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...Yiwu's main intersection, the Vivi Bright Wedding Photo Studio has installed fake evergreens, mounds of Styrofoam pellets masquerading as snow, and a white picket fence outside its storefront. "People want their wedding pictures in front of a Christmas tree because Christmas is modern," explains Hu Hanbang, the studio's manager. Hu plans to dress as St. Nick on Christmas Eve and give away picture frames in red envelopes of the sort that Chinese distribute over Lunar New Year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Santa's New Elves | 12/18/2004 | See Source »

...into the splintery table, symbolically asking Guey to spell “defeat.” Perhaps the spelling bee divined this outcome. “My winning word was vivisepulture,” Guey explains. “I studied, like, roots and stuff of different words. Vivi means alive and sepulture means buried. It means buried alive...

Author: By William L. Adams, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mental Champs Get Physical | 10/10/2002 | See Source »

...after 22 months of false leads and dashed hopes, it was as simple and dramatic as this: Bipin Shah, 59, got a call from one of his private eyes in Europe. Sarah Lynn, 9, and Genevieve ("Vivi") Marie, 7, had been found living in Lucerne, Switzerland, with their mother, Ellen Dever, 43, under assumed names...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: He Found His Girls | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

Sarah was born in 1989, with her father's round face and her mother's light features. "We immersed ourselves in the child," Shah says. Two years later, Genevieve--Vivi--arrived, with her mother's long face and her father's dark features. The girls' finger paintings decorated the kitchen. Each had her own bedroom. Out back, they shared a jungle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hide And Seek | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

...women's side, senior Vivi Fuchs led the Crimson to its 9-7 victory. After four bouts and four wins with the foil. Fuchs upped her individual season record...

Author: By Jon Askin, | Title: Harvard Men Fence-In Brandeis, 19-8 | 12/7/1983 | See Source »

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