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...didn't like salad, so they never had any. But those tomatoes were served at the first staff meal she ate at Chez Panisse, site of her dream job. "My meal is sort of like the edible sound track to my life," says Goin. "I chose Lang & Reed Cab Franc rather than some amazing million-dollar Burgundy, and I realize it's because it's the wine my husband and I fell in love over...
...prize for allusion must go to veteran American writer John Edgar Wideman. In response to Luc Lang's subversive tale of a zookeeper who teaches kids a lesson by getting his birds to bite them, Wideman pens a single, luminous, 2 1/2-page sentence about an American in Brittany who hears what he wrongly thinks is a demented young boy babbling incoherently. The story's title, Wolf Whistle, is the same as a 1993 Lewis Nordan novel about Emmett Till, the real-life civil rights martyr whose name Wideman's character eventually invokes: " ... I saw for the first time two parrots...
...expectations," Parker says. "China's most important cities are literally littered with spaces that are dark and underperforming." Statistics detailing nationwide vacancy rates for retail centers are hard to find, but in the economic powerhouses of Beijing and Shanghai, rates hover around 8%, according to real estate firm Jones Lang LaSalle. That's twice as high as rates in the strongest U.S. markets; in Singapore, less than 2% of retail space lacks tenants...
...investors, builders have little incentive to pick tenants carefully-and no incentive to ensure the facility is properly managed for the long haul. "If there's any empty stall when it comes close to time to open, all planning goes out the window," says David Hand, head of Jones Lang LaSalle's Beijing office, who estimates 95% of malls opened in China over the next five years will fail...
...photographs of Chinese factory workers were devastating. I immediately thought of Fritz Lang's 1927 masterpiece, Metropolis, in which industry dehumanizes people, turning them into factory robots...