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...aides, he was so moved by it that he has since pushed several of his senior foreign-policy advisers to read it. First published in English in 2001, Aquariums is a coming-of-age tale of almost unimaginable misery. Kang, now a 36-year-old journalist and human-rights activist in Seoul, was incarcerated at age 9 after his wealthy grandfather ran afoul of the regime; in 1977 the family was thrown into Yodok, an isolated work camp for political prisoners, and Kang spent the next 10 years there. His book recalls occasional moments of childhood normality?Kang played...
They gathered by a grave tucked into fields of yellow rape flowers high in the Himalayan foothills. There, a dozen-odd guardians of China's last free-flowing rivers unveiled a memorial to a fallen comrade, an activist who had died of a heart attack in January. But their mission had another motive. Following the ceremony, they traveled into remote regions of Yunnan province to gauge opposition to a spate of new dam projects and offer assistance to vulnerable peasants trying to stop them from being built. This wasn't a secret trip. Plainclothes police videotaped everything. Undeterred, the outsiders...
...activists succeed, they might not have to. The visitors at the graveside included leaders of Beijing environmental groups, reporters from national newspapers and a film crew. Together they make up a loose network opposed to what they consider the devastation of natural resources in a part of the country where snowmelt from the Himalayas irrigates rivers throughout China and Southeast Asia. Already the network has helped delay approval of two impoundments on the upper Yangtze and Salween rivers. Yet in taking on state-run companies and political interests, the environmentalists face daunting odds. Says activist Xue Ye of the Beijing...
...under construction, will turn the middle of the Yangtze into a lake half the length of California and force 1.5 million people to relocate. Since the dam was conceived as a monument to Communist Party power, opponents were branded as dissidents. Reforms have changed that. "The government sees activist groups as less of a threat now," says Fu Tao, of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. "With China calling for an environmentally friendly Olympics in 2008, it's even promised to give them a voice...
...candidates are actively courting conservative activists. Karen Testerman, executive director of Cornerstone Policy Research, a conservative group based in Concord, New Hampshire has already met Brownback and Frist personally. "The race is definitely on here," she says. Paul Weyrich, a leading conservative activist who heads the D.C. based Free Congress Foundation, says two of the potential candidates have already asked him for his endorsement, although he declined to name them...