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HARRY Parker's performance provoked screams from the audience because he didn't open his parachute until he had dropped past the mid-way point of the Jinmao Tower.
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- Down-to-earth attitudes
HARRY Parker's performance provoked screams from the audience because he didn't open his parachute until he had dropped past the mid-way point of the Jinmao Tower.
- China's 1st BASE jumps
A TEAM of 16 international parachutists successfully completed the first mass jump from the Chinese mainland's highest building, the Jinmao Tower, on October 5.
- Moving experiences
HUANG Shuliang, of the Shanghai Academy of Social Science has some doubts about the effectiveness of the newly organized group of 152 volunteer lawyers providing legal advice to residents who are having problems over their forced relocation.
- Relocation dislocation
RELOCATION is once again in the spotlight after two people, who were dissatisfied with their relocation offers, set themselves on fire in the past two months.
- Soaring complaints
THE number of written complaints to the central government about relocation has risen sharply in the past two years, according to the China Economic Times, a journal of the Development Research Centre of the State Council.
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- 'Dumb' leaders should be treasured
To cite one recent "feminist" response to the final-stage smear campaign against Arnold Schwarzenegger: "The difference is that Clinton was so brilliant ... If Arnold was a brilliant pol[itician] and had this thing about inappropriate behaviour, we'd figure a way of getting around it."
- Modern forms of torture
If you pick up a book about torture in the Middle Ages or earlier times, you will discover to your dismay that the running or walking machines in modern gyms are nothing more than avant-garde torture devices.
- The plight of the multitudes
During the Golden Holiday period I had, as visitors, several relatives from my native town in rural northern Jiangsu Province. As I hadn't been to my native place for some time, the information they provided familiarized me with the plight of Chinese peasants.
- I'm losing my Britishness
I've now been in Shanghai for almost seven weeks and I can feel my Britishness starting to wear off. The years of education that made me stand on the right side of the escalator on the way out of the Metro have been forgotten. I have just realized I can stand any side I like and no-one cares.
- Getting the business in Beijing
Not so many years ago, income from visa fees collected by Chinese embassies around the world, was an important source of foreign currency for the new Chinese nation.
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- Citizen Cane
IT is not uncommon for angry Chinese parents to give their children a thrashing on the buttocks as a punishment for mischief.
- The first ring-road in Shanghai
READERS will be quite familiar with the history of the foreign "concession" areas in Shanghai as they have been frequently mentioned in past issues.
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