Input: The child only comes home once a week, and sending him to the school in Shenzhen costs several hundred thousand NT dollars per year.

Shenzhen

several hundred thousand NT dollars


Input: The Hong Kong elementary school and the international school are both an hour or two away from Dongguan, and many of the Taiwanese in Dongguan want to be able to see their children every day.

Hong Kong

Dongguan

Dongguan

an hour or two

Taiwanese


Input: This prompted a group of them to establish a private bilingual school called Little Oxford in February 1998.

Little Oxford

February 1998


Input: The school admits children from kindergarten -LRB- age five -RRB- through grade five of elementary school.

five

five


Input: Some of Little Oxford's 200 students -LRB- such as Norman Hsu's child -RRB- used to go to school in Shenzhen, while others have transferred in from the mainland Chinese public school system.

Little Oxford's

Norman Hsu's

Shenzhen

Chinese


Input: Little Oxford is very similar to the Taiwanese school being promoted by the TBAD.

Little Oxford

TBAD

Taiwanese


Input: Most of its teaching materials are very similar to those used in Taiwan's elementary schools, and of the 15 or so teachers there, three are from Taiwan.

Taiwan

Taiwan

three


Input: The big difference is that classes are taught in both Chinese and English because the Taiwanese parents are very interested in seeing that their children learn English well.

Chinese

English

English

Taiwanese


Input: According to Huang Su, executive director of Little Oxford, " A lot of parents keep after me to make sure that the children's education is exactly like the regular system in Taiwan, but I have to remind them that once you've left in Taiwan, you're not regular any longer. "

Huang Su

Little Oxford

Taiwan

Taiwan


Input: According to Huang, making the school a mirror image of those in Taiwan does not necessarily mean that you are running a good school.

Huang

Taiwan


Input: The key is to provide an education that meets the needs of the students.


Input: In addition to Taiwanese teaching materials, she has also incorporated some materials from the mainland and overseas into the curriculum.

Taiwanese


Input: Huang Su, who hails from Beijing, majored in English at university and is keenly interested in education.

Huang Su

Beijing

English


Input: She came to Dongguan after marrying a Taiwanese expat there, and it was the Taiwanese business community that asked her to run a school.

Dongguan

Taiwanese

Taiwanese


Input: Little Oxford now has a very good reputation in the Taiwanese community.

Little Oxford

Taiwanese


Input: In fact, some Taiwanese send their children to Little Oxford from as far away as Zhuhai -LRB- just opposite Macau on the other side of the Pearl River estuary -RRB-.

Taiwanese

Little Oxford

Zhuhai

Macau

Pearl River


Input: Huang has been deeply impressed by the deep concern that Taiwanese parents show for their children's education in the face of difficulties posed by living away from their native Taiwan.

Huang

Taiwanese

Taiwan


Input: One parent, for example, practically begged her to admit his six - year old child, explaining, " He's never had any playmates.

One

six - year


Input: The only people he's ever been with are his nanny and some employees from the plant. "


Input: The Taiwanese kids at Little Oxford come from many different backgrounds.

Taiwanese

Little Oxford


Input: Some speak in a mixture of Chinese and English, while others speak and look just like any mainland Chinese child.

Chinese

English

Chinese


Input: Many of them have transferred in and out of lots of different schools in the United States, Taiwan, and the mainland.

the United States

Taiwan


Input: There is no trace of the world's cares on their faces though; the thing they're most concerned about is studying a little less and playing a little more.


Input: One bespectacled child laments, " School is better in Canada because they don't have to do so much homework.

Canada


Input: There's too much homework in Taiwan and the mainland.

Taiwan


Input: It's no fun. "


Input: An older brother and sister, it turns out, have both lived overseas.


Input: Huang stays in close touch with the Taiwanese parents.

Huang

Taiwanese


Input: Their children enjoy very comfortable homes and seem to have experienced much of the world, but the biggest problem is that " they aren't motivated and don't understand why they should need to study. "


Input: Another problem for the school is the lack of interesting things to do in Dongguan.

Dongguan


Input: Unless teachers are very devoted to education, they are not likely to stay there long.


Input: " It's all the more difficult, " notes Huang frankly, " to hold on to teachers from Taiwan, who can't help but compare their situation here with what they are accustomed to in Taiwan. "

Huang

Taiwan

Taiwan


Input: The Taiwanese school will be faced with the same high turnover rate that has dogged Little Oxford.

Taiwanese

Little Oxford


Input: Dongguan, cradle of scholars

Dongguan


Input: With Little Oxford already in operation, why should the Taiwanese expats wish to establish a separate school for their children?

Little Oxford

Taiwanese


Input: Sylvia Yang points out that Little Oxford is a private school with limited space and teaching staff, and even without the boarding expenses charged in Shenzhen, the tuition at Little Oxford still costs RMB 38,000 -LRB- NT$ 160,000 -RRB- per semester, more than many Taiwanese parents can pay.

Sylvia Yang

Little Oxford

Little Oxford

Shenzhen

RMB 38,000

Taiwanese


Input: Says H. D. Ye, " We would like to get funding from both the Taiwan and mainland authorities to hold tuition down. "

H. D. Ye

Taiwan


Input: Although the cornerstone has already been laid, Ye reports that not enough funds have been raised, nor have all the teachers been hired.

Ye


Input: Although the picture generally looks pretty good, there is still much work to be done.


Input: Expenses for the first few years are expected to reach NT$ 60 million, and only about NT$ 20 million has been raised so far.

the first few years

NT$ 60 million

NT$ 20 million


Input: Ye often speaks in Taiwan on the topic of investing in the mainland, something which he knows a lot about.

Ye

Taiwan


Input: Says Ye jokingly, " I jack up my speaking fees to make extra money for the school. "

Ye


Input: The TBAD is now considering funding the school through an endowment, shares in which would be sold to business firms.

TBAD


Input: The location for the school has already been selected.


Input: It is a large site in the township of Zhongtang.

Zhongtang


Input: The lot is basically empty right now, but the roar of excavators fills the air, and the steel piles have already been driven.


Input: The school grounds are located next to the ancient Beidi Temple, which is shaded by the leaves of a spreading banyan tree.

Beidi Temple


Input: On the temple gate a fading couplet reads: " He who is truly dedicated to his endeavor will become a great master, and shall make of his surroundings a land of delight.


Input: He who has achieved true wisdom shall make of his home a cynosure for great talent, no matter where he may be. "


Input: The locals must have taken this message to heart over the years, because it is said that hometown scholars from Zhongtang often took the top spot in the imperial examinations of centuries past.

Zhongtang


Input: It is very gratifying that a place like Dongguan, with its abundant business opportunities, should also have a scenic spot so rich in scholarly tradition.

Dongguan


Input: It is also exciting to look forward to the founding of a school for the Taiwanese business community.

Taiwanese


Input: Apart from making money, will the expatriates here create a " Taiwanese miracle " on the cultural front as well?

Taiwanese


Input: p. 91


Input: Little Oxford, a bilingual elementary school attended primarily by the children of Taiwanese expatriates, guards its entranceway closely.

Little Oxford

Taiwanese


Input: A school bus takes students to and from school, and all visitors must announce themselves before entering.


Input: p. 92


Input: Little Oxford elementary school teaches classes in both Chinese and English, which is just what the Taiwanese expatriates want for their children.

Little Oxford

Chinese

English

Taiwanese


Input: p. 93


Input: H. D. Ye is a key player in Dongguan's Taiwanese expatriate community.

H. D. Ye

Dongguan

Taiwanese


Input: He has played the lead role in establishing a Taiwanese school in Dongguan.

Taiwanese

Dongguan


Input: The community's ability to wrap up preparations and start construction in just two years is due in large part to Ye's energy and enthusiasm.

two years

Ye


Input: In the summer of 2005, a picture that people have long been looking forward to started emerging with frequency in various major Hong Kong media.

the summer of 2005

Hong Kong


Input: With their unique charm, these well - known cartoon images once again caused Hong Kong to be a focus of worldwide attention.

Hong Kong


Input: The world's fifth Disney park will soon open to the public here.

fifth

Disney


Input: The most important thing about Disney is that it is a global brand.

Disney


Input: Well, for several years, although it was still under construction and, er, not yet open, it can be said that many people have viewed Hong Kong with new respect.

several years

Hong Kong


Input: Then welcome to the official writing ceremony of Hong Kong Disneyland.

Hong Kong Disneyland


Input: The construction of Hong Kong Disneyland began two years ago, in 2003.

Hong Kong Disneyland

two years ago


Input: In January of that year, the Hong Kong government turned over to Disney Corporation 200 hectares of land at the foot of Lantau Island that was obtained following the largest land reclamation project in recent years.

January of that year

recent years

Hong Kong

Disney Corporation

200 hectares

Lantau Island


Input: One.

One


Input: Since then, this area has become a prohibited zone in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong


Input: As its neighbor on Lantau Island, Hong Kong International Airport had to change its flight routes to make this area a no - fly zone.

Lantau Island

Hong Kong International Airport


Input: Mickey Mouse's new home, settling on Chinese land for the first time, has captured worldwide attention.

Chinese

first


Input: There's only one month left before the opening of Hong Kong Disneyland on September 12.

one month

September 12

Hong Kong Disneyland


Input: The subway to Disney has already been constructed.

Disney


Input: At subway stations, passengers will frequently press the station for Disney on ticket machines, trying to purchase tickets to enjoy the park when it first opens.

Disney

first


Input: Meanwhile, the Disney subway station is scheduled to open on the same day as the park.

Disney

the same day


Input: For two years, Disney has constantly maintained its mystery.

two years

Disney


Input: No media have been allowed to enter for photos.


Input: We took a taxi along the path of the highway that heads toward Disney, trying to experience this mysterious park from close by.

Disney


Input: However, before any of the Disney symbols were in sight, the car was stopped by a security guard at the intersection of the road towards Disney.

Disney

Disney


Input: On our way back, the taxi driver gave us an explanation after understanding our intentions.


Input: Er, according to what the security guard said, for the time before everything is officially, opened,, no cars can enter unless they have special permission.


Input: No one can enter otherwise.


Input: Video recording is especially forbidden.


Input: Ah, everything is top secret.


Input: If pictures are taken without permission, %pw that is to say, it will at all times be pursued by legal action, a big hassle.


Input: Although Disney Corporation chose Hong Kong as the venue for the Chinese Disney park, what they are actually most excited about is the mainland China tourist market.

Disney Corporation

Hong Kong

China

Chinese

Disney


Input: Since the implementation of the Individual Visit Scheme between Hong Kong and the mainland, more and more mainland tourists are coming to visit Hong Kong.

the Individual Visit Scheme

Hong Kong

Hong Kong


Input: From the beginning up till now, more than seven million individual tourists, have come to Hong Kong.

more than seven million

Hong Kong


Input: Well, we now, er, believe more will be coming.


Input: At this point, it has been about two years.

about two years


Input: Also, the current number of 34 cities will be increased.


Input: Hong Kong was developed from a fishing harbor one hundred years ago to become today's international metropolis.

Hong Kong

one hundred years ago

today


Input: Here, eastern and western cultures have gathered, and the new and the old coexist.


Input: When in Hong Kong, you can wander among skyscrapers, heartily enjoy shopping sprees in well - known stores and malls for goods from various countries, and taste delicious snacks from all over the world at tea shops or at street stands in Mong Kok.

Hong Kong

Mong Kok


Input: You can go to burn incense and make a vow at the Repulse Bay, where all deities gather.

the Repulse Bay


Input: You can enjoy the most charming sun - filled sandy beaches in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong


Input: You can ascend Victoria Peak to get a panoramic view of Victoria Harbor's beautiful scenery.

Victoria Peak

Victoria Harbor's


Input: Or hop onto a trolley with over a century of history, and feel the city's blend of the old and the modern in slow motion.

over a century


Input: After dark, cruise Victoria Harbor at night to enjoy the enchanting evening view.

Victoria Harbor


Input: Every corner of Hong Kong is filled with fun.

Hong Kong


Input: Meanwhile, as various new items are constantly being added, what other kinds of pleasant surprises will the Hong Kong tourism industry bring us?

Hong Kong


Input: Over the past 28 years, the Ocean Park has basically been a must - see destination for tourists coming to Hong Kong.

the past 28 years

the Ocean Park

Hong Kong


Input: Watch spectacular performances by dolphins and sea lions at the Ocean Theater, and experience passionate screaming and accelerating heart - beat adventures on amusement rides.

the Ocean Theater


Input: Or ride the giant Ferris wheel to get a bird's eye view from high above of the magnificent panorama of Hong Kong Island and the South China Sea.

Hong Kong Island

the South China Sea


Input: These items, which were the pride of the Ocean Park, have made this place the most popular tourist attraction in Hong Kong for some time.

the Ocean Park

Hong Kong


Input: However, since Disney entered Hong Kong, the Ocean Park, sharing the same city as Disney, has felt the pressure of competition.

Disney

the Ocean Park

Disney

Hong Kong


Input: To improve the park's brand, they are planning to invest 5.5 billion in a renovation project starting in 2006.

5.5 billion


Input: It seems that for the future, we have a scheme, a major renovation plan.


Input: That is, the entire park will be divided into seven sections for renovation.


Input: Ah, additional, newer, ah, attractions will be available for tourists.


Input: It seems that those attractions like the North Pole and the Marine Life Center will also be renovated after several years.

the North Pole

the Marine Life Center

several years


Input: Are they going to be different from what they are now?


Input: They will be, in ten years.

ten years


Input: Ah, there will be more animals, and more animal species, different from what there is now.


Input: It looks like we will also bring in whales.


Input: Er, we will implement this plan as soon as it is approved by the government.


Input: Groundbreaking is expected to start next year.

next year


Input: Yes.


Input: The area of Hong Kong is only one thousand - plus square kilometers.

Hong Kong

one thousand - plus square kilometers


Input: The population is dense.


Input: Natural resources are relatively scarce.


Input: However, the clever Hong Kong people will utilize all resources they have created for developing the Hong Kong tourism industry.

Hong Kong

Hong Kong


Input: Among these is the Avenue of Stars.

the Avenue of Stars


Input: Entering Hollywood of the East,

Hollywood

East


Input: here, you can come up close with the stars in your mind.


Input: He is my.


Input: She is my Goddess, ah.


Input: Please stay with us on New World Travel.

New World Travel


Input: Hong Kong has always worn the crown of Hollywood of the East.

Hong Kong

Hollywood

East


Input: Over the past 100 years of film history, Hong Kong cinema has nurtured many internationally renowned directors, actors, and screenwriters.

the past 100 years

Hong Kong


Input: They have shortened the distance between Hong Kong and the world.

Hong Kong


Input: Hong Kong movies have even become a window for the world to see Hong Kong, which have made the image of metropolitan Hong Kong more prominent internationally.

Hong Kong

Hong Kong

Hong Kong


Input: For this reason, in 2004, on the Waterfront Promenade originally constructed for viewing only the scenery of Hong Kong Island and Victoria Harbor, the Hong Kong Tourism Board also constructed the Avenue of Stars, memorializing Hong Kong's 100 - year film history.

100 - year

the Waterfront Promenade

the Avenue of Stars

Hong Kong Island

Victoria Harbor

the Hong Kong Tourism Board

Hong Kong's


Input: Here, tourists can learn about Hong Kong's film history, and can come up close with the stars in their mind.

Hong Kong's


Input: Hong Kong is a busy metropolis.

Hong Kong


Input: Even at dusk, the city's pulse never stops beating.


Input: Across from the Avenue of Stars, a special performance is staged every weekend.

the Avenue of Stars


Input: %pw As our Victoria Harbor is %pw very famous, and, er, our nightscape is already very beautiful, by what means could we enhance the dynamic beauty of our nightscape?

Victoria Harbor


Input: So, one idea was to transform Victoria Harbor into a performance stage.

Victoria Harbor


Input: Er, each key building is like a performer.


Input: It is based on this that music and lights are arranged to reflect each other and perform a unique, er, and fascinating multi-media world - class light show.


Input: Let me now introduce to you all the well - known skyscrapers participating in this large - scale light and music show.


Input: The PLA Hong Kong Garrison Plaza, Bank of China Tower, at 8:00 every Saturday night, HSBC Main Building.

The PLA Hong Kong Garrison Plaza

Bank of China Tower

HSBC Main Building


Input: Their performances will be on schedule.


Input: Center of the East Central.

Center of the East Central.


Input: Ten landmark buildings located on Hong Kong Island reveal themselves one by one, participating in the show in full splendor, presenting a world - class light extravaganza to a musical rhythm.

Ten

one

one

Hong Kong Island


Input: Whenever there is a major event or holiday, fireworks are also added to the light show.


Input: Some, er, cities have consulted with us.


Input: Uh-huh.


Input: Their area of surprise was that those private, er, buildings, that is, the business community, ah, is willing to invest in our overall project.


Input: Yes.


Input: The answer is that this is a reward to the entire society, not an individual building's reward.


Input: Er, of course, after SARS, we felt that all of Hong Kong hopes to be involved, so that the Hong Kong tourism industry will recover, rebound together with other sectors.

Hong Kong

Hong Kong


Input: Hong Kong Wetland Park, which is currently under construction, is also one of the designated new projects of the Hong Kong SAR government for advancing the Hong Kong tourism industry.

Hong Kong Wetland Park

Hong Kong SAR

Hong Kong


Input: This is a park intimately connected with nature, being built by the Hong Kong government for its people who live in a city of reinforced concrete.

Hong Kong


Input: Hong Kong Wetland Park covers an area of 61 hectares, including a 10,000 square meter visitor's center and a 60 hectare outdoor wildlife habitat.

Hong Kong Wetland Park

61 hectares

10,000 square meter

60 hectare


Input: In the indoor exhibition hall, tourists can learn about types of wetlands in various parts of the world, and to gain knowledge about wetlands.


Input: Outdoors, they can also personally experience wetland ecology.


Input: , er, from the highest point we can see two different ecological environments.

two


Input: Ha, on that side are many tall buildings, that is, towns with lots of people living there,


Input: but behind me is our Wetland Park.

Wetland Park


Input: Ha, entirely different.


Input: Quite primitive,


Input: er, a fresh water swamp,


Input: er, the Wetland Park Exploration Center.

the Wetland Park Exploration Center


Input: Lastly, farthest away you can see Putian of Shenzhen.

Putian

Shenzhen


Input: Then,, on the bridge is Hong Kong and outside is Shenzhen.

Hong Kong

Shenzhen


Input: You can come into intimate contact with nature in the outdoor wetland environment.


Input: Children can get to know different animals and plants, and even some crops that are rarely seen in our daily life.


Input: Over here are paddy fields, which is rather unique.


Input: Ha, there are aquatic plants inside.


Input: Ah, the most special is rice, because %pw many Hong Kong children nowadays have never seen what rice looks like.

Hong Kong


Input: Look over there.


Input: They are going to be ripe soon.


Input: The long one over there.


Input: Oh.


Input: Yes.


Input: , with ears, ah.


Input: Where?


Input: Ah, here.


Input: Perhaps there will be an introduction so that children will know the names of the crops when they see them.


Input: , let them get some understanding.


Input: Mai Po Marshes adjacent to Wetland Park is a major wildlife habitat within Asia.

Mai Po Marshes

Asia

Wetland Park


Input: Each year, over 50,000 migratory birds fly over Hong Kong's skyscrapers and choose to roost for winter here.

Hong Kong's


Input: As a result, three different types of aviaries were built in Hong Kong Wetland Park.

three

Hong Kong Wetland Park


Input: These have become the best spots to observe birds.


Input: Among common birds, a rather special one is the black - faced spoonbill.


Input: It is an endangered bird species throughout the world.


Input: Uh-huh.


Input: Ah, there are only about 1,500 in the world.


Input: Wow.


Input: Um, however, each year, about two to three hundred of them come to Hong Kong to spend the winter.

two to three hundred

Hong Kong


Input: Some of them, er, have stayed in Hong Kong Wetland Park.

Hong Kong Wetland Park


Input: Uh-huh.


Input: So, our park's logo is unique, featuring this black - faced spoonbill, which hopefully can draw people's attention.


Input: Uh-huh.


Input: Wetland Park workers are now in the middle of intensive work.

Wetland Park


Input: They will complete the park's entire construction by the beginning of 2006, to be able to participate in the 2006 Discover Hong Kong Year campaign.

the beginning of 2006

Discover Hong Kong Year


Input: Ah, we have established the year 2006 as Discover Hong Kong Year.

the year 2006


Input: Why is that?


Input: Because, as everyone knows, our Disneyland will open in September of this year.

Disneyland

September of this year


Input: In addition, we will have Ngong Ping 360, that is, the cable car, er, to the Giant Buddha.

Ngong Ping 360

the Giant Buddha


Input: They add to what we already have, like the Avenue of Stars, which is also very famous.

the Avenue of Stars


Input: Moreover, er, we are including our software.


Input: Hong Kong's software is very well known.

Hong Kong's


Input: Like what's used in our Symphony of Lights.

Symphony of Lights


Input: We hope to use, er, a variety of hardware and software to package this entire 2006 Discover Hong Kong Year.

Discover Hong Kong Year


Input: Without planning it in advance, they chose to settle here.


Input: A dream that has been anticipated for more than twenty years will soon come true here.

more than twenty years


Input: Because your line connects us with two --

two


Input: In recent years, Hong Kong's tourist attractions have gradually moved from Hong Kong Island to Kowloon and the New Territory.

recent years

Hong Kong's

Kowloon

the New Territory

Hong Kong Island


Input: Two out of the four new attractions participating in the 2006 Discover Hong Kong Year are located on Lantau Island of the New Territory.

Two

four

Discover Hong Kong Year

Lantau Island

the New Territory


Input: For this reason, Lantau Island has become a new Hong Kong tourism popular spot.

Lantau Island

Hong Kong


Input: The earliest to settle here was this world's largest outdoor seated bronze Buddha.

Buddha


Input: In Chinese Buddhism, there are five directions - east, west, south, north, and center - and five Buddhas.

Chinese

Buddhism

five

five

Buddhas


Input: Therefore, Hong Kong's Tian Tan Giant Buddha at the most southern tip of China, together with Lingshan Giant Buddha in the east, Leshan Giant Buddha in the west, Yungang Giant Buddha in the north, and Longmen Giant Buddha in the Central Plains, exist as the representative Buddhas for each of the five directions of China.

Hong Kong's

China

China

Tian Tan Giant Buddha

Lingshan Giant Buddha

Leshan Giant Buddha

Yungang Giant Buddha

Longmen Giant Buddha

Buddhas

the Central Plains

five


Input: As a result, this place has become holy land in the hearts of male and female devotees.


Input: However, to common tourists, more of what this place brings them is wonder and awe.


Input: Since this giant bronze Buddha settled on Lantau Island, the world renowned Hong Kong International Airport at Chek Lap Kok and Disneyland have also been constructed here in succession.

Buddha

Lantau Island

Hong Kong International Airport

Disneyland

Chek Lap Kok


Input: The important status of Lantau Island is increasingly apparent.

Lantau Island


Input: No, it was totally inaccessible in the past.


Input: In the near future, construction will also begin on a cross-sea bridge connecting Hong Kong, Zhuhai, and Macao.

Hong Kong

Zhuhai

Macao


Input: In 1992 --


Input: Couldn't go in summer --


Input: So, after their return, Macao, and Hong Kong, the two special administrative regions, are basically still using ships and helicopters to stay connected.

Macao

Hong Kong

two


Input: It's extremely troublesome to get there via land.


Input: One has to go up to Shenzhen, Dongguan, then go through Panyu, keep going up, to Zhongshan, and certainly go to Zhuhai, then pass through Zhuhai to get to Macao.

Shenzhen

Dongguan

Panyu

Zhongshan

Zhuhai

Zhuhai

Macao


Input: For a Hong Kong person choosing to go there via land, it's extremely inconvenient.

Hong Kong


Input: A full twenty years ago, Hopewell Holdings Group Chairman Wu Ying - sheung, a well - known construction tycoon, boldly made a cross-sea bridge proposal.

A full twenty years ago

Hopewell Holdings Group

Wu Ying - sheung


Input: With this bridge, the distance would be very small, only a little over one kilometer.

a little over one kilometer


Input: However, due to various reasons, bridge construction was put off.


Input: This is what we have seen since 1999.


Input: Anticipated for 20 years, today this dream is finally coming true.

20 years


Input: Well, originally the construction of the new --


Input: With this new Hong Kong - Zhuhai - Macao bridge that basically leads to all three places, Hong Kong, Macao, and Zhuhai, basically, at the start of the bridge, you can get on the separate road to the place you want to go.

Zhuhai

three

Hong Kong

Macao

Zhuhai


Input: Macao is this way, and Zhuhai is this way.

Macao

Zhuhai


Input: From the perspective of either Hong Kong, Macao, or Zhuhai, our concept is a tourism zone.

Hong Kong

Macao

Zhuhai


Input: Er, %pw Zhuhai for sightseeing tours, Macao for entertainment, and we have Disneyland and, other attractions in Hong Kong.

Zhuhai

Macao

Hong Kong

Disneyland


Input: Each place has different attractions of its own.


Input: So, with this bridge, when some old friends, friends from mainland China or from foreign countries come to our place, it seems they can basically enjoy a complete tour with great convenience in several days, before, ha, going home.

China


Input: Once the Zhuhai - Hong Kong - Macao bridge is built, it will no longer be a dream of tourists to enjoy gourmet food in Macao before having fun at Disneyland just an hour later.

Zhuhai

Macao

Macao

Disneyland

an hour later


Input: Promotion of Hong Kong Disneyland has long since begun.

Hong Kong Disneyland


Input: However, even though it has entered the last countdown period before its final opening, this wonderland is still unwilling to take off its mysterious veil.


Input: Ah, currently it has been decided that Disney will open on September 12.

Disney

September 12


Input: There's also what we call soft opening.


Input: Ah, they are now rehearsing.


Input: Ah,, ah, some groups, they are rehearsing their service, well, hoping that they will become used to the service, be familiar with it, when our tourists come in September.

September


Input: Well, I am very confident, that when our tourists come to Disneyland, they will certainly return home very satisfied.

Disneyland


Input: The Wonder Tour will start from Hong Kong.

The Wonder Tour

Hong Kong


Input: This dynamic metropolis never ceases its movement.


Input: It continues to explore; it continues to open new worlds.


Input: Each day, there is always something new for people to experience and to love about this city.


Input: Hong Kong is a world famous shopping paradise.

Hong Kong


Input: What determined the position of Hong Kong as a shopping paradise?

Hong Kong


Input: Is it because of abundant merchandise or high quality at low prices?


Input: Is it a paradise for the rich or the general public?


Input: After all, what are the joyful memories from inside paradise?


Input: We respectfully invite you to watch Hong Kong: a Shopping Paradise in this edition of Across China.

Hong Kong: a Shopping Paradise

Across China


Input: Hello, everyone.


Input: This is the Cross Strait program on CCTV International Channel.

Cross Strait

CCTV International Channel


Input: Welcome to our program.


Input: First let's focus on the main contents of today's program.

First

today


Input: Wang Jin - pyng says that he has decided not to continue serving as KMT vice chairman.

Wang Jin - pyng

KMT


Input: Candidates for the giant pandas to be presented to Taiwan as gifts from the mainland may increase.

Taiwan


Input: Taiwan's military uses Taipei Aerospace Exhibition as an opportunity for pressing arms procurement.

Taiwan

Taipei Aerospace Exhibition


Input: Recently, the 2005 Ningxia Investment and Trade Fair and Ningxia - Taiwan Economic and Trade Cooperation Seminar were held in the city of Yinchuan.

Ningxia Investment and Trade Fair

Ningxia - Taiwan Economic and Trade Cooperation Seminar

Yinchuan


Input: More than three hundred Taiwanese businesspeople gathered in this land known as " lush southern - type fields north of the Great Wall, " beginning their tour and inspection journey.

More than three hundred

Taiwanese

the Great Wall


Input: Well, what is the unique charm in Ningxia of the western region that has attracted the attention of so many Taiwanese businesspeople?

Ningxia

Taiwanese


Input: Please watch this edition of Hot Topic Analysis for a detailed report.

Hot Topic Analysis


Input: The KMT vice chairman arrived at party headquarters to meet with KMT Chairman Lien Chan on the afternoon of %pw.

KMT

KMT

Lien Chan

the afternoon of


Input: After a long talk of over an hour, Wang Jin - pyng expressed his wish not to renew his term as KMT vice chairman.

over an hour

Wang Jin - pyng

KMT


Input: He said that he will follow Lien Chan as a lifelong volunteer.

Lien Chan


Input: %pw


Input: A much better looking News Night I might add as Paula Zahn sits in for Anderson and Aaron /.

News Night

Paula Zahn

Anderson

Aaron


Input: They're both off /-


Input: Look at that /.


Input: Is that a replacement /?


Input: Paula Paula /.

Paula

Paula


Input: Thank you for your faith Larry and thank you for your graciousness /.

Larry


Input: And we're going to get started here /.


Input: Good evening everybody /.


Input: Welcome to News Night /.

News Night


Input: As uh Larry just told you I'm Paula Zahn filling in for the two men Anderson Cooper and Aaron Brown /.

Larry

Paula Zahn

Anderson Cooper

Aaron Brown


Input: He lost his life long ago /.


Input: but there's still something modern science can give him back his identity /.


Input: The mystery of the frozen airman continues /.


Input: Next stop the lab /.


Input: And anger in the hood over a sign of the times /.


Input: If Fifty Cent doesn't have good sense then he needs to stop doing what he's doing /.

Fifty Cent


Input: The rap star's new movie is one thing /.

one


Input: but the billboards for it are another /.


Input: Residents of Los Angeles want them and their message moved /.

Los Angeles


Input: and the studio is caving /.


Input: Also tonight the rise and fall and rise and fall and rise and fall of Martha Stewart /.

tonight

Martha Stewart


Input: How many ups and downs can one woman have /?

one


Input: This is News Night /.

News Night


Input: First of all here's a quick track of some of the stories we're following tonight /.

First

tonight


Input: President Bush unveiled a seven point one billion dollar plan to help protect Americans against the threat from bird flu /.

Bush

seven point one billion dollar

Americans


Input: It includes stockpiling enough vaccine to protect twenty million people /.

twenty million


Input: The president says there is no immediate threat but there is cause for concern /.


Input: In Washington tensions are high after an unsual Senate session /.

Washington

Senate


Input: Democrats used a little used rule to force a special closed session /.

Democrats


Input: Democrats say it was to force Republican leaders to complete a long promised investigation into how Bush administration officials handled pre-war intelligence on Iraq /.

Democrats

Republican

Bush

Iraq


Input: Republicans for their part are calling it a political stunt /.

Republicans


Input: And Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says more American troops could soon be heading to Iraq /.

Defense

Donald Rumsfeld

American

Iraq


Input: He says they will be needed temporarily to prevent an expected increase in insurgent attacks ahead of Iraq's parliamentary election in December /.

Iraq

December


Input: But we begin tonight with an ongoing mystery /.

tonight


Input: Who is that lone man discovered last month frozen in California's Sierra Nevada mountains with just a few tantalizing clues to his identity /?

last month

California

Sierra Nevada mountains


Input: This we do know at this hour /.

this hour


Input: The man died more than sixty years ago /.

more than sixty years ago


Input: He was in the military apparently a World War Two airman /.

World War Two


Input: And while it looks like his plane crashed in the mountains so did twenty - five other planes around the same time /.

twenty - five

the same time


Input: Thelma Gutierrez went inside the forensic laboratory where scientists are trying to solve this mystery /.

Thelma Gutierrez


Input: An address book a plastic comb a vintage penny /.


Input: You're looking at the last things a young airman put into his pockets on the day he died clues to a World War Two cold case that you're about to see for the very first time /.

last

first

the day he died

World War Two


Input: It is a mystery that begins high in the Sierra Nevada Mountains at the bottom of a glacier /.

the Sierra Nevada Mountains


Input: Two weeks ago climbers discovered a frozen man face down in the snow still in his army air force uniform and an unopened silk parachute /.

Two weeks ago


Input: After six decades the airman is exhumed from his icy tomb and thawed out /.

six decades


Input: but he's wearing no military dog tags or ID /.


Input: Did this World War Two pilot perish when his training flight crashed in the mountains like twenty - five other ill fated flights more than sixty years ago /?

World War Two

twenty - five

more than sixty years ago


Input: The search for clues takes us to Honolulu Hawaii to the joint powmia accounting command or jpac /.

Honolulu

Hawaii

the joint powmia accounting command

jpac


Input: The mystery of the frozen airman is just one of more than a thousand different unsolved cases that scientists here at jpac are trying to solve /.

one

more than a thousand

jpac


Input: In this laboratory alone I'm surrounded by the remains of at least twenty different service members who are in the process of being identified so that they too can go home /.

at least twenty


Input: The investigation begins with a team of forensic specialists who probe and study the airman's bones teeth and his belongings to piece together who he is /.


Input: And almost immediately clues begin to surface /.


Input: Dr. Robert Mann a forensic anthropologist has determined that the airman was Caucasian and had fair hair /.

Robert Mann

Caucasian


Input: Next though I'm going to have to look at his clavicles /.


Input: The airman's collar bones and pelvic bones prove that he was in his twenties and died in an airplane crash /.

his twenties


Input: This is a person who likely died on impact versus perhaps freezing to death up in the mountains /.


Input: I think that uh the injuries were so substantial um and severe that he wouldn't have felt anything /.


Input: He would have died immediately /.


Input: One two /-

One

two


Input: Another important clue /.


Input: He has a significant number of uh fillings /.


Input: Like the bones xrays of his wisdom teeth also tell us something about his age /.


Input: Root tips are closed /.


Input: they're sealed up which is more indicative of someone who would be at least twenty - one years old /.

at least twenty - one years old


Input: And Dr. Andy Henry notices something else /.

Andy Henry


Input: The airmen have straight teeth /.


Input: so he had a nice smile good teeth /.


Input: Yes I would have to say that yes /.


Input: Then there are the material clues the things he had on him when he died that offer a snapshot into who he could have been /.


Input: If there's a badge or anything else that /-


Input: We know he was wearing a World War Two army air force uniform /.

World War Two


Input: Remnants of his sweater undergarments and socks are still intact /.


Input: And more clues emerge from his tattered uniform a corroded nameplate this pin on his collar and this army aircorps insignia /.


Input: When I found these insignia I was happy to see them /.


Input: And our young white - haired airman also carried this black comb and some pocket change forty - five cents worth /.

forty - five cents


Input: Some of these dimes are in ranging from nineteen thirty - six to nineteen forty - two /.

nineteen thirty - six

nineteen forty - two


Input: In his uniform breast pocket Dr. Paul Emanovsky found this vintage Schafer pen and three small leatherbound address books /.

Schafer

three


Input: The pages have been decomposing /.


Input: but could they contain names of friends and loved ones /?


Input: And we're going to put it in a spectral comparator /.


Input: At first nothing /.

first


Input: then like magic clues begin to emerge /.


Input: Uh you can see all these letters from the calendar Sunday Monday Tuesday up at the top one nine four and two /.

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

one

nine

four

two


Input: Nineteen forty - two /.

Nineteen forty - two /.


Input: Yeah /.


Input: After hours of meticulous examination of each address book they yield no personal information clues that could have faded with time /.

hours


Input: And so while we still do not know who our twenty - something fair - haired airman is enormous progress has been made /.

twenty - something


Input: Out of the thousands of unidentified World War Two service members Dr. Mann says they've narrowed it down to just ten /.

thousands

ten

World War Two

Mann


Input: So what was it like to grow up there /?


Input: In Pleasant Grove we recently met these three sisters all in their eighties who have high hopes that the frozen airman proves to be their big brother Glen Munn whose plane went missing in the Sierra back in nineteen forty - two /.

Pleasant Grove

three

their eighties

nineteen forty - two

Glen Munn

the Sierra


Input: Oh I just wanted you know to know that he was found and that we can have him brought home here for burial and /-


Input: We don't know that though /.


Input: We don't /.


Input: but that's my wishes /.


Input: And until they learn otherwise they say they will keep that hope alive /.


Input: And in the weeks and months ahead scientists are convinced they will identify this airman and return him home to his family wherever they might be /.

weeks

months


Input: Thelma Gutierrez CNN Honolulu Hawaii /.

Thelma Gutierrez

CNN

Honolulu

Hawaii


Input: And there are some new developments to talk about tonight /.

tonight


Input: Scientists may be even closer to solving the mystery /.


Input: For an update we're joined by Dr. Robert Mann one of the senior scientists you just saw working on this cold case /.

Robert Mann

one


Input: Thanks for spending time with us tonight doctor /.

tonight


Input: We understand since Thelma left your laboratories you've now wittled this down to perhaps four airmen /.

Thelma

four


Input: is that true /?


Input: Well hi Paula /.

Paula


Input: yes we have /.


Input: Uh when the remains came in a little over a week ago our analysts and historians got to work on that /.

a little over a week ago


Input: and they were able to wittle it down the number of missing aircraft uh to a few /.


Input: and at this point they've wittled it down to one aircraft and a missing crew of four individuals /.

one

four


Input: So we've gone from several possible aircraft to one aircraft and from several missing airmen to four /.

one

four


Input: So how much easier will that make it for you to unlock this case, do you think /?


Input: Well I think it'll help quite a bit /.


Input: Um any time you've got a body uh or remains like this that has come in and they're in pretty good condition such as this one is, it's mummified remains /.


Input: We have some soft tissue we can deal with /.


Input: so we can look at the color of the hair /.


Input: we can tell right away the race and the sex of the individual /.


Input: but then there are other things that are hidden beneath the soft tissue that are revealed only in the skeleton /.


Input: and that's where we're going to now /.


Input: So in the interest of full disclosure what I know about forensics is basically what I've learned on CSI /.

CSI


Input: and one would think that because you've got it now narrowed down to four potential airmen that perhaps you could go to four families get strands of hair and try to do a potential DNA match with what you've found in the ice /.

four

four


Input: Is it not that simple /?


Input: Well no no it's not that simple /.


Input: Um one thing we always caution people about is the pool of aircraft and missing airmen could be larger than what we're looking at /.


Input: And what we want to do is we don't want to just look at the material evidence that we have and immediately um jump to a conclusion that this is a certain individual /.


Input: What we want to do is have the evidence speak for itself /.


Input: and when we look at this individual as we've done the biological profile looking at his remains his bones his teeth and the material evidence /.


Input: and what we're able to tell from this individual is that he died in his twenties he stood somewhere between five foot nine and six foot two inches tall um he sustained massive trauma to his body on impact /.

his twenties

five foot nine

six foot two inches


Input: And he's Caucasoid male /.

Caucasoid


Input: and so we know much more now just one week later than what we did when he came in about eight days ago /.

just one week later

about eight days ago


Input: So the most important question is when do you think you're going to know exactly who he is /?


Input: Well that's the most commonly asked question that we have /.


Input: and you know the reality is nobody can give you the answer /.


Input: Nobody knows for sure exactly when we'll identify him /.


Input: What it depends on is that all the lines of evidence come together for successful identification /.


Input: If I were to give my best opinion in this it would be a few weeks to a few months /.

a few weeks

a few months


Input: Well we'll be keeping our fingers crossed for you /.


Input: Know how hard you all are working in the lab there Dr. Mann /.

Mann


Input: Thank you for spending some time with us tonight /.

tonight


Input: Our pleasure /.


Input: Thank you Paula /.

Paula


Input: thank you /.


Input: We're going to turn now to some of the other stories in our world tonight /.

tonight


Input: Here's Erica Hill from Headline News /.

Erica Hill

Headline News


Input: Hi Erica /.

Erica


Input: Hi Paula /.

Paula


Input: we start off with a tragic dispute after a traffic /.


Input: a tragic death has now been settled in court /.


Input: Now the dispute came between divorced parents over where to bury their son who was killed in Iraq /.

Iraq


Input: A California judge has now ruled army staff sergeant Jason Hendrix to remain buried next to his grandfather that is in Oklahoma where his father lives /.

California

Oklahoma

Jason Hendrix


Input: His mother claimed her son wanted to be buried in California where she lived /.

California


Input: but the judge says her testimony was quote forced and contrived /.


Input: Austin Texas Republican Congressman Tom DeLay gets his way /.

Austin

Texas

Republican

Tom DeLay


Input: The judge scheduled to preside over his trial was removed from the case today /.

today


Input: DeLay's attorneys heads off the recusal because they questioned the judge's impartiality since he had contributed to Democratic causes /.

DeLay

Democratic


Input: DeLay is charged with money laundering and conspiracy /.

DeLay


Input: He has pleaded not guilty /.


Input: In Washington the federal reserve once again raising a key short term interest rate by a quarter percent /.

Washington

a quarter percent


Input: It is the twelfth such hike since June of last year /.

twelfth

June of last year


Input: More could be on the way /.


Input: In its statement the fed dismissed concerns that the economy has slowed down because of Hurricane Katrina /.

Hurricane Katrina


Input: And in case you missed it the Royals are here /.

Royals


Input: Today Britain's Prince Charles and his wife Camilla laid flowers at the World Trade Center site in New York and then dedicated a nearby memorial to British victims of the nine eleven attack /.

Today

Britain

New York

Prince Charles

Camilla

World Trade Center

British

the nine eleven attack


Input: It is the first stop on their eight day trip across the United States Paula /.

first

eight day

the United States

Paula


Input: and I'm sure I'll be hearing a little bit more about it all week /.

all week


Input: Yeah Erica I actually um bumped into them along with three hundred of their closest friends earlier tonight on their last stop of the day here in New York /.

Erica

three hundred

earlier tonight

the day

New York


Input: and they were uh uh uh amazingly casual and accessible /.


Input: We were all quite surprised /.


Input: That's good to hear /.


Input: Thanks Erica /.

Erica


Input: see you a little bit later on /.


Input: And still to come on News Night tonight the saddest post-Katrina stories were those of the eldery who died in hospitals and nursing homes /.

News Night

post-Katrina


Input: Now there are thirteen investigations into why and how such tragedies happened /.

thirteen


Input: And supermodels aren't the only ones to whom weight matters /.


Input: Jockies also may go too far to stay thin much too far /.


Input: When at my worst I was heaving three or five to six seven times a day /.

three

five

six

seven


Input: Starving to stay thin that and more still to come on News Night /.

News Night


Input: They happen to be the most vulnerable of hurricane victims the elderly many desperately ill living in nursing homes their fate in the hands of others /.


Input: Dozens died /.

Dozens


Input: There are at least thirteen investigations now underway /.

at least thirteen


Input: And at some nursing homes the failure to evacuate cost lives /.


Input: In other cases it was the evacuation itself that proved fatal /.


Input: Here's Keith Oppenheim /.

Keith Oppenheim


Input: My mother was Thelma Wahl /.

Thelma Wahl


Input: She was ninety years old /.

ninety years old


Input: She was a very good mother /.


Input: She was at Huntingdon because she needed care /.

Huntingdon


Input: Priscilla Scott is mourning /.

Priscilla Scott


Input: Her ninety year old mother Thelma Wahl was a resident of the Huntingdon Place Nursing Home in Chalmette outside New Orleans /.

ninety year old

Thelma Wahl

the Huntingdon Place Nursing Home

Chalmette

New Orleans


Input: Priscilla says Thelma Wahl had serious osteoperosis fractures in her vertebrae but says Thelma was not on the verge of death /.

Priscilla

Thelma Wahl

Thelma


Input: On Sunday August twenty - eighth the day before Hurricane Katrina struck the nursing home decided to evacuate patients /.

Sunday August twenty - eighth

Hurricane Katrina


Input: They waited too late to make the decision /.


Input: Priscilla says her mother should have been transported by ambulance /.

Priscilla


Input: Instead she says her mother sat on a school bus for twelve hours to Lafayette Louisiana normally a three hour trip /.

twelve hours

three hour

Lafayette Louisiana


Input: She says police told her there was no air conditioning /.


Input: Police declined comment /.


Input: The owner of the nursing home Thelma Wahl was being taken to tells us by the time the bus arrived Thelma Wahl was dead /.

Thelma Wahl

Thelma Wahl


Input: I feel that uh the bus is what did it to her /.


Input: She was alive when she left that nursing home /.


Input: but she was not alive when she got to the Lafayette area /.

Lafayette


Input: CNN made repeated attempts to contact administrators or representatives of Huntingdon Place /.

CNN

Huntingdon Place


Input: but either we could not make contact or our calls were not returned /.


Input: But staff for the Louisiana Attorney General's office did speak to us by phone and confirmed that the matter of just what happened to Thelma Wahl when she was transported from this facility is under investigation /.

Louisiana

Thelma Wahl


Input: After dozens of patients died in the wake of Hurricane Katrina nursing homes have been under scrutiny /.

dozens

Hurricane Katrina


Input: Thirty - four patients were left behind at Saint Rita's nursing home in New Orleans when Katrina hit /.

Thirty - four

Saint Rita's

New Orleans

Katrina


Input: They all died in the flood /.


Input: The owners were charged with negligent homicide /.


Input: The county coroner says he urged Saint Rita's to move its patients /.

Saint Rita's


Input: They insisted several patients were too fragile to move /.


Input: Before Hurricane Rita a busload of nursing home residents were being evacuated from Houston /.

Hurricane Rita

Houston


Input: but during the ride a fire from a back wheel accelerated because of oxygen canisters patients on board were using /.


Input: Twenty - three people died /.

Twenty - three


Input: Federal officials are investigating /.


Input: No charges have been filed /.


Input: Joe Dodges executive director of the Louisiana Nursing Home Association says when it comes to evacuations elder care facilities are damned if they do and damned if they don't /.

Joe Dodges

the Louisiana Nursing Home Association


Input: Walk a mile in our shoes that's all I have to say because anybody who works in a nursing home will very quickly learn that these are very fragile patients /.

a mile


Input: We did the very best we could in these situations /.


Input: We've got /-


Input: Dodges says the reality is old sick patients are always in jeopardy when a hurricane strikes a dilemma made worse by massive traffic jams during pre-storm evacuations /.

Dodges


Input: I mean if they're on a bus for nine or twelve hours there's a good chance someone's going to die unfortunately /.

nine

twelve hours


Input: Certainly it's a very very difficult question to answer should I evacuate /?


Input: Jeff Meitrod and Steve Riddyah write for the Times Picayune New Orleans' daily newspaper /.

Jeff Meitrod

Steve Riddyah

the Times Picayune

New Orleans'


Input: They say nursing homes had to make tough calls /.


Input: But last spring in a series of stories called State of Neglect they reported that Louisiana's nursing homes are often poorly run and poorly regulated /.

last spring

State of Neglect

Louisiana


Input: Nursing homes that kill residents nursing homes that um seriously injure patients um because of bad care /.


Input: uh and the state doesn't really do very much about it /.


Input: and so nursing home owners know that in a lot of cases it's less expensive to break the rules and to hurt people than it is to provide the level of care that /-


Input: Huntington Place was criticized in the articles and has had several law suits brought against it /.

Huntington Place


Input: but it had a good inspection record /.


Input: Priscilla Scott says she is trying to contact the nursing home owners but hasn't been able to find them /.

Priscilla Scott


Input: She feels even if they had to make a tough call they owe her a better explanation as to why her mother died /.


Input: Keith Oppenheim CNN New Orleans /.

Keith Oppenheim

CNN

New Orleans


Input: It still isn't clear why Huntington evacuated Thelma Wahl by bus rather than by ambulance /.

Huntington

Thelma Wahl


Input: but officials have said there were not enough ambulances to take care of everyone in the region /.


Input: Tomorrow night I will have a special report on a struggle that affects more than ten million Americans including one million men the struggle with eating disorders anorexia and bulimia /.

Tomorrow night

more than ten million

one million

Americans


Input: As I just said it's not just women and girls who are affected /.


Input: Men too struggle with these disorders /.


Input: and I interviewed one of the nation's top jockies Shane Sellers about the battle he waged everyday to control his weight /.

Shane Sellers


Input: In the morning I'd get up and take a diet pill um drink a cup of coffee um and then head out to the race track and /-

the morning


Input: With no food in your stomach /.


Input: No food in my stomach no /.


Input: And um you know you go and see the trainers and work your horses in the morning that you have to work /.

the morning


Input: Um by ten o'clock you're finished uh /-

ten o'clock


Input: Were you hungry at this point /?


Input: Oh I'm starving you know /.


Input: I mean I went to bed with nothing in my stomach either /.


Input: Maybe you know just a piece of ham or s- /-


Input: You know just grab something to put in my stomach before I went to bed and head to the track and maybe lay down for an hour and then uh head to the hotbox for a couple hours four or five pounds of water /.

an hour

four or five pounds


Input: The hotbox is a sauna a fixture in almost every jockey locker room /.


Input: The hotbox sweatbox /.


Input: Sellers would often spend two hours inside pooling or sweating off extra pounds /.

two hours


Input: And are you miserable the whole time you're in there /?


Input: Oh it's horrible /.


Input: You have to be very weak /.


Input: Weak /.


Input: Can't have nothing /.


Input: Yeah you're already dehydrated you know /?


Input: So for more than twenty years you went through this process of basically not eating anything during the day sitting in the sauna a couple hours a day sweating two or three pounds off getting back on your horses training and maybe maybe having a piece of ham /.

more than twenty years

a couple hours

two or three pounds


Input: and that's all you had to sustain you /.


Input: If I did eat anything sometime, when at my worst three or five to six seven times a day I was heaving /.

three

five

six

seven


Input: Jockies call it heaving or flipping /.


Input: doctors would call it bulimia /.


Input: Overcome by hunger pains Sellers would eat massive amounts of food and then throw it up to make weight /.

Sellers


Input: He says a tour of a jockey locker room shows you just how easy and accepted it was /.


Input: These are regular toilets /.


Input: and this is what they call a heaving /.


Input: this is where they heave /.


Input: You know it's a much different type of commode /.


Input: I don't know if it was especially made for that purpose /.


Input: but it's sure not the same as the other /.


Input: and that's what we used it for /.


Input: Is it true that some of you got so efficient at flipping that you could actually do it without putting your finger down your throat /.


Input: I was one /.

one


Input: Jockey Shane Sellers just one of the many people you'll meet tomorrow night in Walking the Thin Line /.

Shane Sellers

one

tomorrow night

Walking the Thin Line


Input: It is a special edition of Paula Zahn Now that gets underway at eight pm eastern /.

Paula Zahn Now

eight pm eastern


Input: Still to come on News Night tonight the Senate shuts down the doors clears the gallery /.

News Night

Senate


Input: Was today's rare closed session needed to gaurd national secrets /.

today


Input: or was it a political forum /.


Input: And the president wants billions to help fight a possible bird flu pandemic /.

billions


Input: Sounds like a lot of money /.


Input: but will it actually be enough /?


Input: Also tonight rap star Fifty Cent may be at the top of the charts /.

Fifty Cent


Input: but one LA neighborhood isn't buying it /.

LA


Input: We can't say how those who will be voting on Samuel Alito's nomination to Supreme Court feel about him /.

Samuel Alito's

Supreme Court


Input: but we can say something about how you feel tonight /.

tonight


Input: Here are the results of the CNN USA Today Gallup poll released just minutes ago of those asked about the president's choice Judge Alito to succeed Justice Sandra Day O'Connor /.

CNN

USA Today

Gallup

just minutes ago

Alito

Sandra Day O'Connor


Input: Seventeen percent said he's an excellent choice /.

Seventeen percent


Input: twenty - six percent called him a good choice /.

twenty - six percent


Input: twenty - two percent rated him only fair /.

twenty - two percent


Input: seventeen percent thought he was a poor choice /.

seventeen percent


Input: Questions about the facts or what were presented as facts that led the United States into the war in Iraq spilled into open warfare today on the Senate floor /.

the United States

Iraq

today

Senate


Input: Democrats forced the Senate into a rare closed door session /.

Democrats

Senate


Input: Republican leader Bill Frist said the Senate was hijacked /.

Republican

Bill Frist

Senate


Input: CNN's Ed Henry was there /.

CNN

Ed Henry


Input: A Democratic sneak attack that sent shock waves through the Senate /.

Democratic

Senate


Input: Mr. President enough time has gone by /.


Input: I demand on behalf of the American people that we understand why these investigations aren't being conducted /.

American


Input: Democratic leader Harry Reed accused Republicans of failing to probe allegations the White House manipulated intelligence to justify the war in Iraq /.

Democratic

Republicans

Harry Reed

the White House

Iraq


Input: And in accordance with rule twenty - one I now move that Senate go into closed session /.

rule twenty - one

Senate


Input: President I second the motion /.

second


Input: An easy but rare maneuver with extraordinary consequences /.


Input: The Senate chamber was locked down, television cameras shut off, so law makers could go into secret session to debate /.

Senate


Input: Republican leader Bill Frist was enraged /.

Republican

Bill Frist


Input: Not with the previous Democratic leader or the current Democratic leader have ever I been slapped in the face with such an affront to the leadership of this grand institution /.

Democratic

Democratic


Input: There has been at least consideration for the other side of the aisle before a stunt /.


Input: and this is a pure stunt /.


Input: Reed refused to back down demanding the Republican led intelligence committee finish a long awaited report on whether the Bush administration twisted intelligence /.

Reed

Bush

Republican


Input: This investigation has been stymied stopped, obstructions thrown up every step of the way /.


Input: That's the real slap in the face /.


Input: that's the slap in the face /.


Input: And today the American people are going to see a little bit of light /.

today

American


Input: What's really going on is Democrats feel emboldened by the indictment of Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff believing this is their chance to issue a broader indictment of the Bush administration /.

Democrats

Cheney

Bush


Input: We have lost over two thousand of our best and bravest /.

over two thousand


Input: over fifteen thousand have been seriously wounded /.

over fifteen thousand


Input: We are spending more than six million dollars a month with no end in sight /.

more than six million dollars


Input: and this Republican led Senate intelligence committee refuses to even ask the hard questions about the misinformation /-

Republican

Senate


Input: Republicans insist they're completing the investigation /.

Republicans


Input: and this is just a distraction /.


Input: This is purely political /.


Input: This is settling an old political score /.


Input: Democrats say they also want to signal they're ready to stand up to the Republican majority and may even filibuster the president's latest Supreme Court pick Samuel Alito a move that would make these events seem like the opening fireworks in a much nastier battle /.

Democrats

Republican

Supreme Court

Samuel Alito


Input: Ed Henry CNN Capitol Hill /.

CNN

Capitol Hill


Input: So do you think we just saw the outlines to what the midterm election battlelines might look like /?


Input: A debate that's likely to rage on for many many months to come /.

many many months to come


Input: Turning our attention now to something that has a lot of folks concerned /.


Input: You've been hearing an awful lot about avian or bird flu /.


Input: The most common and deadly form has already spread in birds from South Asia to Europe /.

South Asia

Europe


Input: And now there is real concern that the virus could mutate and become devastating to humans /.


Input: In fact some health experts say it's just a matter of time /.


Input: Today President Bush unveiled a seven point one billion dollar plan to prepare for a possible flu pandemic /.

Today

Bush

seven point one billion dollar


Input: Now much of that money would go toward stockpiling enough vaccine to protect twenty million healthcare workers and other first responders speeding up production of vaccines and buying the anti-viral drugs Tamoflu and Rolenzo which in some cases prevent flu infection /.

twenty million

first


Input: And we now turn to senior medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupto who has just gotten back from South Asia where bird flu has in the past two years killed at least sixty - two people about half of those who were struck with it /.

Sanjay Gupto

South Asia

the past two years

at least sixty - two

about half


Input: Hundreds of millions of birds around the world have been destroyed to try to contain the disease /.

Hundreds of millions


Input: And Dr. Gupto now just joins us from the Emory University hospital in Atlanta /.

Gupto

the Emory University hospital

Atlanta


Input: Always good to see you doctor /.


Input: So /-


Input: Thanks /.


Input: I know you've had a chance to study the plan the president put forth today /.

today


Input: Does it go far enough in your estimation /?


Input: You know what's sort of interesting Paula /.

Paula


Input: on one hand it is remarkable that the president is devoting as much time and as much money uh all towards a disease that doesn't exist yet /.


Input: Pandemic flu doesn't exist yet /.


Input: But a lot of people are talking about it /.


Input: and I think that's remarkable to a lot of people eh who are citizens and a lot of people in the public health community as well /.


Input: On the other hand to be able to outline and do the thing that were talked about today to basically completely revamp the public health system so that local officials can talk to state officials that can talk to federal officials to be able to pinpoint exactly when a cluster of bird flu happens that takes probably a lot more money and really a complete revamping of our public health systems /.

today


Input: The other thing Paula really important is that they talk a lot about the fact that we're a lot better at taking care of patients now than we were in nineteen eighteen, we have a lot of ICUs a lot of ICUs in the hospital behind me that can take care of critically ill patients /.

Paula

nineteen eighteen


Input: The problem though at any given time eighty to ninety percent of those ICU rooms are full so we just don't have the surge capacity and that's going to cost lots and lots of money to create a health system where we can take care not only of the ill now but the ill that might come in with a pandemic Paula /.

eighty to ninety percent

Paula


Input: Uh let's talk about the other problem of the plan where the president wants to spend a billion dollars to stockpile antiviral medicine like Tamaflu and Rolenza /.

a billion dollars


Input: Do we even know if these two medications are going to be effective against a strain that hasn't even presented itself /?

two


Input: here's the important thing about that /.


Input: We don't know for sure /.


Input: A lot of people focusing a lot of energy on Tamaflu and Rolenza /.


Input: These are antiviral drugs /.


Input: they are not vaccines /.


Input: They are antiviral drugs uh designed to basically shorten uh how bad the flu might effect you uh try to lessen its impact /.


Input: But we only know that it might work because of laboratory studies and animal studies uh uh in particular /.


Input: The way to really study it would be to knowingly expose people to bird flu /.


Input: and nobody will actually ever do that study for obvious reasons /.


Input: So it's just theoretical really for the most part that those will work Paula /.

Paula


Input: Dr. Sanjay Gupto thanks for the update /.

Sanjay Gupto


Input: By the way are you catching a cold /?


Input: A a little bit /.


Input: You know I just got back /.


Input: and the ninteen hour plane ride /.

ninteen hour


Input: Not bird flu though /.


Input: I can assure you that Paula /.

Paula


Input: Chicken soup /.


Input: That's right /.


Input: Just what the doctor ordered /.


Input: Works all the time /.


Input: Yeah right /.


Input: I made a free house call for you doctor /.


Input: Coming up on News Night Tonight, cooking a turkey is fine /.

News Night Tonight


Input: appearing in one isn't /.


Input: Will her Nielson do to Martha Stewart what her prison time didn't /?

Nielson

Martha Stewart


Input: Rapper Fifty Cents or Fitty Cent as some of you say sells millions of records /.

Fifty Cents

Fitty Cent

millions


Input: but one neighborhood doesn't like the sales pitch /.

one


Input: They call him Fitty Cent /.

Fitty Cent


Input: but he is worth millions /.

millions


Input: His music like the gold single PIMP may come straight from violent inner city streets /.

PIMP


Input: but suburban kids from coast to coast love the heavy base beat /.


Input: The music sells /.


Input: but not everyone is buying the message /.


Input: Savela Vargas reports /.


Input: Fitty Cent's film Get Rich or Die Trying hasn't even hit theaters yet /.

Fitty Cent's


Input: but its marketing has already enraged people in South Central Los Angeles /.

South Central Los Angeles


Input: Since two thousand there have been eight hundred homicides in this community /.

two thousand

eight hundred


Input: Now who wants to uphold that standard /?


Input: Who wants to keep perpetrating that madness /?


Input: The movie's billboard shows the rapper in a crucifixion - like pose brandishing a microphone in one hand and a gun in the other /.

one


Input: Paramount you are doing damage to our community /.

Paramount


Input: you are doing an injustice to our community /.


Input: and you committing violence in our community /.


Input: and that includes Fifty Cent too /.

Fifty Cent


Input: It must go /.


Input: And go it did /.


Input: A day after about twenty five people rallied in Hyde Park Paramount pulled one sign down and since has pulled about half a dozen others near LA area schools /.

A day

about twenty five

one

about half a dozen

Hyde Park

Paramount

LA


Input: I think what happens oftentimes people are so overwhelmed in communities particularly African American communities by say an image in this case Hollywood /.

African American

Hollywood


Input: It just seems so big /.


Input: it just seems so overwhelming /.


Input: it's almost like can we really fight City Hall /?

City Hall


Input: Whatever we're going to do no matter how much outrage and anger that we express it's not going to change anything /.


Input: But in this case that was shown that that's not the case /.


Input: A Paramount spokesman says the company is reviewing billboards in other locations /.

Paramount


Input: Now similar complaints are coming from Brooklyn New York /.

Brooklyn

New York


Input: Back in LA the image hits too close to home /.

LA


Input: Not too long ago we was over here /.


Input: and a guy just pulled out a gun and was shooting right in front of my daughter /.


Input: We didn't come back for a week cause I was scared and she was /.

a week


Input: So I mean that right there it enraged me /.


Input: Not a good message /.


Input: No it's already enough gang violence out here /.


Input: We don't need that /.


Input: Cynthia Levas director of Golden Day preschool thinks the billboard touched a nerve because many children here are Fitty Cent fans /.

Golden Day preschool

Fitty Cent


Input: When it comes to ABC they be like A B /.


Input: and you have to wait for the other letters /.


Input: but Fitty Cent song they can sing that word for word /.

Fitty Cent


Input: Rapper Fitty Cent whose real name is Curtis Jackson says it was ludicrous to single out his poster /.

Fitty Cent

Curtis Jackson


Input: You got to look at how often we put out action films and other films that utilize weapons as a marketing tool /.


Input: We'll find guns or weapons on the cover of films probably more often than we'll find people's faces /.


Input: He thinks the controversy will lead the film to greater box office success /.


Input: but to the members of this community the victory is knowing that somebody listened /.


Input: Man they heard us /.


Input: They heard our voice /.


Input: and I'm glad /.


Input: I mean I mean usually in this area nobody really cares /.


Input: so for them to care about how we feel and how you know we raising our kids that meant a lot to all of us /.


Input: so I'm happy /.


Input: Savela Vargas CNN Los Angeles /.

Savela Vargas

CNN

Los Angeles


Input: And still ahead on News Night /.

News Night


Input: I carry this little packet my kid gave me /.


Input: See what my daughter /-


Input: Daddy I love you /.


Input: I miss you /.


Input: be safe /.


Input: come home ASAP /.


Input: Danger on the ground in Iraq and under it /.

Iraq


Input: IED Improvised Explosive Devices take a terrible toll /.


Input: And prison barely dented her popularity /.


Input: but can Martha Stewart survive her primetime ratings /?

Martha Stewart


Input: Everyday in Iraq US soldiers work very hard to reassure local civilians train the Iraqi army and stay alive /.

Iraq

US

Iraqi


Input: but with the increasing power of Improvised Explosive Devices IEDs staying alive takes a lot of training and time /.


Input: Eddie Shrahmin is imbedded with American soldiers in northern Bavil province /.

American

northern Bavil province


Input: As the uh informants /-


Input: Come here Strovell /.


Input: listen up please /.


Input: Like the soldiers he commands Lieutenant Colonel Ross Brown suits up daily trying to rid his area of roadside bombs /.

Ross Brown


Input: Whenever you roll out of the gate and you're out there operating you never know if you're going to hit one of these or not /.

one


Input: The first stop today is Route Tampa some of the worst stretch of highway in what is called the Triangle of Death /.

first

today

the Triangle of Death


Input: Salaam Alakum /.


Input: where these stall owners Brown told are aware of impending attacks /.

Brown


Input: Did you know in advance that the IED was going to go off here /?


Input: Tell him to look me in the eye /.


Input: tell me that again /.


Input: It is a fine line to walk routing out information without creating new enemies battling an insurgency that kills at will, that turns civilians into accomplices /.


Input: I think they're scared to death /.


Input: I think they see us as temporary and they got to live with those people forever /.


Input: Finding friends locally seems the toughest part of Brown's strategy /.

Brown


Input: but his next task proves just as difficult /.


Input: Here the Lieutenant Colonel has stopped at one of the firm bases one of the areas that Iraqis are manning their own position /.

Iraqis


Input: The commander on duty emerges out of uniform /.


Input: and the Lieutenant colonel struggles to find progress /.


Input: they didn't do too much work yesterday /.

yesterday


Input: They didn't do too much work the day before /.

the day before


Input: They haven't done too much work since they've been here /.


Input: Brown is unsure if this unit can survive an insurgent attack uncertainties shared by the US forces as well each soldier with his own way to cope /.

Brown

US


Input: Hey Morales you carry anything special with you on missions to help you out /?

Morales


Input: Well I carry my wedding ring a bracelet my wife sent me /-


Input: I carry a Bible Psalms ninety - one /.

Bible

Psalms ninety - one


Input: A picture of an angel an archangel /.


Input: I carry this little packet my kid gave me /.


Input: See what my daughter /-


Input: Daddy I love you /.


Input: I miss you /.


Input: be safe /.


Input: come home ASAP /?


Input: Isn't that cool /?


Input: All right let's go /.


Input: Overhead helicopters are responding to an IED attack that moments ago killed Colonel William Wood the highest ranking US officer to die in combat in Iraq a personal friend of Brown's an added personal reason why tomorrow he'll be suiting up again /.

moments ago

William Wood

Brown

US

Iraq

tomorrow


Input: Eddie Shrahmin CNN northern Bavil Province /.

CNN

northern Bavil Province


Input: And we turn our attention now to London where a memorial service was held today for the fifty - two victims of the bomb attacks in the city's public transport systems back in July /.

London

today

July

fifty - two


Input: Queen Elizabeth and Prime Minister Tony Blair attended as did relatives to those who died and emergency workers who responded to the terrorist attacks /.

Queen Elizabeth

Tony Blair


Input: Andrew Carey has the story of three firefighters who were first on the scene at one of the bombings /.

Andrew Carey

three

one

first


Input: A major incident in central London /-

London


Input: Four explosions ripping through the subway s- /-

Four


Input: Chaos on services with some passengers trapped underground /.


Input: It began as any other day you know just uh doing eh normal checks /.


Input: At nine o'clock we started our shift /.

nine o'clock


Input: And so the bells went /.


Input: It was about a minute past nine when we got the shout for uh smoke issuing in Allgate tube station /.

about a minute past nine

Allgate tube station


Input: The explosion at Allgate was the first of the four bombs to go off on July the seventh at eight fifty in the morning /.

Allgate

first

four

July the seventh

eight fifty in the morning


Input: But Paul Kelly Steve Sodbury and Mel Anderson of Shadwell Firestation's blue watch had no idea what had happened as they got into the fire engine to answer the call /.

Paul Kelly

Steve Sodbury

Mel Anderson


Input: On the arrival at Allgate we saw dozens of casualties outside the front sitting down /.

Allgate


Input: and it looked so serious that for one second I thought this must be like a training exercise /.

one second


Input: These people had flesh injuries /.


Input: but they also had psychological injuries /.


Input: They just needed reassurance /.


Input: They just needed reassurance because a lot of them were scared /.


Input: It always happens to someone else on the television a terrorist incident /.


Input: As medical teams arrived at the scene Steve Paul and two other firefighters went into the station /.

Steve

Paul

two


Input: This scene of walking down the platform and down the tracks with lines of injured people walking past you out the other way is /-


Input: I'll remember it forever I think /.


Input: By the time they reached the second carriage they knew they were dealing with a bomb explosion /.

second


Input: Carnage /.


Input: A man sitting down next door he had half his leg /.


Input: um a person lying down /.


Input: there was like a half a torso in front of the carriage as you go in /.

half


Input: It sounds very harsh to say now /.


Input: but when you're down there and you're dealing with it it kind of just happens /.


Input: You go into autopilot /.


Input: and you look /.


Input: and you think I can't help that person /.


Input: let's move on to the next one /.


Input: Eight people including the bomber died at Allgate /.

Eight

Allgate


Input: one hundred and twenty were injured /.

one hundred and twenty


Input: At the end of the day back home with their loved ones a time for the firefighters to reflect and some mixed emotions /.

the end of the day


Input: To them it was their happiness to see me walking through the door /.


Input: but I knew that somewhere someone's daughter wasn't coming home, their father wasn't coming home /.


Input: Watching it on the news is completely different to looking in the eyes of a wounded person /.


Input: As a fire brigade you're there to rescue them /.


Input: so it'll always be a sense of regret as we did as much as we could but there was still a human cost and there's nothing that we'll ever be able to do about it /.


Input: Andrew Carey CNN London /.

Andrew Carey

CNN

London


Input: A producer from our London Bureau /.

London


Input: Still to come the ups and downs of Martha Stewart and the British are coming! The British are coming!

Martha Stewart

British

British


Input: No wait /.


Input: aren't they already here /?


Input: But does anyone really care /?


Input: And now we're going to take a look at the trials and tribulations of Martha Stewart /.

Martha Stewart


Input: You might have thought serving time in prison was tough /.


Input: As it turns out, being on the outside might be even tougher /.


Input: It seems like just yesterday Martha Stewart was sprung from prison and poised for her comeback /.

just yesterday

Martha Stewart


Input: This is a country where we believe in second acts, we believe in redemption, we believe in confessional stories, we believe in the comeback, we've /-

second


Input: Five months behind bars hadn't dimmed Martha's image /.

Five months

Martha


Input: If anything it was soaring /.


Input: Along with her company stock it doubled during that time /.

that time


Input: Martha once again took the helm of her company and her magazine /.

Martha


Input: She also landed a starring role in the spinoff of one of TV's hottest reality shows The Apprentice /.

The Apprentice


Input: Martha the woman everyone loves to hate was loved /.

Martha


Input: It's really wonderful to be back /.


Input: I've missed you as you can imagine /.


Input: But what a difference a TV show makes especialy when that show is a flop /.


Input: I'm looking for the apprentice /.


Input: The Apprentice Martha Stewart debuted in September /.

The Apprentice Martha Stewart

September


Input: Her ratings tanked /.


Input: and her stock followed suit plunging about forty - seven percent since her release from prison in March /.

about forty - seven percent

March


Input: Once again Martha Stewart is persona non grata /.

Martha Stewart


Input: Even her friend and fellow Apprentice star Donald Trump made it clear that her show was not a good thing /.

Apprentice

Donald Trump


Input: He had this to say in a recent radio interview /.


Input: I think there was confusion between Martha's Apprentice and mine /.

Martha

Apprentice


Input: and mine continues to do well /.


Input: and the other has struggled very severely /.


Input: I think it probably hurt mine /.


Input: and I sort of predicted that it would /.


Input: You're fired /.


Input: Ouch smackdown from the Donald /.

the Donald


Input: Donald /?

Donald


Input: Martha Stewart punched back in a recent Fortune magazine interview saying she was actually told that she would be firing the Donald /.

Martha Stewart

the Donald

Fortune magazine


Input: Is the old Martha back again /?

Martha


Input: She has a track record of being associated unfortunately with the B word and not a little B but a capital B /.


Input: Can the comeback queen come back again /?


Input: I think she can be saved /.


Input: Anybody can be saved /.


Input: Any organization can be saved /.


Input: but it takes a lot of hard work /.


Input: Isn't that one of the reasons for our infatuation with Martha /?

one

Martha


Input: She's the perennial story of celebrity redemption /.


Input: She said this to Fortune magazine I have learned that I really can not be destroyed /.

Fortune magazine


Input: Apparently Martha Stewart is betting on her own comeback as well /.

Martha Stewart


Input: We'll see /.


Input: Still to come on News Night the prince and his brand new wife making their first trip to the US since their marriage /.

News Night

first

US


Input: This time it's not exactly a fairy tale /.


Input: This week Americans are getting a rare chance to treat royalty well like royalty /.

This week

Americans


Input: Prince Charles and his new wife Camilla have jumped across the pond and are touring the United States making their first stop today in New York /.

Prince Charles

Camilla

the United States

New York

first

today


Input: It's Charles' first opportunity to showcase his new wife /.

Charles

first


Input: but few Americans seem to care /.

Americans


Input: Here's Jeanie Mowth /.

Jeanie Mowth


Input: What a difference two decades make /.

two decades


Input: Charles and Diana visited a JC Penney's on the prince's last official US tour /.

Charles

Diana

a JC Penney's

last

US


Input: Twenty years later here's the prince with his new wife attending a party at the Museum of Modern Art along with Yoko Ono Diane Sawyer Henry Kissinger Donald Trump Joan Collins and even Sting /.

Twenty years later

the Museum of Modern Art

Yoko Ono

Diane Sawyer

Henry Kissinger

Donald Trump

Joan Collins

Sting


Input: But it still stings some Diana fans to see those old shots of glamorous Princess Di dancing with John Travolta at the White House /.

Diana

Princess Di

John Travolta

the White House


Input: But when it comes to Camilla gossip columnists can get pretty catty /.

Camilla


Input: We're all welcoming the prince and the duchess or mistress of whatever she is this week /.

this week


Input: A lone protestor parked herself outside the UN where Charles would later visit /.

the UN

Charles


Input: Camilla you are no princess said her sign with a horse on it /.

Camilla


Input: The horse is basically Camilla /.

Camilla


Input: We all know that she's a horse /.


Input: She doesn't belong here /.


Input: and she'll never be able to take Diana's place ever /.

Diana


Input: But at least the horse is pretty /.


Input: The royals flew in amid headlines declaring their visit a royal bore /.


Input: Only ninteen per cent of Americans polled said they were interested in the visit /.

Only ninteen per cent

Americans


Input: eighty - one per cent said they were not /.

eighty - one per cent


Input: Prince Charles and Camilla are in town /.

Prince Charles

Camilla


Input: Do you care /?


Input: Not a wit /.


Input: Royal watching is not for you /?


Input: I haven't watched it yet /.


Input: I loved Princess Diana /.

Princess Diana


Input: I don't care for this new chick in town /.


Input: Sorry /.


Input: The new chick and her prince started the day with a visit to Ground Zero /.

the day

Ground Zero


Input: They then unveiled a memorial to British victims of Nine Eleven /.

British

Nine Eleven


Input: Everywhere they went there were curtsies and /-


Input: Um, this is the first time I've seen you, and I've always wanted to ask you a question.

first


Input: Ah.


Input: Usually directors, otherwise, they have beards and very long hair, or otherwise they shave their heads.


Input: Oh.


Input: Oh! I hadn't thought about that.


Input: Actually a shaved head is really hard to manage, isn't it?


Input: Do you have to shave it every day?


Input: Right, yes.


Input: Um, when I've slept so much I can't wake up, I just shave my head and I'm awake.


Input: And do you need to polish it somehow?


Input: Then do you rub a little oil of some kind on it?


Input: Oh, after I shave it I rub on a little oil.


Input: Is it cold in the winter?


Input: Pretty cold.


Input: Do you wear a hat?


Input: In the winter?


Input: It forces me to wear a hat.


Input: That's a question I've always wanted to ask.


Input: Um, I'm sure that there are many people when they introduce you, aside from saying Director Ye Daying who has shot such and such, they can't avoid the cliche, they always have to say " I'd like to introduce Marshall Ye Ting's grandson. "

Ye Daying

Ye Ting


Input: Your father, Ye Zhengming, was Marshall Ye Ting's second child.

Ye Zhengming

Ye Ting

second


Input: Right.


Input: Oh!


Input: But today we're telling Ye Daying's story.

today

Ye Daying's


Input: Let's start with when you were young.


Input: When you were young you were very naughty.


Input: Ye Daying was born in Changchun in 1958.

Ye Daying

Changchun


Input: Although by that time his grandfather Ye Ting had been dead for 12 years, the Ye family maintained its status as a highly esteemed Communist household.

Ye Ting

Ye

12 years

Communist


Input: The next year the entire family transferred to Beijing, and Ye Daying spent his childhood there.

The next year

Beijing

Ye Daying


Input: He and his little friends went fishing, raised dogs, hunted sparrows, chased ducks, and many years later these supremely happy memories are all preserved in his movies and plays.

many years


Input: One, two, three, four.

One

two

three

four


Input: Ducks were the most precious asset in our village.


Input: The village mayor gave them all to me.


Input: The mayor said to me, there are eighty - six in all;

eighty - six


Input: he had me check to see that there were none missing.


Input: But I never did count them all carefully.


Input: 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86


Input: Did you see?


Input: Are there 86 of them?


Input: Yes.


Input: Ye Daying's mother, An Qi, was an educated woman who worked at the Changchun Film Studio.

Ye Daying's

An Qi

the Changchun Film Studio


Input: And his father, Ye Zhengming, was an outstanding son of the revolution.

Ye Zhengming


Input: Because after the Wannan Incident Ye Zhengming and his father Ye Ting were imprisoned for two years in a Kuomnintang prison.

the Wannan Incident

Ye Zhengming

Ye Ting

two years

Kuomnintang


Input: But then, and for the same reasons, just after the Cultural Revolution started, Ye Zhengming was treated as a major capitalist roader.

the Cultural Revolution

Ye Zhengming


Input: That year Ye Daying was just eight years old.

Ye Daying

eight years


Input: His family's sudden misfortune left the young Ye Daying with very disturbing memories.

Ye Daying


Input: He changed from a very well - behaved child into a naughty child.


Input: From that time on he often did things that went beyond the norm, sometimes to protect himself and sometimes to take care of his family.


Input: Ye Daying just corrected us; he said that Ye Ting should not be called Marshal Ye Ting but rather General Ye Ting.

Ye Daying

Ye Ting

Ye Ting

Ye Ting


Input: Right, right, right, General Ye Ting.

Ye Ting


Input: Why, is there a big difference between marshal and general?


Input: Um, he died in'46.


Input: That marshal, afterward, after Liberation, um, it was conferred on him, so only then --

Liberation


Input: OK, we'll call him General Ye Ting.

Ye Ting


Input: Mm.


Input: Because,


Input: Very naughty?


Input: To what extent were you naughty then?


Input: In fact I was a very well - behaved child.


Input: But I was, forced into it,, if you weren't naughty there was no way to survive.


Input: What do you mean forced into it?


Input: During the Cultural Revolution,, um, my family was considered capitalist roaders.

the Cultural Revolution


Input: So the kids then didn't want to play with you, or they would tease you, that sort of thing.


Input: Mm.


Input: So you always had to be fighting with people, such things,


Input: Why was that?


Input: Was it because people for example would say that your father was such and such, or your family was such and such.


Input: Right.


Input: So it was because of that sort of thing?


Input: Right, the majority of it was like that.


Input: Mm.


Input: Mm.


Input: Because you had to face them alone, OK, a dozen people who wanted to fight you.

dozen


Input: You had to show your stuff right off the bat, and you had to be tough.


Input: So that was, the only way you could overcome them and get the upper hand.


Input: Mm.


Input: Were you tough?


Input: Mm.


Input: Very tough.


Input: Tough enough to --


Input: Because, there was no way, if you weren't tough that was it,, how could you manage.


Input: You were the son of capitalist roaders,, you thought it was natural to be the object of bullying, and it's perfectly normal.


Input: Mm.


Input: , I remember one time, we were digging out an air - raid shelter, that --


Input: Those, good kids, they went there and threw stones.


Input: I didn't dare defend myself, so I just had to endure it for quite a while.


Input: Mm.


Input: Finally a very big rock, a lump of earth, hit me on the head, And I got angry, so angry that I rushed out with a shovel and hit them with the shovel.


Input: Where did the shovel come from?


Input: From digging the air - raid shelter, it was there, right.


Input: Mm.


Input: So you picked up the shovel and rushed them.


Input: Did you crack somebody's head open?


Input: Mm, anyhow, yes, I cracked their head open, it was very tragic.


Input: All of a sudden nobody was making a sound.


Input: Very --


Input: Once I fought back, for several years after nobody dared mess with me.

several years


Input: How many of them did you take out?


Input: I hit one of them and that was enough.


Input: Nopbody went to get the schoolmaster or somebody's father?


Input: They did, and there was a huge fuss.


Input: Mm.


Input: Because when I was little, having a big fight like that.


Input: Mm.


Input: Anyhow, more or less,, on average, every two years I changed school, and that's how it had to be.

two


Input: Mm.


Input: I remember one time -- Mm, also, when I was in fifth or sixth grade, someone yelled out, Down with Ye Zhengming, he was yelling at me, and I had to fight them.

fifth

sixth

Ye Zhengming


Input: Mm.


Input: After the fight I went home, and my father was standing far away.


Input: , the factory,, on the street, somebody had written in huge letters Down with Ye Zhengming,, the slogan.

Ye Zhengming


Input: Mm.


Input: I got accustomed to it while passing by at that time, and now when I think about it, it seems very much like a stage play.


Input: Mm.


Input: Back then I felt, looking at him standing so far away --


Input: I walked over to him, and he said, um, you really don't understand anything.


Input: At the time I felt like I had a grievance.


Input: And I felt, I was fighting for you, the people were cursing you, and I was fighting them.


Input: In fact that's the way kids think.


Input: Mm.


Input: You think, you bastard.


Input: What you say doesn't count.


Input: you come after me and I'll take you down.


Input: You come down, and I'll take you down.


Input: If you have balls, you come on down.


Input: Come on down.


Input: Come down.


Input: Come down, come on, fight, fight, fight.


Input: I say you take a whack.


Input: Whack.


Input: I'm telling you, if you kill somebody you'll pay with your life, do you understand?


Input: , You've already handed him over.


Input: I sent someone.


Input: OK, OK, I sent someone, so you come on and take a shot at me.


Input: Come on, take a whack at me.


Input: Take a whack at me.


Input: Your dad knows who broke the window.


Input: Take a whack.


Input: Take a whack.


Input: Take a whack.


Input: Aren't you willing to be friends with us?


Input: Yes, I am.


Input: He says he's willing.


Input: Did you hear?


Input: He says he's willing.


Input: Ok, that's all right, let's go play.


Input: This is a movie directed by Ye, called There's a Place Called Wangjiazhan.

Ye

There's a Place Called Wangjiazhan


Input: Wangjiazhuang, right.

Wangjiazhuang


Input: This is obviously him as a boy, uh, a memory of his childhood life.


Input: Right.


Input: Right.


Input: Which child is you.


Input: Is this child you, or is that child you?


Input: Actually we should be accurate; this child's experiences,


Input: So this child,


Input: Um, right, right, right, because once, I


Input: My father was denounced, and then the rebels took us, took that child to see.


Input: Mm.


Input: They denounced my father, so I was very indignant,


Input: They let a lot of people expose my father,


Input: Mm.


Input: Then the day after I took a kitchen knife and ran over to their home, that research institute, the doorway and vowed that I'd hack the guy up.

the day


Input: A kitchen knife; a knife from your kitchen at home.


Input: Oh, right, right, a knife from my kitchen at home.


Input: Then I was standing there, lots of people surrounding me, and in fact you can't just hack people up.


Input: But I had already said it.


Input: What did you say?


Input: said I have to hack him, have to hack, so it was more or less like this child.


Input: But, those adults standing around reasoned with me, said look, you don't understand this.


Input: If you do this, you'll stir up more trouble, and then won't your dad be even worse off?


Input: In fact when they said that, my mind had already eased.


Input: I could not lose the face this way,, So then I ran over and took a whack at the door, to get an excuse for myself.


Input: Was it all ruined? The door --


Input: I slashed it twice.


Input: Um, wasn't there any consequence?


Input: Mm, there was no consequence,, I just let the adults reason with me.


Input: Mm, and this is a memory from your childhood years.


Input: It, had a great influence on me.


Input: Including that village, that environment, it's all very familiar to you.


Input: More or less, very close to me, this is a novel of.


Input: Mm.


Input: Mm.


Input: , the reason I like it is because, um, it brings up lots of that kind of childhood memories.


Input: Mm, you spent a large part of your childhood in Beijing.

Beijing


Input: What year was it that you moved to Shanghai?

Shanghai


Input: How old were you at that time?


Input: , In'69 I was 11 years old.

11 years


Input: Mm.


Input: Mm, well.


Input: In'69 at the age of 11 you went from Beijing to Shanghai.

Beijing

Shanghai


Input: Mm, your living environment changed, but perhaps that mischievousness hadn't completely passed.


Input: Mm, as he puts it, looking at it now, some of the memories can be very painful, but it was pretty happy days.


Input: I went there every day and then they suspended classes,, so I couldn't go to school, couldn't go to class.


Input: Mm.


Input: So, later I remember there was -- Mm. A guy in the engineering team, and he brought Quotations from Chairman Mao and said to me, He said, now take this, now take these Quotations from Chairman Mao and teach yourselves, and in the future you'll take up arms and teach yourselves.

Quotations from Chairman Mao

Quotations from Chairman Mao


Input: A lot of people were very happy, very excited, because they were bringing back the college entrance exams, why were you feeling so depressed?


Input: Right, but the problem --


Input: Because, I had never studied well,


Input: In 1966 the Great Cultural Revolution came, and at that time Ye Daying's family moved from Beijing to Shanghai to live.

the Great Cultural Revolution

Ye Daying's

Beijing

Shanghai


Input: His father Ye Zhengming was being criticized as a capitalist roader at the research institute, and the political situation was getting worse by the day.

Ye Zhengming


Input: And the change of regions did nothing to change the violent nature of Ye Daying's life.

Ye Daying's


Input: He was still struggling at the edge of preserving justice.


Input: When you got to Shanghai the environment changed; didn't your whole person change?

Shanghai


Input: After I got to Shanghai,, settling into,, that,

Shanghai


Input: All that time, from'69 to'76, I graduated from senior middle school, it all took place there.


Input: Mm.