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...like rock stars—students in the audience cheering and whistling as they were introduced. Many had faced long waits in the line that had begun snaking its way from Memorial Hall to the front of the Science Center almost two hours beforehand. Hundreds more had been turned away when the spacious hall reached capacity...
...community service, learning leadership skills, or building social networks. This tradition was so strong that even Mao could not dismantle it: although Confucius was denounced and the Gaokao suspended for ten years during the Cultural Revolution, the ancient educational philosophy focusing on the teaching of knowledge never really went away...
...Hytten faults inadequate support and training for child-protection staff as the problem, not the concept itself. "You have the least experienced staff on the front line, and they are often overwhelmed by the complexity and highly charged emotional situations in which they have to work; taking a child away from their family is never easy, but sometimes, for the safety of the child, where no better options exist, it has to be done." (See pictures of dust storms in Australia...
...deeper meaning," says Joshua Rosenzweig, a Hong Kong-based researcher for the Dui Hua Foundation, a human-rights group. "Certainly looking at it from the outside, at case after case of heavy sentences being handed down for things that should be constitutionally protected rights, it's hard to come away from this and not see a hardening line." (See pictures of the making of modern China...
...January 2009, after years of monitoring and harassment led Gao's teenage daughter to attempt suicide, his family decided to flee. Gao's wife Geng He took their daughter and infant son and slipped away from their official minders in Beijing. They traveled south, aided by a network of Falun Gong practitioners, and eventually crossed into Burma and then Thailand. Two months later they reached the U.S., where they were given political asylum. On the first anniversary of Gao's disappearance, Geng demanded that the Chinese government produce her husband. So far her cries have been met with disdain...