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...eyed girlfriend Yang Yin (Shu Qi) and other members of their underground band are skeptical. The mainlanders mock Michael's Hong Kongese-ness and bait him to party like a man. Michael (Daniel Wu) reaches into his pocket and pulls out some spliffs. "Ah," says Yang, "the Hong Kong peasant grows...
Sister Hong's brainwashing session began when her Bible class ended. Five peasant women had led the Catholic nun to a house in a distant village in Henan province two years ago so that she could teach the life of Jesus. Suddenly, the women vanished and a man entered. For the next five days he refused to let her leave and forced her to debate the Bible. He said the day of judgment is nigh. Jesus has returned. China?the Great Red Dragon from the Book of Revelations?faces destruction. By the end, "I was dizzy. I was confused...
Afghanistan's peasant warriors have a long history of fighting shoulder to shoulder against a common foe. The problem is getting them to stop turning their guns on each other once that foe has been vanquished. And that's a dilemma the U.S. and its allies may be inheriting as they move to strike against Osama Bin Laden's Taliban hosts...
...myriad tiny specialized workshops was the key to local industrial organization until the late 19th century, when a few pioneers had the idea of bringing all these craftsmen together under one roof. The Billodes factory, which opened in Le Locle in 1865, was among these precursors. But as the peasant-craftsmen became factory workers, a new means of passing on their specialized know-how became necessary. "It's the factories that created the modern training system," says Gérard Triponez, director of the college in Le Locle. "Before then, craftsmen would train a couple of apprentices themselves...
...Take Colombia, for example: A young boy or girl in rural Putumayo has the choice between the despairing poverty of peasant life, cultivating coca for sale to narco-traffickers, or joining the wealthiest guerrilla army in history, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia which is believed to rake in hundreds of millions of dollars every year from "taxing" the narcotics industry. They're well-fed, well-armed, and are even reported to take seaside vacations in Panama. Life in the FARC can be dangerous, of course - it is, after all, an army at war. But not necessarily more dangerous than...