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...China looks to clean Beijing??s notoriously polluted air for the 2008 Summer Olympics, a soon-to-be-released study by Harvard researchers has determined that restricting vehicles in China’s capital is a surprisingly effective and fast-acting way to reduce air pollution. The study, conducted by a professor and two post-doctoral fellows at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, used satellite data to examine the effects of a three-day limit on vehicle traffic in Beijing during the November 2006 Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation...
...BEIJING??Three objects sit on my desk: a Chinese-English dictionary, a lamp, and my computer. For anyone who knows me, this is an anomaly in the extreme. I have an innate incapability to have a clean desk; one memorable winter, I lost my ID twice under the stacks of papers and books that inevitably cover it by mid-semester. Yet it’s almost halfway through the summer semester here at Beijing Language and Culture University, and my tabletop remains freakishly clean. Ostensibly, my monkish existence has a single purpose: learn Mandarin. To this...
...It’s tempting to point our democratic finger at Big Bad Red China, especially since they often make it so easy. After all, this is the country whose government plans to shut down Beijing??s factories for a month to stop the omnipresent smog for the 2008 Olympics, and who issued a law governing the amount of hours their citizens can play online videogames...
...said Zhongyuan “Julian” Han ’07, who was born and raised in Shanghai. Han noted that Fudan is a good school with a strong emphasis on education, and is ranked among the top three universities in mainland China, along with Beijing??s Beida and Qinghua Universities. But he said Fudan was “not yet at the level of Harvard. I think it’s probably at the level of Yale in the U.S.” Megan E. Camm ’07, who participated in the Harvard...
SICA also arranged for delegates to speak to members of the ministry of health regarding the AIDS problem in China and to visit Beijing??s Zhongguancun Hi-tech Park as well as some non-governmental organizations...