Word: mao
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...constituent villages and bring in 5,000 laborers to create an enormous man-made lake as part of a program to attract real estate investment and tourism. They'd recommended that local leaders give Yu an audience and consider hiring him. "It sounds like the Great Leap Forward"?Mao's disastrous campaign to boost economic productivity in the 1950s?Yu said, as he sped toward Changgou in a van full of landscape designers. "But maybe I can stop them...
...brio. For weeks, France's universities have been on strike. The Sorbonne, the iconic epicenter of the May 1968 student revolts that ushered in a new era in France, has been closed for the past two weeks. At issue this time are not the heady concerns of 1968: Vietnam, Mao, Foucault and free love. The rallying point is far less stirring: a law backed by Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin that is meant to reduce France's chronic and debilitating youth unemployment, which stands at 22%--and at more than 40% in the poorer banlieues that exploded in rioting last...
...week-long session on Tuesday. Here was Premier Wen Jiabao intoning the importance of "building a new socialist countryside." There were education officials unveiling a campaign to publish dozens of new Marxist university textbooks. NPC delegates, who had dutifully attended mandatory sessions to study speeches by Chairman Mao, even failed to pass a Western-style property rights law because, in part, Party leftists felt the proposed legislation might enshrine private property-a clear socialist...
...that effect, Hu has presided over a recent crackdown on the media and political dissidents, a campaign that hasn't spared leftist thinkers either. Shortly before the NPC began, three leading leftist websites were shut down, including one dedicated to promoting Marxism and Mao Zedong Thought. Last month, Lang Xianping, a popular TV commentator who characterized the sale of Chinese state assets as plundering national treasure, had the plug pulled on his show...
...cuteness and blackness," says Tokyo-based design team Devilrobots. The toys can be unsettling. You start to imagine what Budnitz describes as their "complex emotional state." A rabbit-shaped figure with the face of Lenin and his own copy of Das Kapital will join such Dunnys as a smoking Mao Zedong and "Mrs. Mao" on April 27. Fastidious refrigerator natives, Ice-Bots use crampons and ice picks to navigate your freezer. "Purely happy is completely uninteresting," Budnitz says. "Cute and mad, cute and scary are interesting." At Kidrobot's three boutiques, the toys range in price from...