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...receives nearly 90% of America's castoffs, recycling is a crude process carried out in places like Guiyu by tens of thousands of peasants equipped with the most rudimentary of tools. Components must be laboriously broken apart by hand. Some are dipped in acid baths to leach out precious metals, while the plastic covering on wiring is sometimes burned away to free the copper underneath...
...spent my first two hours in Bangkok stuck in crosstown traffic. With precious vacation time ticking away, I swore off wheeled transport and decided to take boats from then on. For most of Bangkok's 220-year history, boats were the only way to get around the Thai capital, which straddles both the Chao Phraya River and a tangled network of klongs, or canals. Even though many of the old waterways have been paved over, most of the city's major attractions can be reached by boat. The Chao Phraya Express serves the river like a public bus, stopping...
...came to this obscure location because, on that day, Lu Pinchang had come to give a slide show and lecture. I attempted to do some online research about the man, but was unable to find anything substantial since much of his website is in Chinese. For someone who knows precious little about the universities of contemporary China, his resumé was little more than a laundry list of accomplishments revealing nothing...
...touch of folksiness, some of the aw-shucks collar-tugging of an old artillery man blinking in the spotlight's white glare, and you have a fine war hero indeed. A real general, with real American soldiers on the ground under his command, - who realizes how fragile and precious a cargo that...
...only 10 months since the Levy-Condit scandal broke. Although Chandra Levy came into the news for tragic reasons she quickly ceased to be the impetus for investigation. Instead, journalists reported on Representative Gary Condit’s (D-Calif.) past extramarital affairs, again taking up countless hours of precious news time...