Word: mile
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since bureaucratic sadism is familiar to everyone everywhere, I was somewhat prepared for the denial of a simple request during the 600-mile, 18-hour train trip to Beijing. But I was not prepared for the sheer delight visible on the conductor's face when she said, "Meiyou, the rule does not permit turning on the lights before 7 p.m. and it's only 6:30. You will just have to wait 30 minutes...
...from the Lun Feng factory, on the main road to Guangzhou, is an example of how economic freedom can energize a population. Shops full of sofas, chairs and beds stretch as far as the eye can see. "Furniture Mile" began several years ago when a few local farmers decided that after meeting their government-mandated crop quotas, they would rather augment their income by making furniture than by growing more vegetables. Soon, farmers throughout the area followed suit. Today anyone with wheels stops to load as much furniture as he can carry, then resells his wares later in whatever market...
...trip was part of a five-week, 4,000-mile journey across China by special correspondent Kramer for this week's cover story. His reflections accompany our 27-page gallery of photographs from the new book A Day in the Life of China. Says Kramer: "I saw a great people whose lives could be so much better if their political system was less oppressive...
...strength from the moist tropical air, puffing itself up into a fearsome 150-m.p.h. hurricane. At week's end Hurricane Hugo, its fury spent, whimpered out in rainfall over southern Canada. Between its gentle birth and welcome demise, Hugo carved an awesome arc of destruction in a 2,300-mile sweep from the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe to the Carolinas...
...slowing in the slightest, Hugo fell on Montserrat, an eleven-mile-wide British island of 12,000 residents. Tin roofs were ripped off houses and nearly every building sustained serious damage, leaving few inhabitants with either shelter or fresh water. The wooded mountains that had inspired visitors to call Montserrat the Emerald Isle turned brown as most of the green trees lost their tops. "It was paradise here," said Governor Christopher Turner, who placed the damage at $100 million. "Now we're back to the kerosene age and washing in the river." Ten residents died...