New York Times, Jan 27, 2013 (Sunday)

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(1) 杰安迪, 循着总书记的足迹下乡扶贫. 纽约时报中文网, Jan 28, 2013.
http://cn.nytimes.com/article/china/2013/01/28/c28hebei/

, which is translated from

Andrew Jacobs, Leader’s Visit Lifts a Village, Yet Lays Bare China’s Woes. NYTimes, Jan 27, 2013.

Quote:

"The average per capita income here [Luotwowan], about $160 a year, is less than half the official threshold for poverty, and it is a tiny fraction of the average urban income of slightly less than $4,000. Most young people have long since fled for jobs in distant cities.

"Mr Xi’s arrival here in late December appears to have been relatively impromptu. Mr [farmer] Tang said he got only a half-hour warning that China’s most powerful official was arriving, although the village party chief, Gu Rongjin, said he had a week’s notice.

Note: Luotuowan 河北省保定市阜平县龙泉关镇 骆驼湾村


(2) Chris Anderson, Mexico: The New China; South of the border, there's a better form of outsourcing--quicksourcing.
(Today, what Shenzhen is to Hong Kong, Tijuana is becoming to San Diego")

Note:
(a) Tijuana
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tijuana
(section 1 Etymology)

(3) Pagan Kennedy, Who Made That? ( Military dog tag)
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/2 ... litary-dog-tag.html
("During the Civil War, more than a quarter of dead soldiers remained unidentified. * * * 'Soldiers did a lot to try to be identified,” says Luther Hanson, curator at the US Army Quartermaster Museum")

Note:
(a) Army Quartermaster Museum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_Quartermaster_Museum
(b) Quartermaster (n; quarter + master):
"a commissioned officer of the US Army Quartermaster Corps: a commissioned officer whose duty is to provide clothing and subsitence for a body of troops"
Webster's Third New International Dictionary, 1961

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(2) Chris Anderson, Mexico: The New China; South of the border, there's a better form of outsourcing--quicksourcing.  (published in the Sunday section This Week in Review)
("Today, what Shenzhen is to Hong Kong, Tijuana is becoming to San Diego")

is now translated:

克里斯·安德森, 墨西哥，下一个中国. 纽约时报中文网, Jan 30, 2013 (观点)
http://cn.nytimes.com/article/opinion/2013/01/30/c30tijuana/