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...Cultural Revolution, tried in vain to leave China by the front door. Last year he got out by the back, after appealing to a former student who had been put in charge of approving exit visas. Success stories of this kind have given rise to a popular new proverb in China: "When a man knows the way, even chickens and dogs can go to heaven...
...large, the poverty of the continent lies not in her 'poor' natural resources but in her people and the African character. Until we are ready to face the challenges, strangers will ever remain to exploit our continent. According to an old African proverb: the natives who defecate in their river must not blame strangers who fish in it for its pollution. Until we know the value of Africa, our continent will always remain an enigma...
...what he eats," says an old German proverb that has proved to be prophetic. Until about 1900, man was what he could get to eat, whether in Boston or Bangkok, and his food was nearly all prepared at or near his eating place. Then came the explosion of the food-processing industry, and humanity came to be distinguished not only by what it ate but by some new diseases related to foods. The most conspicuous dietary change in developed countries over the past 75 years has been an alpine increase in the consumption of hard fats, sugar and superrefined foods...
...touched, tapped or even taken apart to discover what lies within. A model of a diamond crystal is so large that children can play inside it. The Boston Children's Museum, headed by Pediatrician Benjamin Spock's son Michael, takes its cue from a Chinese proverb: "I hear and I forget, I see and remember, I do and I understand...
...Assoluta Natalia Makarova, who now makes about $300,000 a year from her dancing, took a great risk in defecting from the Kirov Ballet to perform in the alien world of Western ballet. But then Natasha, 36, has always been supremely confident of her talent. Recalling an old Russian proverb, she observes: "It is bad soldier who does not expect to be general...