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...anyone who has followed China, it's an incredible scene. Not long ago, it would have been unimaginable for Wang to so openly criticize the government or to arm herself with the law--and all while sipping a cappuccino. True, Wang hasn't found justice yet. But compared with the repression of the past, when complainers went to jail and the Communist Party controlled every aspect of life, China can be exhilaratingly free. The Chinese can do virtually anything today, from finding a job to singing karaoke in sparkling brothels to organizing to protect the environment. If you stood...
...food markets. But reforms have also caused food prices to soar. The price of rice has doubled in the past year, putting it out of reach of most families. Millions of urban North Koreans have reportedly been sent into the countryside to help with spring planting. Pyongyang's propaganda arm recently released photos showing military officers standing beside rice paddies in which volunteer field laborers toiled. Messages exhorting citizens to donate night soil blare from loudspeakers on trucks that drive around cities and towns. The country desperately needs fertilizer to maximize yields, but nobody can meet the unrealistic human-waste...
...limitation is the number of guards. The total protecting the nation's nuclear plants is 8,000, according to the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), the industry's lobbying arm. Numbers at specific locations aren't available, but that works out to roughly 80 per reactor. Broken down into four shifts, that's an average of 20 guards available to work at any one time. U.S. security officials at the Pentagon and the DOE say that is too small a number to take on a motivated group of suicidal terrorists who probably would be outfitted with weapons deadlier than the rifles...
Representative Shays has ordered Congress's investigative arm, the Government Accountability Office, to find out why the revised DBT is so small. Shays, who chairs the House Reform Committee's panel on national security and emerging threats, told TIME he believes the DBT is "artificially low" because of economic pressures. "Rather than asking what security do we need, plant operators are asking how much security can we afford," he said...
...Lose an arm or your legs, or the use of your spine, and it's awful. But for many quadriplegics, there's still lots left: heart, guts and competitive instinct. The boldest among them engage in a fearsome sport called quad rugby--or murderball. Strapped into supercharged Mad Max wheelchairs, two teams of four players bang metal and fight like hell. The goal, says one: "Kill the man with the ball...