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...investment is building roads and railways, opening textile factories and digging oil wells. You hear it on the farms of Brazil, where Chinese appetite for soy and beef has led to a booming export trade. And you hear it in Chiang Saen, a town on the Mekong River in northern Thailand, where locals used to subsist on whatever they could make from farming and smuggling--until Chinese engineers began blasting the rapids and reefs on the upper Mekong so that large boats could take Chinese-manufactured goods to markets in Southeast Asia. "Before the Chinese came here, you couldn...
While American exports to Southeast Asia have been virtually stagnant for the past five years, Chinese trade with the region is soaring. In the northern reaches of Thailand and Laos, you can find whole towns where Mandarin has become the common language and the yuan the local currency. In Chiang Saen, signs in Chinese read CALL CHINA FOR ONLY 12 BAHT A MINUTE. A sign outside the Glory Lotus hotel advertises CLEAN, CHEAP ROOMs in Chinese. It is not aid from the U.S. but trade with China--carried on new highways being built from Kunming in Yunnan province to Hanoi...
Ostheim in der Rhoen is a quiet German town in northern Bavaria. Picture-book pretty, with narrow, winding streets, it doesn't seem like a place where anything - let alone anything hip - ever happens. But this bucolic hamlet is the birthplace of Bionade, an all-natural soft drink that's become a national sensation (it more than tripled sales last year), one that its creators now hope to export worldwide...
...much of it. I mean we’re traveling cities all the time. It’s hard to see nothingness in life. I mean I spent some time in the fall and I used to live in cape Breton in a tiny little part of Canada, northern Nova Scotia. Lived there for a couple of winters and there’s a whole lot of nothingness there. (Pause)Landscape over structure. Rather than a building, we’re talking about the landscape. So there’s no vocals, there’s no solos...
...faced, while struggling to put up a consistent team performance. Tri-captain Bode Ogunwole and freshman J.P. O’Connor led the team with three victories each, but their performances were not enough to give Harvard its first dual match victory of the season. Harvard first faced Northern Colorado, losing 26-16, and then fell to Wisconsin, 39-9, and Boise State, 28-18. “I think we’re still adjusting to some of strategies that we’ve been working on,” Ogunwole said. “The coaches are just...