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THOSE comfortable days will be over soon, sighed Richard Sun with a little excitement. He will resume his studies at Shanghai International Studies University (SISU) this September as a graduate student after experiencing two years of jobless life.
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- No rush to work
THOSE comfortable days will be over soon, sighed Richard Sun with a little excitement. He will resume his studies at Shanghai International Studies University (SISU) this September as a graduate student after experiencing two years of jobless life.
- Spontaneous generation
WITH tattoos on his arms, long dyed hair and a Che Guevara T-shirt, Song Jiahe stands out in the crowds on Huaihai Lu ¡ª and that¡¯s what he likes. He wants to be different from others, or what he calls ¡°linglei¡±.
- Economic sickness
WHATEVER else you get, don¡¯t get sick. The meaning is self-evident, especially in China, where complaints of exorbitant medical expenses have grown in recent years.
- Medical burden
Only half of China¡¯s farmers can afford medical care, according to Chinese Vice Minister of Health Zhu Qingsheng.
- Reputations in danger
UPON hearing that some Haagen-Dazs ice cream was processed in an ordinary apartment without a sanitation permit in Shenzhen, Xu Guoying at first thought, ¡°It can¡¯t be true¡±. Then she became furious.
- Company apologizes for substandard operation
HAAGEN-DAZS, a major ice cream brand of General Mills, has apologized to consumers for processing ice cream cakes in a workshop without a sanitation permit, the Beijing News reported on June 19.
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- Budget deadlock deepens crisis
LONDON ?British Prime Minister Tony Blair, acknowledging that London¡¯s rebate from EU coffers is an anomaly that ¡°has to go? said on June 21 he believed he could get a deal on the European Union budget in the next six months.
- Indian power grows in poor, unstable Bolivia
LA PAZ ?Bolivia¡¯s Indian movement is feeling powerful after forcing two presidents out of office in two years, and it says it will topple another if it does not win its ultimate goal ?a new constitution granting Indian communities seats in Congress.
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- An environment that nurtures patriotism
A recent survey I conducted found that if the middle school students in Shanghai were given the chance to choose their own nationalities, quite a number of them would prefer to be Americans or people from other foreign countries. When I later asked a US Consulate-General official about the answers American teenagers might give, he said confidently that none would choose to be non-American.
- Born in 1980s and glad of it
The 1980s, the time we were born, was a time when dreams began to fly while poems began to die. We had our childhood in the 1980s and remember it as a time of unambiguous innocence.
- Press clips
- Mob rule can¡¯t stand
China¡¯s police officers have a tough enough job as it is. We ask them to be on their feet eight to 12 hours a day, hot or cold, and uphold the law.
- Tragedy of a tradition
From my perspective, he has been imprisoned.
- Move the bus
US Judge Childers in his May 12, 2004 decision revoked the parental rights of Anna Mae He¡¯s Chinese immigrant parents. This case has enraged many people in the US due to the way the judge ignored the law and made judgment based on his personal prejudices. However few Chinese are speaking out over the injustice. I can¡¯t help wondering why that is so.
- Voices
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- Off the beaten track
EDWARD Genochio left his home in Exeter, England, in March 2004, with the plan to ride his bike solo all the way to China, a country he had visited a few times in the 1990s and found extremely fascinating.
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- Foreign eyes on Shanghai
THE modern era is always the most amazing part of Shanghai¡¯s history for historians. There has been an abundance of works published analyzing the changes in Shanghai over the past 150 years. But it¡¯s rare for a foreign scholar to dedicate time to the study of the modernization of Shanghai.
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- Plenty to wine about
HIDDEN inside a park along Yan¡¯an Donglu, the ZIN wine bar & grill is mostly known by wine lovers who visit it for its collection of hundreds of wines. It is possible to enjoy several glasses of wine for about 100 yuan (US$12), sitting in the varied corners of the bar with their different styles of decoration, listening to the latest music. In the daytime, however, ZIN is quiet and relatively deserted, because few people know that it also offers lunch meals.
- Vine talk
PETER Gago, chief winemaker for Australia¡¯s most famous winery, Penfolds, recently visited Shanghai to introduce the art of creating great wines. He held a vertical tasting of Penfolds Grange vintages, the winery¡¯s flagship wine, as part of the fifth Food, Wine, Fashion and Jazz Festival at the Portman Ritz-Carlton. Vertical tasting includes wines of the same label from different vintage years between 1998 and 1977.
- Sunlight-filled gym
IT used to be no easy task to find a top grade fitness centre furnished with first class gym facilities in the Putuo District. Since Holiday Inn Vista Shanghai opened its Changshou Lu fitness centre for guests and residents in 2003, life became much easier for demanding people to visit an excellent fitness center.
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