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Posted on 03/07/07

The face of Chinese cost-cutting

HARBIN, CHINA -- Liu Sichen was a normal little girl in a Chinese kindergarten. She played the piano and danced and painted. She dreamed of being a star on television.From her small home by the railway tracks, she gazed up longingly at the vapour trails of the passing jets. She told her mother that some day, she would become an astronaut.

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