Word: poplar
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...they're calling themselves bumpkins. Yu himself remembers being called tu when he arrived in Beijing from a rice farm in Zhejiang to enroll at the Beijing University of Forestry in 1980. He was 17, could barely speak Mandarin and was awestruck by the straightness of the city's poplar-lined roads. This "farmerist outlook," as Yu describes his own first impressions of Beijing, is the reason Chinese cities look the way they do: "We're a country of farmers. When we make it to the city we want to feel as far away from the land as possible...
...Numbers 5% Tax proposed by China's Ministry of Finance on disposable wooden chopsticks, under a timber-conservation law that takes effect April 1 25 million Number of full-grown poplar and birch trees felled in China in order to produce 45 billion pairs of chopsticks a year...
...that direction," says Amory Lovins, director of the Rocky Mountain Institute, a think tank that advocates a radical restructuring of the energy economy. Shell has become the largest seller of biofuels, he says: "We're talking about new processes for turning woody, weedy plants like switch grass and poplar--also crop waste like wheat straw--into cellulosic ethanol...
...scenic town set amid rippling cornfields and rolling meadows. Last week its citizens were almost as excited about GM's imminent arrival as they were over an important Little League game in which Andersen's Hardware blasted Jack Warren's Stables by a 30-14 score. At the Poplar Inn on Main Street, where townspeople and truckers can always enjoy pork tenderloin, biscuits and the latest gossip, diners were abuzz about how Maclin Davis, a Nashville lawyer, had accumulated options to buy 4,000 acres around Haynes Haven farm. A few residents had mixed emotions. "I will hate...
...then he went even further, to the rural communities that Presidents don't visit very much because of the potential inefficiencies of spending precious time on such sparsely populated locales. Bush put dozens of such communities on his itinerary, and he can still rattle off their names. In "Poplar Bluff, Mo.," he notes, "23,000 people showed up in a town of 16,000 people." He won 97 of the 100 fastest-growing counties in the country--generally by a wide margin. Visiting so many obscure towns, Bush says in retrospect, "was an interesting strategy that really paid...