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...embassy, the biggest in the world. To most visiting American dignitaries, the placid, palm-lined streets of the Green Zone are the only glimpse of Iraq they see; to Iraqis, it might as well be another continent. "Living here is like living in Europe," says Haider Hassan, a store clerk at the $280-a-night al-Rasheed Hotel inside the Green Zone. "You miss nothing, starting with electricity, power, water and security. Outside the gates is hell...
That's why the Baghdad Country Club is digging in. If the U.S. military fails to pacify Baghdad and disengagement from Iraq's problems becomes the unspoken U.S. policy, the BCC may just become the last refuge in Iraq. The liquor store, called the Winery, is doing a booming business. In preparation for the holy month of Ramadan, when alcohol is particularly hard to get in Iraq, the club stockpiled so many cases of beer and wine on its roof that it began to bow inward. They managed to sell it all. The club also sells merchandise such as polo...
...Just down the street, at 38 Guozijian, is the family-run Shengtangxuan, tel: (86-10) 8404 7179. This dusty, cramped store has a small collection of minute, elaborate cloth and paper kites, and Beijing opera masks. But its prime claim to fame is Manchurian clay toys. The Tang family has five generations of toy making behind it, and members still faithfully use the same methods as their Manchu ancestors. Among the collectibles are wobbly headed lions (complete with fluffy manes) and figurines of a rabbit god worshiped in Beijing since the Ming dynasty. The little ones will adore them...
...master tailor, Liang, 59, was due to retire until he saw the photograph. It inspired him to hold onto his needle and thread, and delve into the old craft of making toys from spare cuts of fabric. Today, he sells the fruits of his labors from a cubbyhole-sized store just across from the Confucius Temple in Beijing's historic Dongcheng district...
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