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...believes the foreigners are having a positive impact in a town that as late as 1998 was getting no tourists. "Look at all the stuff we can sell them," says the chief, sitting shirtless on a wooden bench, flicking at a wasp with a loose sarong. "Food, skirts, backpacks, toilet paper, even strange things. Foreigners like to buy strange things." He cites the example of travelers purchasing monkeys made from coconut shells. "The more guesthouses we open," he says, "the more money we make, and the more of our people learn to speak English, and that's good...
...Omen A British company has invented a toilet, the Versatile Interactive Pan, that can analyze urine and stool samples?and notify a doctor of any problems via e-mail...
...shrimp from a plate next to him. "This is the intellectuals." Feng places the shrimp on top of the chili; the red flake disappears from view. Then Feng leans in, his raspy voice rising as he approaches the punch line. "But tomorrow morning, when you're sitting on the toilet"?he pops both the shrimp and chili in his mouth?"which one do you remember more: the shrimp or the chili...
...found it: a direct, 19th-generation descendant of the Grand Eunuch's favorite adopted nephew, named Zheng Zhihai (which means from the sea). This modest 53-year-old, dressed in a rumpled suit, hasn't exactly followed in his ancestor's glorious naval tradition; Zheng works as a toilet engineer in a Nanjing factory. Still, while China had largely forgotten his heroic ancestor, Zheng says family legends kept his exploits very much alive. Tales of his voyages were passed down through the generations like a fragment of silken embroidery. "Zheng He's one regret," says his descendant, "is that...
...pictures of me, and occasionally we'd engage in short, awkward phone conversations--not dissimilar to the workings of a kiddie-porn ring. But the checks-and-pictures ritual lost its utility ever since I got a paid job and am no longer cute when I sit on the toilet naked, at least in the opinion of most people who look through my wallet photos. Our relationship has become more forced and awkward, as if she's suddenly clued into the fact that I am here to replace...