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...white ghetto boy, a loner, a hippie, and a tough guy (a-bit-too-cutely-named Warren Peace) are among the Sidekicks attending Sky High. They are predictable, though sweet in their lack of power—one melts, one glows, and another can even turn into a guinea pig...
...Shaanxi officials say they regretted transferring the rights almost immediately. "Workers in pig slaughterhouses became oil-company bosses," says Wang Dengji, mayor of Yulin city in the center of the oil-bearing area. "They caused serious pollution and serious waste." There was another problem: China deems oil a national resource. The State Council in 1999 declared the independent wells illegal and ordered a "rectification...
...feng shui master, who rotated the front gate, repositioned cash registers and ordered boulders set in key locations to ensure the park's prosperity. He even chose the park's "auspicious" opening date. New construction was often begun with a traditional good-luck ceremony featuring a carved suckling pig. (Ironically, Disney kicked up trouble not by being too American but by being too Chinese. Disney offered to serve shark-fin soup at banquets, but the local favorite got yanked from the menu in June after environmentalists, who blame consumption of the delicacy for endangering the global shark population, howled...
...media play so endlessly on themes of violence and aggression that they become, to the young at least, an accepted part of life. Wholesale renunciation of traditional values -the death of faith, the obsolescence of marriage, the campus as a locale for riot, the cop seen as pig-casts the adolescent adrift from all moorings. In this respect, according to Zimbardo, vandalism is "an attempt to show you have some effect on your environment. Destructive acts are chosen because they are more readily seen and because they are often more easily accomplished than constructive ones...
...emotional abilities was empathy--the gift of putting himself in the place of others, to experience what they were feeling, to understand their motives and desires. Even as a child, he was uncommonly tender-hearted. He once stopped and tracked back half a mile to rescue a pig caught in a mire--not because he loved the pig, recollected a friend, "just to take a pain out of his own mind." As a young member of the state legislature, he was known for his insight into the opposition's strategy. Even after leaving the body, he would be called upon...