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Among the students was Amy K. Bei ’03, a doctorate candidate at the School of Public Health who spent a year in Tanzania, where she developed a method for conducting reverse genetics in the human erythrocyte...

Author: By Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Experts Talk Global Health | 4/27/2010 | See Source »

...popularity, since it was first used on Chinese blogs to describe court cases in which suspects were found to have committed suicide under unlikely conditions, probably killed by police or other inmates. Such a suspect was, police said, "suicided." And there are now many variations on the phrase, like bei hexie, which means "to be harmonized" (a critical take on Hu's vision of a harmonious society): "My website was harmonized" is a way of saying it was shut down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hu's Visit: Finding a Way Forward on U.S.-China Relations | 4/8/2010 | See Source »

...Bei-root...

Author: By Michelle B. Timmerman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 List: Garden Names | 4/1/2010 | See Source »

Discarded ping pong balls from the Phoenix and the Fly will be given ground to grow into bei-roots...

Author: By Michelle B. Timmerman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 List: Garden Names | 4/1/2010 | See Source »

...statement that China wouldn't be lectured on democracy, Boos wrote on the fair's website that "the Frankfurt Book Fair is not offering instruction in democracy, to be sure, but it is democracy in action." Soon after, project manager Peter Ripken was fired, apparently for blocking Dai and Bei from speaking at the closing ceremony, Deutsche Welle reported. Ripken responded that he had been acting on instructions from Germany's Foreign Ministry. The Frankfurt hosts' struggle not to offend the sensitivities of their Chinese guests while not compromising the ideals of the event is a recurring theme across...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Troubled Coming-Out at Book Fair | 10/20/2009 | See Source »

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