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...cannot guess how the road will transform the Loba’s lives in infinite positive and negative ways. I am frightened that the road may destroy what makes the area incomparable to any other. But I am selfishly happy to have seen the windswept canyons, the brilliant red Buddhist temples, the fields of impossible green in the midst of barren browns, and the beautiful, friendly faces of the Loba before a road transforms them into a mere glimpse captured through the window of a car along a highway...
...China. Yang and other family members insist that then 21-year-old Zhu Yanqiang couldn't even get to the toilet without help, much less sneak out to join in the brutal robbery-murder that took place some 40 km from the family's two-room farmhouse in the windswept hills outside the town of Chengde. Zhu, who sold vegetables in a nearby market, had gotten into a fight the previous day with other vendors while jostling for a prime spot; he was beaten repeatedly with an iron bar. "He was badly injured and the doctor gave him medicines...
...address as many people as possible during a recent week-long stay. Hours before the Flowers Bay talk, which had been canceled because the organizers could not find a proper venue, he found Mrs. Warner, a wizened elderly resident, who offered up her front lawn - a patch of windswept dirt - for the event. Fried managed to borrow several plastic chairs from the Sea Breeze Bar across the street. A single lightbulb hooked onto a long electrical cord and suspended from an old wooden ladder was rigged up as a spotlight as Fried addressed a small group of local residents...
...mostly. The 1960s civil rights movement had swept away official racism in the U.S., along with the last anti-miscegenation laws. But word had evidently not yet reached the Chais' corner of South Dakota-a bleak, windswept realm of farming and ranching, where rising interest rates and falling prices for agricultural goods were pushing many of their neighbors toward bankruptcy. "My father didn't realize that he was moving his family into a region whose economic base was, in fact, being devastated," says Chai. That economic anxiety, plus growing unrest among Native Americans on nearby Indian reservations, only deepened...
...these critics, I haven’t much to offer—again, Carraba’s lyrics are often incomprehensible, the music that accompanies his shrieks isn’t ground-breaking, and the album art shows Dashboard members gazing in odd directions on a windswept beach...