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RESTAURANT IN THE AIR

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I would say it's good if not...see the food 

[Polly]

  They remind me of baby food - only a baby would eat it

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LANZHOU -- A group of petitioners attacked local government buildings early Monday morning in northwest China's Gansu Province.

 Huang Huaming, an official with the Longnan city government, said that the petitioners attacked the compound of local government buildings, and smashed windows and cars.

 
The petitioners left the site early Tuesday morning.

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Ticket prices are likely to be more expensive than the current indirect route, and travel time longer than first anticipated.

 

The United Daily News reported that China Airlines, Taiwan's leading carrier, had set its flight schedule, and on Tuesday began to take bookings for flights operating between Dec 15 and the end of the year. The report quoted China Airlines as saying its route from Taoyuan International Airport to Shanghai will take 105 minutes, instead of 82 minutes as earlier anticipated.

 Ticket prices have not been lowered, except for a discount of less than 300 yuan ($44) for bulk bookings.

 

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(From L to R) Mike Leavitt, US Health and Human Services Secretary, Shao Mingli, head of the State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA), Andrew von Eschenbach, FDA Commissioner and the US Ambassador to China Clark T. Randt Jr. cut the ribbon at the opening ceremony of the FDA Beijing office, November 19, 2008. The US FDA will open three offices in Beijing , Guangzhou and Shanghai this week to help ensure export safety while China is also preparing to station offices in the US. [Asianewsphoto]

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Job-seekers visit booths of companies at a job fair held for graduates in Nanjing, Jiangsu province in East China, November 20, 2008. Stabilizing employment is the top priority for China, Minister of Human Resources and Social Security Yin Weimin said on Thursday as he revealed a rise in jobless workers triggered by a weakened export sector amid the global economic downturn. [CFP]



College students crowd a job fair in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu province, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008. Chinese officials warned Thursday that the country faces a "grim" employment outlook as the economy begins to slow. (AP Photo)

 

[Drive By]

those pics are good advertisements for population control.

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LONGNAN, Gansu Province, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- Police arrested 30people involved in a violent protest in northwest China's Gansu Province, a local official said at a press conference here on Thursday.

ar wreckages being burned down by outlaws in the courtyard of Longnan City Committee.
 

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OTTAWA (Reuters) – Obese people have the right to two seats for the price of one on flights within Canada, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled on Thursday.

 
The high court declined to hear an appeal by Canadian airlines of a decision by the Canadian Transportation Agency that people who are "functionally disabled by obesity" deserve to have two seats for one fare.

 

The airlines had lost an appeal at the Federal Court of Appeal in May and had sought to launch a fresh appeal at the Supreme Court. The court's decision not to hear a new appeal means the one-person-one-fare policy stands.

 
The appeal had been launched by Air Canada, Air Canada Jazz and WestJet.

 

[Drive By]

fat people have two roles in life. english teachers and on the frontline in the war. i think mao was right in not letting any fatties on the long march. what would happen if you took your shoes off for a rest and the big fella next to you ate them. pure chaos. this is also clear in the fact that mao never mentioned mcdonalds or kfc. come to think of it neither did zhang zhemin in the four moderns still the greatest book i have ever read. 

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BEIJING, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- Vagrants and beggars in Beijing will be given accommodation and meals as the winter temperature drops to minus degree, according to the municipal relief administration center.

 
The center announced that as of Thursday evening, staff in the city's 18 relief stations will seek out vagrants and beggars. Each station is to reinforce street patrols, check the identities of vagrants and beggars, and provide them with beds and meals. The centers will provide tickets home once identities are confirmed.

 beijing has helped about 57,000 vagrants and beggars since 2003,when China introduced a policy that replaced the "custody and repatriation" system.

 
"Custody and repatriation" was an administrative procedure, established in 1982, under which the police could detain people who lacked a residence permit or temporary living permit and return them to their place of legal registration.

 

[The Smoking Man]

So ... how does "The centers will provide tickets home once identities are confirmed" differ with "police could detain people who lacked a residence permit or temporary living permit and return them to their place of legal registration" other than to give the power to eject people from Beijing to more people? It seems that it was only the police that had the power before. Now the staff of these centres have the power too.

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Undated file photo shows the world's largest color LED display integrated into a glass curtain wall with solar technology by China's solar powerhouse Suntech at the Xicui Entertainment Complex in Beijing. The GreenPix Zero Energy Media Wall harvests solar energy by day and uses it to illuminate the screen after dark. The Chinese Academy of Sciences has launched an initiative to boost solar energy technology development in a bid to turn it into a major energy source by 2050. [treehugger.com]

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Customers sit inside the A380 In-flight Kitchen, a restaurant named after the giant Airbus airliner, in Taipei January 22, 2009. Imagine a flight without security checks, turbulence or even ticketing. More importantly, there's more than just fish or chicken for dinner. An entrepreneur in Taipei has run exactly this service since November, packing in the passengers, as a restaurant that looks and almost functions like an airliner but sells a full menu's worth of high-end Western food, sometimes in plastic trays.[Agencies]



A waitress dressed as a flight attendant serves customers inside the A380 In-flight Kitchen, a restaurant named after the giant Airbus airliner, in Taipei January 22, 2009. Imagine a flight without security checks, turbulence or even ticketing. More importantly, there's more than just fish or chicken for dinner. An entrepreneur in Taipei has run exactly this service since November, packing in the passengers, as a restaurant that looks and almost functions like an airliner but sells a full menu's worth of high-end Western food, sometimes in plastic trays.[Agencies]











Wow , the consumers must be so happy to skip an expensive planeticket while they can enjoy the same service on the plane