Word: puli
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...probably won't notice any butterflies in Puli this week. The little town in central Taiwan has long been known for its butterflies as well as its Buddhist temples, its scenery and its rice wine. If you could forget that Puli, along with the rest of Taiwan, sits directly atop the juncture of two great tectonic plates, the town would seem idyllic...
Last week the plates made it impossible to forget. At 1:47 on Tuesday morning, Taiwan was slammed by a 7.6-magnitude earthquake. Centered near Puli, the quake left nearly 2,000 dead and at least 100,000 homeless and toppled some 6,000 buildings. Relief agencies from around the world, including the U.S., Turkey and Russia, mobilized to help. In financial centers, stocks took a pounding of their own as investors fretted about what the shutdown of Taiwan's microchip industry would mean to the always jumpy electronics sector...
Just which buildings survived was partly determined by which ones conformed to Taiwan's sometimes laxly enforced construction codes. Puli was especially hard hit because many of its buildings are made of mud and straw. The Sungshan complex might have survived except that earlier this year, a bank on its first two floors reportedly stripped steel beams of concrete reinforcement during renovations...
...dogs beat ESPN's star-studded ESPY Awards in the ratings. Not that Westminster doesn't have its stars. Bill Cosby owns a highly regarded lakeland terrier, Greg Louganis entered a Rhodesian Ridgeback and Green Bay quarterback Brett Favre's cousin, C.J. Favre, showed a puli and a Kerry blue. In general, there is an appealing warp to the woof at Westminster: Where else can you find society matrons whooping it up with 4-H Clubbers, or vendors bellowing "Champagne here"? A vendor named Jerry hawks the catalog by calling out "Get your Bow-Wow Bible, your Doggy Diary, your...