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...Staff writer Risheng Xu may be reached at xu4@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Risheng Xu can be reached at xu4@fas.harvard.edu...
...Plastics City"?is under siege. According to local merchants, the price of a ton of ABS (acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene), a common ingredient in hard-plastic products, has virtually doubled since March. "The prices for raw materials have gotten so high that no one is making a profit," says Mrs. Xu, who runs a small raw-materials factory with her husband. Xu, who declined to give her full name, says many of the factories she supplies have gone bankrupt this summer. Xu Songquan (no relation), who has been in the plastic-molding business since 1977, explains that factory owners who negotiated...
...Poor Chinese farmers don't tend to disagree with government officials putting on a hard sell, so Xu's parents relented, allowing her to be sent to a district-level sports school, where she cried for days at the prospect of constantly lifting heavy weights. Xu transferred to Weilun last year, where she now trains six hours a day, six days a week. She sees her parents once a year. During the school year, Xu also attends a couple of hours of class a day, but she admits she's often too tired to pay attention during the evening academic...
...Beijing 2008, the country is concentrating on canoeing/kayaking, with its 48 Olympic medals, and baseball, even though China has never before fielded an Olympic baseball squad and hasn't qualified in the sport for this year's Games. The need to create insta-stars was what brought Xu Damin, a 16-year-old from China's northwestern Xinjiang province, to the Weilun school's Taekwondo program. "I'd never heard of Taekwondo before entering sports school," he says. "But now my whole life is dedicated to this sport." Dripping with sweat, he announces that he, like so many other sports...