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...first, Warner was searching for a connection between the present and China's brief but glorious seafaring past. In Nanjing he found it: a direct, 19th-generation descendant of the Grand Eunuch's favorite adopted nephew, named Zheng Zhihai (which means from the sea). This modest 53-year-old, dressed in a rumpled suit, hasn't exactly followed in his ancestor's glorious naval tradition; Zheng works as a toilet engineer in a Nanjing factory. Still, while China had largely forgotten his heroic ancestor, Zheng says family legends kept his exploits very much alive. Tales of his voyages were passed...
Even so, I shall still be happy to offer my own modest observations on the situation. We won’t necessarily be that much closer to a resolution, but meaningful participation in the discussion is a start. I suppose it’s the very least...
...Brad is the hundredth. He, a modest guy from Rhode Island, and would not put it this way, but we will: He is the exceptional exception...
...Thailand. Middle-class Thais in Bangkok are buzzing over the exoskeletal treats: "They have a rich texture, and the flavors are like nothing you've ever tasted," says Nusara Thaitawat, a former journalist and the author of Cuisine of Cambodia. And the business is creating a chain of modest wealth for farmers and sellers, making insects a commodity distributed across Thailand as efficiently as, say, artichokes in California. Tongchart supplies wholesalers as far north as Chiang Rai and as far south as Hat Yai. Some of them, in turn, are exporting to places like Hong Kong, Japan and Taiwan...
...years' worth of postings on the Usenet discussion group network, plus a five-language webpage translation service and a search facility for more than 150 million images. The San Francisco company says it plans to float a share offering before the end of the year, though with a relatively modest, post-dotcom-shakeout price tag of $250 million...