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...Yu Ping Chan ’04, a resident of Leverett House enjoying her extra functional jack, said she was surprised to learn that PaeTec was not involved...
...gaps left by All-Americans Bonney and Doyle call for the creation of new crews, a task aided by the return of two All-American skippers—captain Clay Bischoff and junior Cardwell Potts—and captain Michelle Yu, an All-American crew...
...locals have to cooperate as Hu did. Some refuse. They pocket the government's money, but leave the pumps running and continue planting in the flood plain. When the government breaches a dike, villagers sometimes repair it so they can continue sowing. "These lands are only half restored," says Yu Xiubo of the Beijing-based Chinese Academy of Sciences. But the program is still new. "It takes time," says Jim Harkness, China director for WWF, "for people to lose their nervousness at giving up rice farming." China may have helped create the flood problem that plagues its central region each...
...peasants are stealing your artwork!" I yelled to Yu Xiao Yu. I had just run halfway across a tiny, muddy island on the outskirts of Nanjing, dodging several avant-garde sculptures and art installations along the way."Really?" asked the artist, as his round face broke into a smile. "That's great!" A group of fellow Nanjing artists laughed and pointed at the leather-faced farmer in a worn Mao jacket who, along with his wife and son, was cheerfully scooping armfuls of seaweed from Yu's installation: a giant ditch in the shape of a gingerbread man, which...
That night, I visited the Double Nine Gallery, which hosts monthly exhibits of contemporary artwork, to meet up with my seaweed-artist friend, Yu. "I am so happy that the peasants took my seaweed," he said. "It adds the final step to the evolution of life symbolized in that artwork. What more could an artist wish for but that even a farmer gains something new from his work?" He paused, and for a moment I wondered if Yu really imagined the farmer was sitting up thinking about primordial soup as symbolized in installation art. But Yu, like many...