Word: yuan
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...noon on Saturday our local gourmand comes around to guide us to lunch. Xiao Gugu ushers us into an inconspicuous little dive, explaining that when Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian wants to treat foreign dignitaries to authentic local dishes, he brings them to this charming place?the Lian Hsin Yuan Vegetarian Restaurant on Hsinsheng North Road; call (886-2) 2560-1950 for reservations. Xiao Gugu orders a flurry of dishes. First out is xueyu (snow jade) doufu, a two-tone brick of bean curd, green on top, white on the bottom. The top "jade" layer gets its color from...
...home. A Gallup poll earned top headlines after finding 95% support for the bid among Beijing residents. But there's another explanation for such favorable results: heavy-handed propaganda. A similar poll showing 87% support outside Beijing went unreported because "it was deemed too low," says Victor Yuan of Horizon Research, which conducted the study. Ordinary Chinese will never read a quote saying the Games "will bring Beijing's corruption to the world's attention," as Zhao Hong, a teacher of Marxist philosophy in the distant city of Kunming, told Time. And they don't know that a member...
...landing gear won't lower: the plot develops from this seemingly minor detail. The crew wrestles with the mechanism for 10 minutes before the plane is ordered to turn back with only two hours' worth of fuel and 137 passengers on board. On the ground in Beijing, controller Liu Yuan (You Yong) arrives, chain-smokes, swigs coffee and looks suitably tormented. Prodded by Liu, the pilot tries multiple maneuvers, including a touch-and-go landing to bounce the apparatus down, and a manual release of the landing gear by a co-pilot who climbs down onto the wheels. An hour...
...sight are a TV or phone, and hot water probably isn’t an issue, as they also lack a working bathtub. When it’s shower time, they pack their towels and deodorant into tote bags and head out to the public bathhouse for three yuan a visit. Alice’s reward for standing in front of a classroom about nine hours each week and sitting probably twice as long in an office is less than 1500 yuan per month...
Ironically, then, to state it mildly, because of my 4000-yuan monthly salary, Alice might one day earn closer to it than she does now; because of the relatively luxurious conditions in which I dwell, Alice might one day experience better than she currently does. Until then, the disparities that make me wonder why she doesn’t hate me are part of, and perhaps the price of, development...