Word: manuals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...China Blues (Anchor Books; 405 pages; $23.95), she flew to Beijing to join the workers' paradise. A valued propaganda asset, she was enrolled at Beijing University, along with minders assigned to ensure her political purity. To the horror of her fellow students, she clamored to experience the nobility of manual labor, and was eventually allowed to serve at a Beijing tool factory, pretending to make lathes. Her naivete proved to be almost, but not quite, invincible. She learned fluent Chinese by shouting ritual denunciations ("Down with counterrevolutionary element Yuan...") but eventually began to question the rigid ideological slogans...
...Wong left home in the U.S. and flew to Beijing to join the workers' paradise. A valued propaganda asset, she was enrolled at Beijing University along with minders assigned to ensure her political purity. To the horror of her fellow students, she clamored to experience the nobility of manual labor, and eventually was allowed to serve at a Beijing tool factory, pretending to make lathes. Her language skill, anonymous Chinese face and bumptious adventuring helped her catch on in Beijing as a reporter for the New York Times; years later, after working for papers in North America, she returned...
...father, who went to school only through sixth grade, is on disability and began working full-time at 13 doing mostly manual labor. Her mother, who earned a General Equivalency Diploma, processes personal income-tax forms...
...There's a certain enjoyment in manual labor and seeing something that you've cleaned and not having to think of anything for a while," says Lauralee Summer '98, who works between 7 and 14 hours a week in two jobs: dorm crew and the Radcliffe development office's alumnae phonathon...
...matter of "military utility." They explain that strategic doctrine has changed in the past generation, and current plans rely far less on mines than did those appropriate for wars of attrition. The capabilities the U.S. now emphasizes are speed, stealth and surprise. Even the Army's current manual on mines questions their usefulness, given the unpredictability of friendly troop movements. The military's most dramatic show of support for a ban came in April, when several prominent retired officers, including Norman Schwarzkopf, signed a full-page ad that ran in the New York Times. The ad called the prohibition...