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...team spent its first 10 days abroad in Shen Zhen, a commercial center on China’s southern coast, before performing in Hong Kong, Xian and finally Beijing...

Author: By Emily S. High, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Strictly Ballroom Across the Pacific | 1/10/2003 | See Source »

...live in Iran itself. The move is partly a response to Israel radio's broadcasts in Farsi. CHINA Freak Floods At least 205 people died and hundreds are missing in floods that struck northern China. In the worst-affected area, a normally arid region south of the city of Xian, nearly a meter of rain fell in just two days. Torrential rains triggered landslides and caused rivers to overflow their banks. More than 3.6 million hectares of farmland have been inundated in the flooding. NEW ZEALAND Snap Election Prime Minister Helen Clark called an election for 27 July, two months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 6/16/2002 | See Source »

...seeing them in your bluebook, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically unconcerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of St. Augustine flattened by a phrase or reading about the “Xian myth...

Author: By An ANONYMOUS Grader, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Grader's Reply | 5/15/2002 | See Source »

...seeing them in your bluebook, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically unconcerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of St. Augustine flattened by a phrase or reading about the “Xian myth...

Author: By An ANONYMOUS Grader, | Title: A Grader's Reply | 1/14/2002 | See Source »

...with his skull or flying above ground upside down in a full split, that hardly does him justice. Even when he holds still (which isn't often), the 37-year-old Shaolin Temple fighting monk manages to look more mythical than mortal. He's got the face of a Xian terra-cotta warrior?acrobatically piked eyebrows, rampart-like cheekbones?and the kind of body that helps explain why kung fu is called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kicking the Habit | 11/19/2001 | See Source »

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