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...threads his taxicab every day through the epic traffic jams in and around Shanghai, jabbering on his cell phone and muttering under his breath, Yang Jinyu seems an unlikely real estate mogul. But when the government asked him to move out of his central Shanghai home so that the land it was on could be sold for redevelopment, he took the compensation payment and bought an apartment on Shanghai's outskirts. Eight years later, after cleverly parlaying that first asset, the cabbie owns three apartments in the city and has his eyes on something bigger: a lovely five-bedroom, riverfront...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Property: Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble | 3/22/2010 | See Source »

...spookiest hours of Halloween night may be a little less scary this year, thanks to a program that will offer free taxicab rides around Cambridge...

Author: By Pooja Venkatraman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Program Offers Free Cab Rides on Halloween | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

...said, that he found "very ungentlemanly." Retorted Hunt: "I think it very uncivilized to invade British territory. You are here illegally." Donning his ceremonial uniform and plumed hat, Hunt was then chauffeured to the Port Stanley airport in his official limousine (the same Austin model used as a London taxicab), with a small Union Jack fluttering defiantly from the hood. Said Hunt in London: "I am still Governor. We must do what we can to go to the rescue of the Falkland Islanders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Face-Off on the High Seas | 2/20/2008 | See Source »

...While Tucker keeps the comedy percolating, Chan mans the action scenes: the chase in L.A. of his old friend-nemesis Kenji; a bout of farcical fisticuffs with a, like, 9-ft.-tall martial artist; a wild ride in the taxicab; a decent hand-to-hand skirmish with a female ninja in a Paris casino; a swordfight with Kenji; and a two-against-the-world battle at the top of the Eiffel Tower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jackie Chan Back in Action in Rush Hour 3 | 8/9/2007 | See Source »

...sermons. The evening news reports were refreshingly short. No one was killed in Ur city in the northern section of the capital when a homemade bomb exploded as worshipers were leaving Friday prayers. Two were injured in al-Dora, a neighborhood on a bend in the Tigris, when a taxicab exploded. The residents of al-Amel hid in their houses during a firefight between an armed gang and the Iraqi army as U.S. Apache attack helicopters provided cover overhead. Meanwhile, the Shaab market echoed with the sound of workmen shoveling glass and rubble onto flatbed trucks, cleaning up from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not Too Bad a Day in Baghdad | 3/30/2007 | See Source »

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