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Emphasizing the cheapness inherent in the mini-magazine, Andrew Osborn '89 said, "We got a grant of $119 from the Office of the Arts, which actually takes us a long way because it only costs us $15 to put out each issue...
...agreement, and they're phony too, and beneath the glamour not very happy. Tales from the Hollywood Hills, a trio of short-story adaptations set in Tinseltown during the 1930s, trots out all the beloved stereotypes while flavorfully recapturing Hollywood's legendary golden age. Then, boldly, the mini-series abandons the legend and goes for a more subtly shaded truth...
...what has become a long-distance race along parallel tracks, the Chinese enjoy a lengthy lead. Reformer Deng's brand of "socialism with Chinese characteristics" has scored the most dramatic successes in the countryside. The roads of Sichuan province, the rice bowl of China, teem with bicycles and mini-tractors hauling everything from geese and green beans to bricks and black vinyl sofas. In Guanghan county, one of the first two regions in the country to abolish the Mao-inspired communes and lease land back to farmers % under the family contract system, the per capita income of agricultural workers...
...China's 800 million peasants aspire to the 10,000 yuan ($2,703) annual income of Sichuan Farmer Huang Xinzhi, 40, who built a mini-business empire from a flower-and-tree nursery business. In tribute, local officials awarded him a certificate with the message: "It is glorious and civilized to be wealthy through hard work." Still, since 1981 at least half of all rural families have built new homes. Bao Hongyuan, 38, lives with his parents, his wife and ten-year-old son in a new two-story, six-room house in the model Hong Qiao farming community...
...many universe theory maintains that there are an infinite number of isolated but related mini-universes, the offspring of a single original mother. "There exist many different mini-universes with all possible types of life inside them," Linde said...