Word: mao
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...Half a century ago, Chairman Mao Zedong, himself a native of Hunan province, declared war on the diseases ravaging China's countryside. One of his major battles was against the fearsome Schistosoma fluke, which infected 12 million Chinese in 1949 and, according to the World Health Organization (who), is still the world's second-most-debilitating parasitic disease, after malaria. Employing troops of pesticide-wielding workers to eradicate snails and offering free health checkups and medicine for all those living in the schistosomiasis-prone Yangtze River region, China slashed the number of victims to 2.5 million...
...Part of KFC's triumph can be attributed to its first-mover advantage. The company's initial outlet opened in Beijing within sight of Chairman Mao's mausoleum in Tiananmen Square in 1987, a time when many Chinese still wore blue Mao suits and refrigerators were transported by tricycles. There were no fast- food restaurants anywhere on the mainland. (McDonald's debuted in Shenzhen in 1990 and came to Beijing in 1992.) The company made some early missteps: for example, KFC's advertising slogan "finger-lickin' good" was mistranslated into Chinese characters that meant "eat your fingers off." But China...
...begins with Chavez sitting on a dorm room desk, bobbing his head and waving his arms to the remix, while Fang, Mao, and Nguyen sway arm-in-arm in the background. When Kelly croons, “You must be a football coach/The way you’ve got me playing the field,” Fang is hit in the face by a football propelled at high velocity from an unspecified source. Other highlights include Chavez downing a gallon of milk on “sippin’ on coke and rum;” Nguyen?...
...March 24, 2003, Bryan Chavez, now a junior at Duke University, approached friends Lam Nguyen and Vincent Mao, asking for assistance with a present for his then-girlfriend: an original music video to R. Kelly’s “Ignition (Remix).” “I hate to sound like something ripped out of a cheesy movie, but to be honest, all this hoopla started because of a girl,” says Chavez. Chavez rounded up Isaac Chan, John Fang, and Matt Vasievich, three other members of their crew, “6-Angst?...
...days—but not always easy. “The scene with the most takes was the opening one where someone had to throw a small football at John’s face and it hit him at the wrong time or the wrong place,” Mao says. And although it may be like murder she wrote once R. Kelly gets you out them clothes, providing the viewer with that illusion of 6-Angst proved difficult to coordinate. “It took us forever to do the shower scene,” says...