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...foresee a crackdown after Deng passes. Support for greater central control of the economy could come from party officials fearful of losing control and from ordinary citizens envious of the new rich class. The Chinese press already reports many stories about this "red-eyed disease," like one about a peasant woman who poisoned all the ducks of a prosperous neighboring farmer...
...floor," says Tracey Ross, owner of her eponymous West Hollywood boutique. "She is definitely driving the whole contemporary market. They're all looking to her." Indeed, at Paris runway shows and Hollywood premieres, stars from Portman to Jennifer Connelly are turning up in Chloé's soft-flowing dresses, peasant skirts and chunky heeled boots. Her influence is spreading even to women who have to pay for their clothes. Not since Helmut Lang introduced superskinny stovepipe pants in the early 1990s has fashion seen such a radical shift in shape. "She has absolute precision in terms of being able...
...Club outside Beijing, it's different. Alan Li, 31, the store's deputy manager, encourages workers to contribute ideas about efficiency, and managers tell employees what's going on. "It doesn't matter who you know here," says Li, a high school graduate from a peasant family in rural China. "All that matters is your work." In a country of 1.3 billion people, the Wal-Mart way may not yet amount to a great leap forward. But it is progress...
Last summer Yu chartered a bus and drove peasants from a proposed dam area along the upper Salween to visit a 10-year-old dam a few hours away. The government had celebrated the Manwan Dam as a model of development for its cheap electricity and successful relocation of 3,500 people. The visitors saw something different: peasant women picking through the hydropower station's garbage dump for plastic bottles to recycle for pennies. Sobbing, the women explained that they had not found jobs after losing their land. The scene was captured in an underground documentary that environmentalists have passed...
...temperatures start to soar, fashionistas are turning to cropped shorts as a cool way to survive the season. Worn with snug jackets or sweatshirts, flats or heels, shorts are an accessible alternative to the ubiquitous--and sometimes sloppy-looking--peasant skirt. Tommy Hilfiger gives his a decidedly dressed-down feeling, pairing them with striped blazers, flat sandals and silk-ribbon belts, right. Meanwhile, Kenneth Cole goes for a more tailored look, inset. Dressed up or down, shorts can move from the workplace to the weekend without too much hassle...