There were five people in the Quirinal bar after dinner, a high-class Italian frail who sat on a stool making persistent conversation against the bartender's bored: “Si … Si … Si,” a light, snobbish Egyptian who was lonely but chary of the woman, and the two Americans.

[…] spearing the wild turkeys gossiping stupidly in a line along the branches, flushing the partridges, wing-shooting as they upwhirred […]

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In Luanchuan County, Henan Province, for example, people subsist on 0.052 ha per capita. Government subsidies and cheap loans for agriculture are the only vehicles to keep the area afloat. Annual per capita income is approximately RMB 230 yuan. One of the three largest mines in the world—the Luanchuan molybdenum, lead, and zinc mine—attracted a deluge of miners.