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The link between birds and dinosaurs has long been known, but recent fossil finds in China's Yixian province—an astonishing number in the last decade by the great paleontologist Xing Xu—have started turning birdwatchers into dinosaur watchers, waiting to see what new feathered species will be exhumed next.
Flocking Together Jonathan Rosen 2011
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Evidence from Yixian and other sites also suggests that feathers or pre-feathers were found not simply on petite proto-birds, but on theropods, the lumbering group whose members included Tyrannosaurus Rex, who may himself have had more feathers than a Vegas showgirl.
Flocking Together Jonathan Rosen 2011
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Lifestyle young couples good at cooking by Yixian Huang
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The golden-headed box turtle, or yellow-headed box turtle, (Cuora aurocapitata) is found in in Namling County, Yixian, Guande, Jingxian of China.
Archive 2007-06-01 2007
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Lifestyle young couples good at cooking by Yixian Huang
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That latter figure (the price of a single room at Yixian) is more than one fifth of China's average annual per capita income.
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Case in point is the Yixian Home for the Elderly in Shanghai's Changning district, which is filled to capacity with 300 residents and has 500 to 600 more on a waiting list.
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The claim to fame for Yixian, founded in 2003, is a system of Webcams, or "global eyes," mounted in public areas such as the restaurant, gym and leisure hall.
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The Yixian home hopes its computers will help residents as well.
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Yixian patients are charged between $183 — around the price of a normal nursing home, and the cost of a shared room at Yixian — and $422 per month.
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