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...first thing you notice when getting on board is the new-car smell. "No wonder," says the flight attendant, hearing your remark. She points to a metal plaque on the doorway rim that says the Airbus A320 was delivered only a month ago. Then there are the blue potato chips from naturally blue potatoes. The free cable TV on your personal video screen. The leather seats. Flight attendants with a sense of fun about their jobs and a can-do pilot who informs over the p.a. system that yes, there's a major storm coming into the New York City...
...when I programmed it for the first time after coming home one Saturday night--the last I would ever spend outside my apartment--I decided to try to impress it, so I'd get pooled with the smart people. I asked it to tape Meet the Press, Full Metal Jacket and some British sitcom called Keeping Up Appearances...
Just east of the Sanlitun area, the ever-expanding Loft, a spot popular with chuppies, is a study in mixed metaphors. Its TV-lined industrial interior sports metal-tube chairs inspired by traditional Chinese designs, and a sizable dance floor. Go through the small art gallery to reach a tented beer garden where a lone cellist plays on a balcony, occasionally obscured by smoke from the barbecue. A couple of caveats: some regulars complain the sound system needs an overhaul, and the crowds tend to move on by midnight. But if beer and kebabs are your thing, call...
...room. Barred windows send blocks of light onto a once white linoleum floor. Although this is a hospital, it smells of neither sterilization fluid nor menthol rub, but of human sweat. Along a dim hallway, young women in all stages of pregnancy wait on more paint-chipped benches. A metal examination table, stirrups down and unused, lies to one side. There is no central air-conditioning...
...Equally worrying for Asia are people like Choi Man Jin, head of Union Metal, a small assembler of air-conditioning parts in the Nandong Industrial Park, west of Seoul. Choi says he has halved his staff, and his orders have all but dried up. Hurt badly by Korea's high cost of labor and the economic slump, he is thinking about moving to China. Hundreds of his compatriots have already gone, and big companies in Taiwan, Malaysia and Thailand are doing the same. "China has the potential to wipe Southeast Asia off the map as a manufacturing base," says Michael...