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...Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, as the city is officially known, is literally at Hong Kong's border. After immigration, a visitor walks across a narrow bridge spanning a stinking, black canal?the first whiff of something rotten in the air?and steps directly into a city overeager to offer its wares. The first building to confront new arrivals is a six-storied, mirrored monument to China's status as the world's counterfeit capital. Shops display perfect replicas of Armani suits, Gucci handbags, Nike trainers, Rolex watches, Cartier jewelry, as well as racks of pirated videos and discs. Outside, televisions...
...When we disembarked in Florida, my grandmother took one look at my parents? haggard faces and swept my brother and me off to spoil us rotten, while my grandfather, chuckling, led my parents off to find a dark, quiet, childproof room. It?s very possible that my brother and I were holy terrors - although my sense is that we were actually pretty well behaved. No, it was mostly the inherent problem of long-distance train travel for people other than kids or crazy romantics: too slow, confining and expensive compared with the alternatives. My parents still blanch visibly whenever...
...first page of the latest issue, a story called "Payback," drawn by Dean Haspiel, sets the usual Pekar tone when he writes: "I think if you feel rotten most of the time by a certain age, you're always gonna feel lousy . . ." The rest of the piece boils down to a long explanation for why Haspiel was asked to draw the strip. Yes, it's completely self-reflexive and self-involved, another Pekar trait. Basically you like it if you like Pekar...
...loaded that it eliminates any hope for sane discussion. Who could be against giving people a “living wage”? Does that mean PSLM’s opponents advocate a “death wage” instead? They must be pretty rotten people, those anti-PSLM folks: they don’t even want to let the little guys at Harvard keep on living...
...mentality that made them successful businessmen, in fact, may be making them rotten ranchers. "All the time I hear they want to restore to the native habitat with buffalo and bluebonnets," says Neil Wilkins, a wildlife biologist at A&M. "They call and say, 'I've already cleared the brush, now what?'" Of course, they have destroyed the very habitat that attracted wildlife. "These people are used to running corporations, and, by gosh, they want to see some changes fast," says Wilkins. "They make sure some dirt gets pushed around, and more often than not it results in something...