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...According to Wang Ding, a researcher at the Wuhan Institute of Hydrobiology and a leading expert on the baiji, damming on the river and noise from heavy boat traffic may have disoriented the dolphins, which are mostly blind and search for food in the sandy shallows using sonar. The confused and starving animals may then have wandered into boat propellers. Heavy dredging in shipping channels could also have made it harder for the animals to locate each other and hunt for increasingly scarce fish. "Dredging is a very serious problem," Wang says. "It destroys spawning grounds of fish. There...
...being kidnapped. As paranoid as that might sound, in Yuan's case it is a well-founded concern. Her husband, Chen Guangcheng, a lawyer and activist, was himself kidnapped by policemen from his native Shandong province when he visited Beijing in June of 2005. Chen, who has been blind since birth, is now serving a four-year prison term in Shandong, having incurred the wrath of local authorities by publicizing the plight of women forced to undergo abortions and sterilizations...
...monthly visit on June 19, he still had bruises all over his body and couldn't walk upright because of blows he had received to his side, she said. "There are other people in jail who deserve attention, but Chen's case is very unusual because he is blind, and it is so clear he was imprisoned unjustly," Yuan said...
...Untapped Potential While it is fascinating to see touch-screen technology used in the iPhone and other devices [June 25-July 2], a part of the population is greeting it with much distress: people who are blind. Equipping appliances such as microwaves and washing machines-not to mention voting machines-with touch screens will cause a "one step forward, two steps back" situation. If designers can figure out a way to not leave the blind behind, we can truly celebrate the technology of touch. Thomas J. Murphy, Bridgeport, Connecticut...
...France that Sego could never come up with," says a Socialist party member who opposes what he calls a "depressingly feasible" Royal leadership if DSK moves to Washington to lead the IMF. "No one disagrees that Strauss-Kahn is right for job, but you'd have to be blind not to see that his exit from the domestic scene is in Sarko's political interests. More Sego and less DSK means better chances for a Sarkozy re-election...