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...they like his strong jaw and jutting cheekbones. Married women prefer his listening skills and languorous back rubs. For an all-night chat session with these lonely wives, Zhang expects only a good dinner and a little farewell gift, like a leather cell-phone holder or monogrammed gold lighter. But if they want something more, he expects at least $120 in cash. "We never talk about price beforehand," he says. "That's tacky. But these women know how these things work...
...quieter, lighter and smoother b) Was tested only on butter roads c) Comes with cute, ear-shaped axles d) Beats Firestone's new nitroglycerin tire...
...difference between the two campaigns is immediately apparent at street level. On an outing in Paris' fashionable first arrondissement last week, Séguin wound up having coffee in a local bistro with fellow rpr candidates. Looking tired and downcast, he fiddled quietly with a silver lighter as his colleagues talked bravely about how "our message is finally getting through." On the same day Delanoë, accompanied by Education Minister Jack Lang and Interior Minister Daniel Vaillant, strolled triumphantly through the poor but bustling 18th arrondissement surrounded by journalists and well-wishers. "Paris needs an alternative," he said...
...cars have engine blocks of 1960s vintage; neither you nor I have bought a car with a carburetor for 15 years, but Earnhardt drove one at Daytona. Certainly his Monte Carlo was a modified machine: its engine had been juiced to about 720 h.p.; its sheet-metal skin was lighter than a road-ready car's; its roll bars were designed to render the cab a fast-moving cage...
...Jacky pauses as she adjusts the flame on a lighter. "Why don't you smoke?" she asks...