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Until the Nineteen-Eighties, when Deng Xiaoping designated the area as China's first special economic zone, Shenzhen had been a tiny fishing village. Suddenly, eleven million people appeared, seemingly out of nowhere; factories sprang up, often housed in hastily constructed tower blocks. Michael Specter

People First Out Seemingly Constructed Economic Area Factories Had Tower Until Blocks Been Fishing Up Often Tiny China Special Village Appeared Suddenly Nowhere Eleven Million Million People Zone

It is a remarkable fact that smallpox, a scourge for thousands of years, has now vanished from the earth, except for two tiny vials, one locked in a highly secure facility at the Centers for Disease Control, in Atlanta, and another stored in a similarly secure vault in Siberia. Michael Specter

Control Earth Locked Secure Thousands Thousands Of Years Vanished Atlanta Similarly Facility Fact Except Remarkable Vault Smallpox Highly Another Years Scourge Disease Tiny Stored Centers Now Two Siberia

If I really like the smell of something - a piece of tar or my goddaughter's plastic doll - I put a tiny piece in a bottle with a label. I keep them in a fridge in my bathroom. Mika

Smell Bathroom Something Bottle Put Like Piece Doll Fridge Label Tar Tiny Them Really Plastic Keep

For the tiny percentage of people who are negatively affected by our embracing of standards, they can just get their sports somewhere else in the meantime. It's not like we're denying them hospital care. Mike Davidson

All Scandinavians feel a tiny bit self conscious, of which I'm one. Mike Leach

Bit Self Self-Conscious Feel Tiny Which Conscious

I think it's important that nobody forgets that although Hollywood commercially dominates the world cinema, in fact what comes out of the filmmaking here is only a tiny slice out of the massive amount of operation that goes on around the world. Mike Leigh

One might say that the novel is the genre that most predisposes one to a profound insight into the tremendous life around us, instead of putting forward one's own tiny ego as the centre of the universe. Mikhail Sholokhov

Life Ego Own Universe Tremendous Say Insight Instead Putting Most Genre Around Tiny Centre Might Us Forward Novel Profound

I majored in Shakespearean studies at a very tiny school in Georgia. Nancy Grace

School Shakespearean Studies Georgia Very Tiny

New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free? Nathan Myhrvold

You Business Job Free Looking Few Pay Classified Rate Online Steep Hawk Through Ads Stuff Over New Print Click Tap Tiny Want Formats Then Full Used Whole Garage Why Apply

Quite often, we're swamped with friends. My house is known as Hotel Morrissey, which is quite handy whenever I need dog-sitters for Tiggy. She's my tiny little rescue dog, the size of both of my feet put together. Neil Morrissey

The media was always so focused on the money a movie makes. But I was in Times Square, and a bunch of Japanese tourists looked at me and started shouting, 'Toula!' I loved it. It's these tiny moments of connection that register with me the most and always have. Nia Vardalos

As soon as I was old enough to drive, I got a job at a local newspaper. There was someone who influenced me. He wrote a column for The Guardian from this tiny village in India. Nicholas Kristof

'An Education' was a complicated piece of work because it came from a tiny essay, so it took me a while to find the story I wanted to tell and the characters I wanted to tell it about. That really only emerged after four or five drafts. Nick Hornby

Work Education Me Complicated Took Tell Characters Find Emerged About Only Piece Because Came Five Essay Tiny Wanted After Story While Really Four Drafts

For the first few years we lived in a tiny rented cottage at the bottom of a friend's garden. We often joked that there was plenty of film in the fridge, but not too much food! Nigel Dennis

Food Garden Too Much First Few Too Plenty Cottage Bottom Years Fridge Friend Often Tiny Much Lived Film

One of the most magical places on Earth is a small island in the Caribbean called Mustique. With brilliant beaches, warm water, and lush vegetation, this tiny green swath of land is my idea of paradise. Nina Garcia

Water Brilliant Paradise Caribbean Earth Magical Beaches Small Vegetation Idea Most Island Green Tiny Places Warm Land Lush

My daughter's still so tiny at the moment; she's just a sweet little meaty thing. But of course, you always think about what you want for them, don't you, and like any parent I want my children to be happy more than anything. Olivia Colman

You Be Happy Happy Daughter Sweet Think About Parent More More Than Anything Like She Course Always Still Than Any Tiny Just Children Want Anything Little Them Moment Thing

I like really tiny rings, midi rings, and little bracelets that have a charm on them. Olivia Holt

Rings Charm Like Tiny Little Them Really

Before the lipstick goes anywhere near the lips, I like to apply a tiny amount of foundation or concealer to create a really great base. This then makes it easier to guide the bullet of the lipstick along the lip outline. Pat McGrath

I finished college by July 15th, 1985, and by October 1985, I had a little stand during the trade show which was London Fashion week at the time. My stand was tiny - just 6 square meters in total - and I had my 12 shoes that I designed while in college. Patrick Cox

When I got out of school, I just started doing plays of the off-off-Broadway route, and for many years, that's what I did, slowly doing work in tiny theaters, building relationships with people in the business. It's not a showy story. Paul Sparks

I can't predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive - no more a great stack of manuscripts, letters, and notebooks from a writer's life, but only a tiny pile of disks, little plastic cookies where once were calligraphic marvels. Paul Theroux

Life Great Change Will Reading Predict Once Paper Say More Only Habits Writer Pile Greatest How Were Loss Stack Tiny Where Little Notebooks Cookies Manuscripts Plastic Letters

When I write about my childhood I think, oh my God, how did I ever get from there to here? Not that any great thing has happened to me. But I felt so tiny, so lost. Paul Theroux

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