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...would think that China's Donald Trump would be an ex-People's Liberation Army soldier who majored in drainage at the Lanzhou Railroad College? But Wang Shi, who made a spectacular decision in 1984 when he moved to a tiny backwater called Shenzhen, is the country's most successful real estate mogul. He heeded Deng Xiaoping's call to explore the virtues of capitalism, starting a trading company that moved everything from copy machines to the odd crate of shellfish. Although private property was still a dirty word in communist China, in 1993 Wang invested in real estate...
...options are limited for Washington and Seoul, they are worse still for North Koreans. During the famine of the 1990s, tens of thousands of them survived by escaping to neighboring China, with some finding their way to new lives in South Korea. In recent years, an underground "railroad" run by human-rights activists, defectors and people smugglers has ensured a steady stream of North Koreans are able to flee. A record 1,894 refugees arrived in South Korea in 2004, many brought out by family members who had already made it to the South, according to NGOs...
...mother's family didn't appreciate what my father did. They did not respect him because he was not steadfast as a father, and they couldn't understand how someone could make a living as an actor. You farmed for a living. You went to work on the railroad for a living. My family couldn't imagine going to college--and especially spending money to go to college--for anything except doctoring, lawyering or engineering. They made it very difficult for me to ever see my father, and they forbade me from ever talking about being an actor...
...years ago. In those days 40% of the population was reaping and sowing, herding and mowing its way through life on preindustrial farms. In coastal cities, strong-shouldered stevedores were loading and unloading ships dawn to dusk without a container or stacking crane in sight. Builders, lumberjacks and railroad men drove nails or sawed wood with their muscles, not power tools. And for those doing the washing, cooking and scrubbing at home, life wasn't so dainty either. (Ever pick up one of those 8-lb. solid-metal weights that gave ironing its name?) In that bygone, sweat-drenched...
...inundate one acre to the level of a foot and is roughly the quantity used annually by a family of four). Babbitt, who is fond of calling CAP his state's "last water hole," likens the effect of its start-up to the arrival of the first transcontinental railroad in 1882. Says Don Anderson, the project's chief engineer: "Without it, growth in Arizona would have to stop...