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...could see his pets, which include four cheetahs and a lion. Sure, said the minister, "I'll show you how I play with them." Outside he let the lion off the leash and began wrestling with it on a small patch of grass. An aide fetched a plastic chair and placed it in the middle of the lawn so the minister could sit and be interviewed while playing with the lion...
...couple of days later, I'm in bed trying to inhale air through a blue plastic tube so as to raise a white plastic disc up past the 3,000-ml level. It's a version of the high-striker booth at the state fair meant to clear the lungs. The prize is a fit of coughing, which is good for your lungs and which feels like you're taking machine-gun rounds in the chest. But I keep making progress, not wanting to let down my buddies in the ward...
...liked The Boy in the Plastic Bubble. That we did with Travolta. But Satan's School for Girls was a hell of a title...
...along a cinder-paved alley leading to the Lianjiao Metal Processing Factory. The scene is typical of urban China's industrial districts; in Nanhai, a small city in booming, rough-and-tumble Guangdong province, scores of factories cluster together, their front yards choked with piles of twisted metal, junked plastic and old computer parts. But the killers who struck in the predawn hours of July 16 knew exactly which path would take them to their targets: Hou Kuo-li and Yeh Ming-yi, a pair of middle-aged businessmen from Taiwan who lived in the Lianjiao plant. Their bodies were...
...denying the first sight is awesome. The gardens, the ornamental fountains, the minarets, the enormous marble arches. You won't feel cheated. It is big enough. It is white enough. It stands against a clear skyline. The symmetry is perfect. As your senses recover, however, the brilliance fades. Plastic bottles litter the lawns, the canals are dirty, guides offering tours for an inflated price are maddeningly insistent. The colored engravings are chipped and, in places, have fallen off. The graves in the basement are off-limits, the entrance blocked with untidy wire mesh. The inner sanctum smells of bats...