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...happy circumstance that the government celebrated as a political victory. "Study Daqing!" chanted legions of Red Guards during the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution, when the country's best-known "model worker" was Wang Jinxi, who was said to have plunged into a vat of Daqing oil during a freezing winter and stirred it with his body so it would continue flowing. Oil and gas discoveries in the South China Sea and Bohai Gulf, where drilling began in 1979, made China seem all the more invulnerable to oil shocks, and the country remained an oil exporter until 1993. Today, however, output...
...says Elena D. Bassett ’07 about the later time change. Susan “Scottie” S. Thompson, ’05, former publicity manager of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, agrees. “Do I miss freezing my hands off in the middle of winter? No,” she says, adding, “It’s kind of absurd when it’s so cold the tape doesn’t stick.” Karlin has a different take, citing the campus’ “general feeling...
...dancer Loren Galler-Rabinowitz doesn’t play hockey, but she always skates with a goal. The 18-year-old ice dancer was admitted to Harvard last spring, but deferred for two years to focus on the 2006 Winter Olympics—she already won a bronze medal with partner David Mitchell at the 2004 Nationals...
...guide asked if there were any questions. Naturally, there was only one. Where, our group wondered, did the typical hutong resident go to the bathroom? "In the latrine," said the lady of the house. "Outside." As we contemplated what this must mean in the depths of a northern Chinese winter, life in the hutongs suddenly seemed far less folksy and cute...
...just one damn thing after another, shouldn't the future be more of the same? But over and over again, even our most highly educated guesses go disastrously wrong. (Here's Coco Chanel on the miniskirt, in 1966: "It's a bad joke that won't last. Not with winter coming...