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...GistThere are 60 million of them, and they make everything from the sneakers on our feet to the mobile phones we carry. But to most of the world, China's legions of migrant factory workers are faceless, the interchangeable gears whose revolutions drive the global economy. Chang, a journalist at the Wall Street Journal, spent two years reporting in the gritty southern boomtown of Dongguuan trying to put human faces on these workers, and the ones she finds are extraordinary: overwhelmingly female, jarringly young and driven as much by the desire to see the world beyond their village...
...Crimson’s defensive effort will focus on midfielder Lena Russomagno, forward Brook Chang, and defender Cristina Law. The trio has scored six out of the seven team goals for Cornell this season...
...Last fall China launched the unmanned Chang'e lunar probe. The next steps for the lunar program are a soft landing with a moon rover slated for 2012 and launching another rover and returning with samples in 2017. While there have been declarations by some space officials of when China could put a man on the moon - Ouyang Ziyuan, the chief scientist of China's Chang'e lunar probe, once said 2017; the deputy head of the Shenzhou program said 2020 - there is no official timetable. The U.S., the only nation to land astronauts on the moon, says it hopes...
...news is that North Korea is again struggling with food shortages and possible famine, a problem that could worsen if Kim is debilitated. "When it comes to allocation of resources, Kim is the one who decides," says Cheong Seong Chang, director of Inter-Korean Relations Studies at the Sejong Institute near Seoul. "Now, different players may try to grab a bigger piece of the limited resources." The ironic result: without Kim, "the food situation for the North Korean people will get worse, heightening the crisis from within...
...news is, North Korea is again struggling with food shortages and possible famine, a problem that could worsen if Kim is debilitated. "When it comes to allocation of resources, Kim is the one who decides," says Cheong Seong-Chang, director of Inter-Korean Relations Studies at the Sejong Institute. "Now, different players may try to grab a bigger piece of the limited resources." The ironic result: Without Kim, "the food situation for the North Korean people will get worse, heightening the crisis from within...