I've read in Time Magazine that Yao Ming was actually designed and planned by China.?
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No AND he hated basketball until his late teens...probably when he found out how much money he could make in the NBA...
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DUNNRO1 has it right, the majority of the westerrn half of CHINA is nearly uninhabitable.  It is certainly not practical terrain for metropolitan commerce.  Therefore there is no need to split the timezones up to accomodate modern businesses that don't exist.  The farmers and ranchers that live out there probably do not own a watch or a clock and would not benefit from having their own time zone.\nConversely, the US has metropolitan areas in every time zone here, so it is necessary to keep them separate.\n\nDA_DA_DA answered the rest of it, what few advantages maybe gained from it are NOT nearly worth it.
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i think he's great, in my opinion he's better than O'neil. i also think he will have a great career and he will become one of the top centers of all time. Wallace and Ming Yao (Yao Ming in america) are the best centers right now.
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i know in basketball, it's Yao Ming.\nlol\ni dont know the world records\nsorry!!!
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Probably more than we could count. China is a huge country, each place developedit's own style. There are undoubtedly styles No on in the west has even heard of since they are only practiced in remote villages.
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no way, it was the chinese. thing with the beads.
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That's why evolution is so bull. Chinese history has been 6000-4000 years and NOTHING HAS CHANGED! We didn't grow a tail or an extra finger, nor lose any body parts. It's all Western propaganda trying to brainwash the rest of the world.
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WHAT!?...[rolls eyes]...  Oh, please!!!\n\nEveryone knows that God hasn't had to do his own laundry since the Chinese Civil War (how else is he going to keep those 2,000,000+ Chinese souls busy?)*.\n\nI wonder what the clouds  would look like 'starched and pressed'?...  I mean, would we lie on the ground and look up at them and try imagine what Picasso painting they most resembled?\n\n\n[*Okay, I can hear some of you, already!:  It's a joke, man!...  Lighten up!]
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this must be abeer khan itself who is asking this...\nso that we go to visit his (greatly designed site)
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well he is rich now and a star in china... but for all the guys that ont make it big but went though the same thing as Yao it would be unfair... but in like 15-20 years i wold say there is going to be huge increase in Asian players because they are being "bred" for basketball
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I think China will do exactly as it's told by the West or their economy will not grow.\n\nThere's a Disney Land in China 4 heavens sake!
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Its possible, China's record on human rights is appalling.  The trade in human organs has been happening for years I'm afraid to say.  Often its impoverished locals who are persuaded to sell their organs to tourists who come to the country for transplant.  It happens in India so it may well be happening in China too.
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Did you mean TANGRAMS? I found some on that subject\n\nThe invention of the tangram puzzle is unrecorded in history. The earliest known Chinese book is dated 1813 but the puzzle was very old by then. One reason for this could be that in China, its country of origin, at the time it was considered a game for women and children. This would have made it unworthy of "serious" study and unlikely to be written about. Different times, different ways of thinking. Glad that's changing. \n\nThe roots of the word Tangram are also shrouded in time, with a number of possible explanations. The one I like best involves the Tanka people. These river people of China were great traders who were involved in the opium trade. The western sailors they traded opium with likely played with the puzzle when they visited their Tanka girlfriends. The story I believe is that it comes from the obsolete English word "tramgram" meaning puzzle or trinket. You can learn a bit more at the Online Etymology Dictionary A fun place, by the way, if you like words.\n\nTangrams enjoyed a surge of interest during the 19th century in Europe and America. This, no doubt, was due to the opening up of trade with China and the aforementioned sailors bringing home new found amusements. "The Chinese Puzzle" spawned a flood of books and picture card sets. Some quite elaborate Chinese examples exist with pieces carved from and/or inlaid with ivory, jade and other fine materials. Others were cheap, locally made copies in wood or fired clay. Some books blindly reproduced previous mistakes in the patterns. Some things never change.\n\nIn 1903, Sam Loyd wrote his great spoof of tangram history,The Eighth Book Of Tan.He had many people convinced that the game was invented 4000 years ago by the god Tan. According to Loyd, the first 7 Books Of Tan were linked with many famous people and historical events. All very convincing and it made Sam a lot of money. Later examination showed it to be a colossal joke. The book did catalog over 600 patterns, many by Loyd himself. He also introduced (along with H. F. Dudeney) the idea of paradoxes\n\nFu Tsiang Wang and Chuan-chin Hsiung mathematically proved in 1942 the existance of a finite set of patterns referred to as "convex." In this context, it means that there are no indentations along the outside edge. There are only 13 silhouettes that qualify. Other finite sets may exist.\n\nTangrams continue to entertain and frustrate now days. The puzzle attracts people on a number of levels. It's simplicity makes it accessible to a broad spectrum of people. The figures spark visually inclined people though their form, liveliness and striking simplicity. Many of the designs are adaptable to quilting, applique and many other artistic or craft projects. Storytellers can weave a tale with many characters and objects using only the seven tans.\n\nIt interests the math inclined with the geometry and ratios of the pieces. You find them used in classrooms around the world to teach basic math ideas in an interesting way. The Dr. Schaffer & Mr. Stern Dance Ensemble (MathDance) has taken it a step further with a dance using over-sized tangram pieces! They've even been used as the model for a designer table by Massimo Morozzi and an interactive art instalation by Daniele Lago \n\nIt is one of the classic puzzles, appealing to young and old, the serious and the carefree. \n\nThe Rules\nSimple really, which is one of its attractions. The classic rules are as follows: You must use all seven tans, they must lay flat, they must touch and none may overlap. Feel free to break away from the "rules", though. See the donation page for some wonderful "unruly" figures. Attempt the patterns you find here, race with other people to complete a figure or play with the pieces to come up with your own creations.
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30 more years. China, or else a conglomerate of Asian or Middle Eastern states.
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China is definitely up and coming and is already one of the major players in the world strategy game. Whether it will be the only player, only time will tell. \n\nSomeone once asked Deng Xiaoping whether democracy has proven to be a superior system of government. He answered: "it is too early to tell as it has only been in exsitence for about 500 years". \n\nWhether China wants to be a world superpower is another story - not everyone wants to be able to project its power even though it has it. Throughout history, China has not expanded outside its borders since historical times even though it had the means to do so. It used to use bribery to improve relations and trade rather than invading and colonising any other country.
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China, in fact there was a recent study that shows china will be using more then the resources that are being made right now.  it will happen sometime in the next couple decades.
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No, It is not.\n\nI think, China have to spending about 50 years for go to that situation.\n\nbecause source of super power are described below.\n\n1. Monetary - China never control the money because they never established the World Bank, IMF, WTO.  You know? Who can make money same as a Bank then they have the power.  The Dollars still exchange in the Wolrd not a China currency.\n\n2. Goverment Power - China only 1 seat in Security Council of United Nation.  They can only veto but cannot do better because China never established The United Nation.\n\n3. Business Monopolization - China still cannot control these business such as bomber plane industry, battle ship industry, hi-tech industry etc, the western still control a major market share of these business.\n\n4. Knowledge - China have so many scientist and engineering, most of them graduated from United State, but China have a few national laboratorys.\n\n5. Media - China never control a global media because their media talk by using Chinese language not an English so World's citizens still cannot receive all of information from their media.\n\n6. Image - Because They don't have a global media so they cannot build their image too.\n\n7. Network - In the breif of China's history, they always stand alone, they like to close his country and don't need to participate with other country, just 1945 they open their country so their network just improve.\n\n8. Power - China's military power still low if we compare with United State and Russian, they have a few ICBM, nuclear war head, nuclear submarine, nuclear bomber, military satelitte and so on.\n\nSo I think 5 years are few times to let China as super power