Word: teas
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...while charitable giving, community service and voter participation have all fallen. One-third of all Americans cannot name one of the five freedoms protected by the First Amendment. It's hard to believe there wasn't more responsibility--both personally and politically--two-hundred years ago: we were dumping tea in harbors, reading the [Federalist] papers and thirstily discussing politics, weren't we? There is, of course, a more complex relationship among these factors than I imply, and I am resolute that, overall, our society is more complex now than it has ever been. But though the number of laws...
...today's complicated reforms. "We respect Mao, not Deng," says Liang. "Deng forgot about us." The people of Shenyang resent the way the city has been left behind by the capitalist advances in Shanghai and Guangzhou. At Liang's old workplace, his friends sit around all day grousing, drinking tea and reading the papers until the shift whistle blows. "We call it the nonworking day," he says. "The managers are screwing things up, and they have to leave. It's not our fault there's nothing to do." During Mao's time, he says, "we would work hard because...
...author and the theater mogul first met three years ago for lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York City. E.L. Doctorow was impressed, first of all, that Garth Drabinsky--the Canadian producer who wanted to turn his novel Ragtime into a musical--agreed with him about the 1981 movie version: they both disliked it. He was impressed too that Drabinsky seemed to have read the book closely and thought about it deeply. "He's an interesting amalgam of old-time entrepreneurial showman and genuine theater enthusiast," says Doctorow. "He has real taste. And he's not afraid...
...GREEN TEA Researchers have found the component in the tea that may help prevent cancer. The compound ECGC seems to inhibit the activity of an enzyme that breaks down healthy tissue...
...your item on the marriage of the X-Files' David Duchovny and television actress Tea Leoni [PEOPLE, May 19], you referred to me as a "Daily News columnist." My newspapers are Newsday and the New York Post, plus 60 others across the country that carry my column. I haven't worked at the Daily News for more than six years. LIZ SMITH New York City...