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...IRIS CHANG, who died last week of an apparent suicide, once asked a profound question: How could a brutal massacre in a Chinese city in World War II, in which the Japanese army killed thousands of people?a death toll possibly even higher than that of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?have been relegated to a historical footnote? Driven to find the answer, Chang wrote The Rape of Nanking, a landmark work of history that helped push the 1937 bloodbath into the public's consciousness and the then-29-year-old American to the forefront of nonfiction writing...
Freshman Amanda Slaight also went on to lead a 1-2 win for Harvard in her first collegiate race, taking first place in her signature event, the 100-yard breaststroke just 0.25 seconds ahead of last year’s standout freshman, LeeAnn Chang...
...DIED.IRIS CHANG, 36, American historian whose 1997 best seller The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II chronicled the grisly rape, torture and murder of hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians by Japanese soldiers in the former Chinese capital in the late 1930s; of suicide; near Los Gatos, California. Chang, whose book was the first full-length nonfiction account of the brutality, said, "I didn't care if I made a cent from it. I wrote it out of a sense of rage." She was hospitalized for depression earlier this year as she was researching her fourth...
...Chinese policy of pegging its currency, the renminbi, to the U.S. dollar. The Bush Administration has criticized Beijing for keeping its currency artificially undervalued, making Chinese-made products more competitive and investment in China more attractive. "The buildup of the deficit with China is becoming very serious," says Charles Chang, managing partner of investment consulting firm Accolade Inc. in Seoul. "The next President has to continue the effort to relax control of the renminbi...
...became suspicious in 1997 when a swab at a research reactor near Seoul picked up traces of plutonium that shouldn't have been there. For years, Seoul offered no explanation, saying the paperwork had been lost. Finally, in September, the president of the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI), Chang In Soon, said the traces were residual material from a "one-off test" in which fuel was taken from a reactor and dissolved in chemicals, allowing the plutonium it contained to be extracted. A confidential Ministry of Science and Technology report obtained by TIME states that five fuel rods were...