Word: paralleling
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...amazing gold in them thar tourists became evident, Asia greedily tore down barriers to foreign travel. Over a decade, China went from being a xenophobic recluse to a tourism junkie . Vietnam pursued a parallel course; visas for travel there, formerly very difficult to obtain, were suddenly not a problem. The Western boom in Thai cuisine and a massive promotional campaign made the Thai kingdom a hot destination; the buoyant rise of tourism in Bali in the early 1990s encouraged the building of resorts in new destinations in the Indonesian archipelago, such as in neighboring Lombok. Even creepy Burma tried...
...Although Kabuki is an insular and conservative culture, it isn't the artistic trap it might seem. In fact, it's recently become a fertile breeding ground for film and TV talent. Twenty-five-year-old Shinnosuke Ichikawa cultivates a parallel career as a TV-drama heartthrob, and 20-year-old rising star Shichinosuke Nakamura landed a supporting role in this year's Tom Cruise vehicle The Last Samurai. Tokyo's Asakusa Kokaido theater has capitalized on the trend by staging Kabuki plays showcasing younger actors. "They realize that people like Shido are the key to Kabuki's future," says...
...Purser's guiding philosophy is what the British call doing well by doing good: as he enriches himself, he has made it his parallel goal to create a prosperous community of Javanese artisans. Now in his late 50s, Purser says that when he moved to Tembi in 1995, there were no roads and few jobs. "A lot of people had moved away to find work in the cities," he says. When he started Out of Asia, he surveyed the skills of the village's 800 people "with the objective of creating a job for at least one member of every...
...addicted to pills, she leaves the care of her two adopted, mentally disabled adult children mostly in Raina's hands. It's a testament to Thompson's intelligence as a storyteller that this sub-portrait becomes as fascinating as the main story. Raina's parent's difficulties have a parallel to Craig's own struggles . Raina describes them as "idealistic at first, but without enough strength to carry through with their commitment...
Jared Genser, Fu’s lawyer, said he was going on to push for “a parallel resolution in the Senate” in addition to “pursuing other ways to put multilateral pressure on the Chinese government...so that China will hear the message not just from...