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...Children: the heirs of Deng's legacy Playing, laughing, sleeping--hardly the stuff of revolution. But the young stand to benefit most from the changes under way. A photo essay captures the faces of the future...
...tended to be an afterthought, a matter of fashioning inoffensive shells for cathode-ray tubes. Larry Vollum, a recent California State University graduate, won the first Burroughs design competition with an approach of a deeper sort. His MUSE prototype, a small computer grafted onto a versatile high-tech music stand, is the equivalent of a word processor for composers, performers, students and teachers. It enables them to add, change or erase notes and chords at will, add rhythm accompaniment, and play back part or all of a composition...
...long since had to forget Nikita Khrushchev's hollow boast that it would inevitably "bury" the U.S. by surpassing the American standard of living. Quite the opposite: the U.S.S.R.'s economic growth rate has slipped to about half the pace of the 1960s, and its citizens still have to stand in long lines for such minor amenities of life as toilet paper and detergent powder. On the most basic level, Moscow must import huge tonnages of grain from the capitalist world to keep the Soviet populace properly...
...Standing amid the lush bamboo groves and rice paddies of northwestern Sichuan province, the U-shaped farmhouse is typical of the local architecture, with a wooden frame, stucco walls and a gray tile roof. Ten families have subdivided the 16 rooms of the 100-year-old structure into 32 cubicles, and its courtyard is dotted with drying pepper bunches and ears of corn. In the center of these crowded communal quarters stand three rooms unused except by the 60 or so visitors who turn up daily to see the birthplace of Deng Xiaoping. But even the smattering of photographs...
...would echo that judgment. While Peking and Canton boast modern hotels and office towers, Shanghai looks frozen in time, a black-and-white photograph from the 1930s. The buildings along the Bund that housed the great British trading firms and banks before the 1949 Communist take-over still stand, but now they are sooty and decrepit, ghosts from another...