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...Trendies in Shanghai can shop for Tibetan jewelry at boutiques just off the glitziest commercial street. At the Traditional Tibetan Medicine Hospital in Beijing, director Renwang Ciren spent a recent morning tending to the ailments of six air-force officers. He says 90% of his patients are Chinese, a vast increase over past years...
...starts innocently enough (if anything is innocent in Las Vegas) with arrival at the city's huge and bland convention center. Once inside, two vast halls have been transformed into what resembles a pair of aircraft hangars decorated by a team of demented TV junkies. There are massive stands taken by the major TV producers, such as Paramount, Columbia and Warner Bros. Huge signs feature talk-show hosts flashing blindingly white teeth and hopeful slogans such as "cleared in 80 percent of the country" ("cleared" means sold; loosely translated, the sign is challenging the other 20 percent to jump...
...months go by and the new red-conservative administration creates a program and a record - facts on the ground - and as the realities of power organize their own dynamic. Americans in the past have been pretty good at outgrowing their hatreds; they have had the Constitution, material abundance and vast physical space to help them...
...rage, grievance, and bitterness will harden, with what ugly result down the road? America will become a vast superpower Northern Ireland of the mouth, and the election of 2000 will seem like the Battle of the Boyne, and the Troubles will just go on and on. Within limits, of course, that is just political normality, only nastier...
...care what either you or your politically inclined mother think about my beloved Sunshine State. Sure, Florida has received some negative press recently about the whole election and yes, the vast majority of my elected officials are complete morons. Granted, the elderly can be troublesome at times. But despite these minor blemishes, when it comes to having fun under the sun or a debaucherous delight by night, you can't beat...