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...Chinese are also working to solve some of the infrastructure problems. Peng Pang, deputy director of Shenzhen's External Economy and Technology Office, points proudly to the city's construction bustle as proof that there will soon be adequate telephone and road service. Says a British engineer in Hong Kong: "Shenzhen may look chaotic now, but all this digging means that by next year all the basic utilities will be installed...
...Salyut, although it could be used for unmanned missions. The Soviets have indicated that they may dock an unmanned Cosmos satellite on Salyut soon, perhaps this week. After looking back at the ship for the last time, Kovalyonok rhapsodized: "It was so beautiful it gave my heart a pang...
...mystery takes on a different hue for homosexuals, but remains a mystery nonetheless. Many can take their preference without a pang of remorse and guilt; they only have to fear the repression and condescension from a society that targets them for debasement. But many cannot evade the question of why they are what they are. Emotional trauma over the stark facts has always led a few to suicide; others have been instilled with a morbid sense of shame and self-hatred. Moral revisionists will no doubt blame such personal tragedies on the evil influence of society and public opinion...
...matures as a perennial nymph, but she pales beside Snooky von Sickle, the brewery heiress of Wagnerian dimensions with whom Peachum shares many a back seat and shadowy glade. Yet love has its mysteries: when Peachum recalls having made unkind comments about Columbine's "doorbells," he feels a pang of remorse that is followed immediately by a twinge of desire. Peachum's entanglements are due to varying intentions of various d'Amboises. There is, for instance, his lust for Vim d'Amboise's wife Kathy, a Pocock police officer. "But soft," as De Vries might...
...Singapore. From 1975 through 1979, consumer prices in that booming island republic rose by only 3% a year. How was this possible? Through balanced budgets, cautions monetary policy and an enforced saving program that soaks about 30% of the nation's wage bill for capital spending. Explains Economist Pang Eng Fong: "There's a very Confucianist philosophy of government here that saving is good and spending...