Word: trees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beautiful day for a wedding -- crisp, clear and, for China in midsummer, relatively cool. The latest typhoon's high winds have swept away the air pollution, and under a brilliant blue sky the guests are chatting in the hollow of a terraced field beside a single spindly tree -- symbolic decoration in a country whose scant arable land continues to disappear. Arranged neatly alongside the makeshift altar, the gifts intended for the bride's parents include a new refrigerator, a 24-in. color television set and a jet black Yamaha motorcycle. The presents are ogled, but atop the TV a photograph...
...back to China, Quan stopped in California to pick up some orange- tree saplings. "You know the Chinese were the first to grow orange trees," he says. "But like a good deal else that the Chinese invented first, they had forgotten how to do it." Today almost all the villages around Quan's 300-acre farm, which may be the largest private landholding in China, are growing oranges...
Three men were arrested and approximately $ 10 million in cash seized at the warehouse on an upscale, tree-lined street in the mostly residential community of Sylmar near the San Gabriel Mountain foothills...
East meets West. Ivy meets Pac-10. The Stanford Tree might even change its leaves' colors for this...
Harvard must contain Stanford to no more than that today, lest the Tree plant its roots in Cambridge...