By cutting the amount of land used for building homes or factories and converting it into new farmland, villages can gain credits known as dipiao, or land tickets.
If I ruled the world I'd give every child in the land tickets to a Christmas show.
Even in its second weekend, with Twitter, Facebook and Instagram already sagging under the weight of the previous week's #Coachella postings (and, more likely than not a ton of Tinder hookups too), the fest is still a vibe, the celebration of an ideal, not just for schmucks who couldn't land tickets to Weekend 1.
Placing an order on the Web site (the deadline is April 30), however, is no guarantee of landing tickets.
Festivalgoers from around the country are distressed about recent problems that left thousands of veteran Burners, as festival attendees are called, without tickets to the August event and might have landed tickets in the hands of scalpers.
Some will have planned itineraries, others will have taken pot luck on the official website and landed tickets for a whole variety of non-England games; in between they are following England when and however they can.
More than a few of those who came beat a hasty retreat after the music started, including a young Swiss composer and his German date, who, when I asked what they were doing there, said they had landed tickets at the last minute from the tourist office after pleading that they hadn't anything better to do with themselves that night.
For something a bit traditional: If you want to hear as much of Ulysses as possible, see if you can land a ticket to the 30th Annual Bloomsday on Broadway at Symphony Space, a nearly twelve-hour staged reading of parts of all eighteen sections of the novel.
Even if London does receive a bounty of Olympics tourists they will all be flying in during peak season clutching return tickets, putting pressure on flights and land travel tickets from the UK to destinations around the world.
