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...little to spend on frills. Per capita annual income remains below $2,000. The average household saves more than 25% of its pay, in contrast to Americans, who in recent years have tended to spend more than they make. Just 4% of Chinese have credit cards, and purchases using plastic average less than $1,000 a year per cardholder. By Western standards, Chinese consumers simply have not yet begun to spend. As a result, "less than a handful of these new [malls] will meet expectations," Parker says. "China's most important cities are literally littered with spaces that are dark...
...months has been transformed because of this plane," says Paul Charles, director of communications for Virgin Atlantic, which has ordered 23 787-9s for delivery from 2011. "It's in the same league as the Wright Brothers' wooden plane, the first metal plane. And this is the first plastic plane," he says. "This is precisely the kind of milestone in the industry that we need...
...least cleaning my plate on behalf of all those starving children in Africa. But I can’t even manage that: Every time I open the refrigerator, out tumbles another Tupperware tub full of leftovers. How can I justify that kind of overabundance, that heavy plunk of plastic hitting the kitchen floor? Am I allowed a carefree and extravagant and totally unconstructive summer for myself—what a sympathetic (and perhaps enabling?) friend deems, a “season of grace?...
...Times article, we browsed the vendors near the intersection cited in the review. The first hit was a scallion pancake that set the standard for all scallion pancakes to come. This gem was still hot, full of flavor, and perfectly textured. It didn’t matter that the plastic wrapping almost melted from the heat of the pancake; this was seriously good eating...
...none of these do-good totes have approached the success of "I Am Not A Plastic Bag." If you weren't in line Wednesday morning, you still have a shot. On July 18 a new edition of the bag is launching at Whole Foods Markets on the East Coast...