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...There had been a high-profile and wealthy Jewish community in Shanghai since the mid-19th century, but the Russian pogroms and World War II swelled its ranks with refugees lured by Shanghai's policy of visa-free access. The Japanese occupation of parts of the city from 1937 led to the creation of a Jewish ghetto in the Hongkou district as the Japanese sought to appease their Nazi allies. But while ghetto life was difficult, the refugees were able to establish synagogues, as well as schools, newspapers and even theaters. Most importantly, nearly all of the Shanghai Jews survived...
...just as well that pop culture doesn't want to take on China, given its history of cold war demonization and Charlie Chan caricatures. But the news media covering the Olympics don't have the luxury of ignoring it. Broadcasters have found their access restricted by China, which promised freedom to get the Games but is under scrutiny over Tibet, Darfur and internal human rights. Beijing is keeping Tiananmen Square, site of 1989's democracy protests, off limits to live TV for 18 hours...
...WEIDE, chief spokesman for the Beijing Olympics organizing committee, on restricting press access to certain overseas Internet sites despite earlier claims that the media would not be censored...
That's the closest most of them will come to seeing the Olympics in person. "We have no access to tickets," says Feng. "And even if we did, we couldn't afford them." An Olympic slogan repeated on billboards throughout the city reads I PARTICIPATE; I CONTRIBUTE; I'M HAPPY. After months of participating and contributing, the people in this corner of the capital will have to be happy catching the Games, as the rest of the world does, at home on television...
...point. Recent data from the Harvard School of Public Health's College Alcohol study, which surveyed more than 50,000 students at 120 colleges, show that binge-drinking habits vary widely from campus to campus. Kids tend to party hardest at schools with few official alcohol-control policies, easy access to alcohol and strong drinking cultures...