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...pages) presumes to tell you. A counterrevolution, probably violent, will come five years after China's entry into the World Trade Organization. If, as expected, China joins the WTO later this year, the apocalypse will therefore be upon us in 2006. And it will begin in the most prosaic setting: the lobbies of Chinese banks?as millions try to withdraw their savings and deposit them in Western banks...
...century dawns, China again is on a mission to open itself to the world. Tens of thousands of individuals are on the journey, people like Gong Jian, a 30-year-old exporter I met over tea in the elegant Portman Ritz-Carlton hotel in Shanghai. His title might sound prosaic: manager of footwear department No. 2 for Shanghai Lansheng Corp. But he exemplifies the cosmopolitan business Elite in China's coastal cities, leading the export charge that explains why Magic Chef refrigerators and seemingly everything else on sale at the 3,500 Wal-Mart department stores in the United States...
...they also serve who only twist the screws--as you'll learn from One Good Turn, a history of the humble screwdriver. It's just one of a spate of oddball history books that eschew the grand and the momentous in favor of the small, the prosaic and the overlooked. Recently we've seen or will soon see histories of, among other things, salt, the ostrich, New York City sewage, flattery and not one but two books about dust. But don't wait for them to show up as answers on Jeopardy; here's a quick survey of some...
...After which, UPN announced its newest acquisition... the WB's "Roswell," which came not with the romance of having been spirited off by a suitor who outbid a rival in a heated moment, but by the more prosaic route of having been cancelled. It's a welcome respite for the endearing sci-fi romance and its winning cast, but it does tend to undermine UPN's argument, which is that this is the type of UPN show that inspires devotion in viewers. Just not enough to keep it on the air at another network the same size...
...Outside of North Korea, no one has seen much of Kim Jong Nam or even knows much about him, so his surprising arrival caused quite a stir. But for a man whose family and homeland provoke considerable gossip, speculation and fear, he came, he said, for the most prosaic of reasons: he wanted to go to Disneyland...