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...Chinese government that has committed the country to tapping its geothermal potential. But as is often the case, it's newly entrepreneurial citizens who are making things happen. One Chinese student who studied geothermal technology in Reykjavk went home to transform what had been a peasant village into a model geothermal development, with housing, pools and a recreation park all heated geothermally. "People can say a lot of things about the Chinese government," says Hans Bragi Bernhardsson, head of China operations for Enex. "But if they decide to do something, they achieve it." In this case, let's hope...
...Despite the risks and the poor chances of success, hundreds of petitioners still flock to the State Council Office each day. Among them, a few days ago, were four middle-aged peasant women from nearby Hebei Province. They have brought their petition to Beijing once a month or more for a decade says Yang Shuxia, a thickset 59-year-old bundled in four layers of clothing against the bitter winter cold. She and her companions seek a fair trial for their jailed relatives. In 1994, Yang explains, her son and three of his friends were arrested by police and charged...
...Though a sincere socialist, Filonov had too realistic a vision to be approved - or even accepted - by the Party and by his artistic peers loyal to the Party. He tried to fit in: he rechristened his Holy Family (1914) as Peasant Family. He painted and drew several masterpieces such as Tractor Workshop of the Putilov Iron Works (1932) and GOELRO (Lenin's Electrification Plan) (1930). But though their titles were unassailably in tune with the times, even an average party commissar could discern in them an inherent and uncomfortable truthfulness. Unable to get commissions, Filonov lived in poverty, occasionally working...
...pulls back, focusing instead on his devil-narrator and the Hitler family and ending the novel shortly after Adolf reaches adolescence.So the story goes something like this: a hellspawn is assigned to the Hitler family and follows an ambitious young man named Alois from his incestuous beginnings as a peasant to his rise in the civil government (complete with plenty of less-than-kosher sex) to his incestuous third marriage, which produced several children, including Adolf (known here as “Adi”). As the family—of which each member, with the notable exception of Adolf...
...recalls. "I said, 'I must check my e-mail; I haven't heard about that.'" More certain is that his next work for ADT will hit the spot. To be called G, it looks to deconstruct the romantic ballet Giselle, and one can foresee his heartbroken peasant girl being transported to the moonlit land of Wilis with maximum G force...