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...during the Japanese occupation. In fact, much of Mo Yan's fiction - from the 1996 epic he describes as his magnum opus, Big Breasts and Wide Hips, to Frog, published at the end of 2009 - is set in a world seemingly remote to the 350 million or so Chinese born after 1980 and the start of Deng Xiaoping's reformist policies. They also happen to be China's most voracious readers, judging by the way in which books targeting this youthful demographic dominate the best-seller lists. (See top 10 friction books...
...Parliament but make up a single London borough council - have witnessed rapid demographic change since the last national census, in 2001. At the time, 80% of locals identified themselves as "white - British." There's been a big influx of nonwhite families since then, with many blacks and Asians - British-born as well as new immigrants - looking for cheap housing. "There's a sense of competition for finite resources," says Jon Cruddas, Dagenham's MP and a Labour Party member. "These are generic forces, but they collide in an intense form here." (See pictures of 20th Century Britain...
...margins, not least on fears of the youthful opposition team's collective inexperience. There's another factor that counts against them: the Conservatives have traditionally been seen as the party of the rich, and few Brits are feeling flush. Moreover, Cameron and many among his front-bench team were born to wealth and privilege. Voters wonder if they can understand the concerns of ordinary folk...
Guan, a resident of Eliot House from Florida, was born in China and has lived in four countries to date because of her mother’s occupation. The summer before starting her job at the Liu laboratory, Guan attended the International Genetically Engineered Machine competition (iGEM), in which student teams design and create biological systems in living cells. David Thompson, the graduate student who is currently running the project Guan is working on, happened to be the teaching fellow working with Guan’s group at iGEM...
...we’re in middle age now, this star was born when the universe was basically a toddler,” said Evan N. Kirby, a researcher at California Institute of Technology and one of the authors...