Word: xu
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...quantities of incense. They pray that the sea won't turn on them, that their fishermen husbands won't be drowned, that their houses won't be wrecked by typhoons, that their lives will simply turn out well. "I've got four kids, and three are in college," says Xu Fenshan, a thickly built 68-year-old matron, offering evidence that her faith has earned rewards...
...staffed with Chinese contract laborers. Last year, Madagascar doled out 600 visas to Chinese workers who construct everything from new roads to button-down shirts. Chinese factory owners prefer to ship in their own countrymen because, as one boss put it: "They work harder for less money." Miss Xu hails from Nanjing, the river port from which Zheng He launched his fleet. She signed up for a three-year stint in Madagascar without knowing a thing about the Indian Ocean island. After toiling in a sweater factory for the full three years, she doesn't know much more...
According to the Post, the Chinese government also conducted a review of Xu’s practices. Reportedly, this review found that Xu made no violations of Chinese regulations...
...research, which was chiefly sponsored by Harvard and Cambridge-based Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Xu took blood samples from thousands of poor peasants and farmers in Anhui province of rural central China...
...Post article alleges that Xu did not inform the donors of his purpose in taking the blood—a violation of the regulations of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)—and that he did not provide medical treatment that he had promised in exchange for the donations...