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...Revolution" [June 27] offered a unique perspective on my country's political and social changes. "Small World, Big Stakes" made the point that instead of politicians and scholars, the most important figures for China's future and its relationship with the U.S. are people like the textile worker you highlighted, Liu Li. Today, ordinary people like Liu do not fear uncertainty or economic and social instability. These very uncertainties have created opportunities for China's Lius to escape from their humble social and economic background and realize their hopes. There is a degree of freedom of speech here today...
...turned up some pottery, the driver thought one of the shards pretty and took it home, where he showed his new curio to a friend. Thankfully for anyone interested in learning when and how the South Pacific was first settled, that friend happened not only to be a field worker for Vanuatu's Cultural Centre, but a recent graduate of an archaeological training course. As soon as he saw the pottery, he knew what...
...fact, in the southern coastal province of Guangdong, the nouveaux riches are old news. Villages around the town of Kaiping are still filled with their architectural legacy, dating from the late 19th and early 20th centuries when large numbers of Guangdong peasants joined the great migration of Chinese workers abroad. Many went to North America or Australia as laborers. Others established small businesses and came back relatively prosperous. To display their new wealth - and protect it from floods and roving bandits common at the time - they built spectacular Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise...
...trying to establish the identity of the victims - which is why Bhatti has been telling police about the birthmark under Ciaccia's left eye. Friends and relatives are spreading such details in hopes that some aspect will help identify the missing: Karolina Gluck, a 29-year-old administrative worker from Poland, has a pierced belly button and carries a London 2012 Olympics key ring; health-care analyst James Mayes, 28, who was identified late last week, had hazel eyes and short brown curly hair. As recovery crews and police investigators continue their work, forensic experts in surgical scrub suits...
...employment, the sons and daughters of baby boomers have increasingly resorted to taking part-time or temporary jobs without high pay or much chance of job development. (Coined by a job-placement magazine, "freeter" is a combination of the English word free and the German word Arbeiter that means worker.) Initially romanticized for their nonconformist attitudes when the trend was first spotted in the 1980s, the number of freeters has since grown to some 4 million, or about 20% of the country's 15- to 34-year-olds, according to the UFJ Institute, a Tokyo-based think tank. Now they...