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- Blue River posted on 07/10/2007
- Blue River posted on 06/08/2007Thirty-one dirty and disorientated workers have been rescued from a brickwork factory in China, where they were being held as virtual slaves. Eight workers were so traumatised by their experiences that they were only able to remember their names. The labourers had to work unpaid for 20 hours at a time, and were only given bread and water in return. The brickworks, in the poor inland province of Shanxi, is owned by the son of the local Communist Party secretary. Local police told the BB
- Blue River posted on 11/09/2006While the U.S. wakes up to a new political reality after the election yesterday, China likely will also face a new international economic environment. =================== From Slate.com The Lou Dobbs Democrats Say hello to the new economic nationalists. By Jacob Weisberg Updated Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2006, at 7:59 PM ET The bums, or at least many of them, have been thrown out. And so the political conversation turns naturally to the question of what the Democrats will do now that they again share
- Blue River posted on 08/29/2006An article from New Yorker. One of the authors (Sylvia Nasar) also wrote "A Beautiful Mind". MANIFOLD DESTINY by SYLVIA NASAR AND DAVID GRUBER A legendary problem and the battle over who solved it. Issue of 2006-08-28 Posted 2006-08-21 On the evening of June 20th, several hundred physicists, including a Nobel laureate, assembled in an auditorium at the Friendship Hotel in Beijing for a lecture by the Chinese mathematician Shing-Tung Yau. In the late nineteen-seventies, when Yau was in his t
- Blue River posted on 03/02/2006MacBush The neoconservative tragedy. By Jacob Weisberg As Iraq continues to deteriorate under American occupation¡ªthe question of the week is whether it can avoid full-blown civil war¡ªthe issue of how we got into this mess presses ever more urgently. A number of instant histories and inside accounts of the Bush administration's decision-making have already been published. But it is a book with no original reporting whatsoever that does the best job of explaining why the disaster unfolded in the way
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