lots. "It's just like being on the beach, only we put it in the desert," says Loder. He has sold 32 of the planned 48 lots, priced at $400,000 and up. Other developers are rushing to assemble their own desert-lake parcels...
...campaign at times resembles the excesses of the Cultural Revolution of Mao Zedong. The government has launched a drive to secure 1 million children's signatures opposing Falun Gong. In the lakefront city of Hangzhou in eastern China, grammar-school students recently attended a lecture by their principal on the evils of the group. Afterward, students took turns facing their classmates to swear: "I do not believe in Falun Gong. I believe in science." Eight-year-old Yu Xiaohong stunned his teachers by striding forward and declaring, "I do not believe in Falun Gong. I believe in Jesus." The teachers...
...Tiananmen Square in 1989, Hu remained at home in central China cramming for college entrance exams. The work paid off. She earned a spot at Shanghai's prestigious Jiaotong University and later a job as a software programmer at one of China's most successful companies in the eastern lakefront city of Hangzhou. It was there that Wang Youcai, a lanky fellow programmer, first asked her for a date. She turned him down. He'd spent four years in prison for helping lead the Tiananmen uprising and she assumed, as she had been taught, "that made him a bad person...
...Gulf War. When the conflict ended, she wanted to share her faith, hoping for a mission post in what she considered the world's most troubled region, Africa. Instead, her church sent her to China to teach university students. Goodspeed, 56, carried her Bible and her activism to the lakefront city of Hangzhou in eastern China. There she developed a popular style: she asks students to submit journals, which she returns with comments. The method builds intimate relationships, and her students often open up to her in ways they wouldn't with their closest friends. One student recently wondered...