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...natural resources, but we completely lack the technology or expertise [to exploit them]. So if we remain within China, we might get a greater benefit, provided it respects our culture and beautiful environment and gives us some kind of guarantee. For us [it would mean] more modernization. The new railway [into Tibet], for instance. This is generally speaking a good thing, very beneficial for development, providing it is not used politically...
...then meets up with an Indian princess named Pocahotness and a horny buffalo named Alma Stextinct along the way. The treasure-hunters run into trouble, however, when confronted by the vicious Rey El Road, a railway tycoon who exploits the West of its resources and wants the coveted Grail for himself...
...brick-lined walkways. Cambridge is the seventh largest city in the state, with over 40,000 residents in the age span of 18 to 29. Despite its presence of youth, the cobblestone streets speak to a revered past when the Square was no more than a nexus of street railway routes leading to Boston suburbs...
...would have been easy for the composer to fall back on a lush, serve-all orchestral cushion. But to his credit, he tries something sparse, minimalist and deliberately discomfiting. In a scene borrowed from a Charles Dickens story (The Signalman), the Act I curtain rises on a bitingly cold railway cutting, telegraph wires whipping ominously in the wind. It's an unsettling, otherworldly sound, and thereafter the score strains to upset expectations; major keys turn to minor with a shudder, songs end in a subdued moan. The arrangement is at its best for Laura's wedding scene, where a frighteningly...
...enveloped one-quarter of the world’s population. And in Dar es Salaam nowadays, the families of those one-time colonial mandarins are still taking care of a number of African states, although no longer affixed with the government’s imprimatur. The Indians brought on railway construction contracts by the Brits are today firmly in control of Tanzania’s economy—those parts, at least, not controlled by middling and bent civil servants. They run the mining industry, hair salons, banking houses and cafeterias...