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PJ Huffstutter, EPA Sues MotorScience Inc. Over Emissions Documents. Los Angeles Times, Sept 30, 2011
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-motorscience-20110930,0,49418.story
(MotorScience Inc. and its founder, Chi Zheng filed paperwork with the agency stating that recreational vehicles and engines "meet or exceed the minimum requirements" for federal air-quality-control emissions)

Note: For ATV, see, all-terrain vehicle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-terrain_vehicle

(2) Barbara Demick, China's Forbidden City Can't Keep Out Thieves or Scandals. Los Angeles Times, Sept 28, 2011
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-china-forbidden-city-20110928,0,421972.story
("Almost everything is painted a dusty hue of vermilion, and there is an air of faded grandeur about the place, with tall grass growing through cracks in the vast stone courtyards and yellow tile roofs")

Note:
(a) RUI Chenggang  芮 成钢
(b) Studio of Exhaustion from the Diligent Reign/Service  倦勤斋
(c)
(i) geomancy (n): "divination by means of figures or lines or geographic features"
(ii) -mancy (noun combining form; Greek -manteia, from mantis diviner, prophet — more at "praying mantis"): "divination <oneiromancy>"
www.m-w.com
(d) CUI Jinsheng  崔 金生
(e) PEI Guanghui   裴 光辉
(f) ZHENG Xinmiao  郑 欣淼


(3) David Pierson, China rejects U.S. complaint against chicken tariffs. Los Angeles Times, Sept 22, 2011
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/money_co/2011/09/china-rejects-us-complaint-against-chicken-tariffs.html
("By one estimate, Chinese consume three times as much pork as chicken at nearly 100 pounds per capita each year")

Note: The report cited
Austin Ramzy, Chicken Feet: A Symbol of U.S.-China Tension. Time, Feb 8, 2010.
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1960825,00.html
("In the U.S. poultry market, feet usually end up being ground into parts for feed. But they are a delicacy in China * * * In 2008 the U.S. exported $677 million worth of chicken to China, according to the USDA, a fraction of the total $36 billion U.S. poultry market. Roughly half of those exports were chicken feet, worth $0.60 to $0.80 per pound on the Chinese market but just pennies in the US")

(4) Emily Rome, California Theater Chain Plans to Expand, Teach Classes in China. Los Angeles Times, Sept 22, 2011.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2011/09/calif-theater-chain-aims-to-school-chinese-students-in-exhibtion.html.

Note:
(a) The XMUT in XMUT UltraStar Academy of Digital Cinema Management stands for
Xiamen University of Technology  厦门理工学院
www.xmut.edu.cn
(b)  Jimei District  集美区

(5) Chris Erskine, A Bit of Trojans Cultural Literacy in Football 101; Foreign-born USC students get a crash course in the big sport on campus. Los Angeles Times, Sept 22, 2011
http://www.latimes.com/sports/college/usc/la-sp-0922-erskine-football-101-20110922,0,7258143.column

Quote:

"This two-hour football primer is all part of making them feel at home, a voluntary pit stop in the Living in the United States series put on by the school.

"Muse Tan, a freshman psychology major from China, says the class helped clear up a lot of the questions she had after attending USC's season opener.

My comment: Quotation 2 is the only part that mentioned China. So you may want to skip this report.

(6) Barbara Demick, How China Kept Lid on Ramadan; In the aftermath of violent protests by Uighurs, a Muslim minority in China's far northwest, authorities deepened their campaign against religious practices. Los Angeles Times, Sept 12, 2011.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-china-muslims-20110912,0,4850941.story

Note:
(a) Eid al-Fitr
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eid_al-Fitr
(Eid is an Arabic word meaning "festivity," while Fiṭr means "breaking the fast")
(b) Id Kah Mosque  (喀什) 艾提尕尔清真寺
(c) Aksu prefecture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aksu_Prefecture
(阿克苏地区;  The name Aksu is Turkic for 'white water')


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