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...changed too, in size, tone and demographic. On New Year's Eve 40 years ago, in my Columbia U. days, I came out of a 42nd Street movie theater, noticed that it was a few minutes after midnight and was able to call my mother on a pay phone just around the corner from the revelers, who probably numbered in the low hundred-thousands. These days you'd need to be the mayor, or Christina Aguilera (who sang last night), to be in that spot. The crosstown streets are barricaded from late afternoon, and to get a good spot...
...functioning normally, some businesses in Japan complained of being unable to reach clients in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Rie Kuzumoto, who works at a publishing company, needed to make last-minute changes in an order placed with a Hong Kong supplier but could not get through by email or phone. "I feel very uneasy," Kuzumoto says...
...cold. Other observers believe something more shadowy than a pure grab for more money is in the works: a reincorporation of Belarus into a reconfigured Russian Federation. "It does feel like war is about to break out within days," says journalist and human rights activist Irina Khalip in a phone call from the Belarus capital of Minsk. "People are stockpiling fuel and warm clothes...
...Baozhong, the farmer whose arm was crippled by a previous beating, told me of Liang's suicide, I heard someone screaming at him in the background. It was his wife, and she was telling him to get off the phone. Talking to me would only bring more trouble. Already, Yu had been jailed once and not been given the land usually apportioned to Qixia families when they have a child. Money was tight. But Yu kept talking. "I tell you, English-language journalist," he said, "I cannot accept what they have done to us. Even if if takes 10 years...
...mushrooms and herbs with his friends, sharing his love for nature. He also got a job as a pizza delivery boy, and his boss says he’s so talented that he does only "special deliveries." This job is so special that Matthew needs his own beeper and phone line, and people call from all over town at all hours of the night asking for his special pizzas. He really has turned into quite the little entrepreneur, earning a tidy sum and even buying his own convertible. John has been particularly interested in Matthew’s little business...