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...truly adventurous eater are the humble and succulent street snacks sold day and night in markets like those off Dongda Street in Xi'an. Here one can choose between the round, steamed, pleated dumplings known as jiaozi (or, in the larger size, baozi) that are filled with pork and aromatic hot broth, or the juicy, half-fried, half-steamed, pork- stuffed crescents called guotie. Breakfast purchased on Shanghai street corners can be the big snowy puffs of yeast buns filled with sweet red-bean paste. All day long there are noodles made of rice, wheat or mung beans, served...
...better than a Western-style choice, judging by the sorry fare offered at places such as the Golden Flower Hotel in Xi'an, the Jinjiang Guest House in Chengdu and the somewhat macabre copy of the Parisian Maxim's in Peking. Even Chinese breakfasts of rice porridge, pickles, pork and dumplings surpass their Western counterparts, although there were excellent room-service breakfasts at the Jinling Hotel in Nanjing and the luxurious White Swan Hotel in Canton...
...Andrew Jackson in 1830, and he had enough political clout to make his veto of the Maysville Road Bill stick. The graveled National Road that aroused Old Hickory's ire has, of course, evolved into today's 44,000-mile Interstate Highway System. But the 19th century conflict between pork barrel and public purse endures as a staple of American democracy, often pitting a fiscally conscious President against a Congress determined to deliver better transportation to the voters who elected...
...full force of the presidency into his search for that elusive final vote. In fact, as jarring as the defeat was, it could end up strengthening the President: the personal energy he put into defeating the bill reinforced his image as a warrior against Congress's profligate pork-barrel ways, and it is likely to quiet fears that he is detached, out of touch and content to serve out the last 21 months of his presidency as a ceremonial caretaker...
...boon rather than a boondoggle. Democratic Congressman William Lipinski is the man behind the $3 million Chicago parking lots, which are designed to serve a rapid-transit line that will not be completed until 1992. "The lots tie directly with the mass-transit line," Lipinski says. "There's no pork here...