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Like many of the oracular pronouncements of China's Communist Party, the arrest last week of Shanghai Party boss Chen Liangyu had multiple meanings. On one level, the purge of a prominent Politburo member-over allegations that Chen allowed associates to milk Shanghai's pension accounts to fund investments in the city's booming real estate-was widely seen as a political move by President Hu Jintao to consolidate power ahead of next year's Party Congress. On a second level, Chen's arrest, along with the news late last week that real estate speculation was also under scrutiny...
...North Rhine Westphalia, Germany, to recruit managers to coordinate stem-cell research and development so their economies can benefit from potential breakthroughs in the estimated $56 billion market for stem-cell biology and applications. "Almost every major city is trying to set up stem-cell work," says Una Chen, head of the Stem Cell Therapy Program at the University of Giessen in Germany. "It's a boom." So, for example, scientists in Sweden are studying how stem cells might be used to treat Parkinson's disease. A Belgian team is investigating whether they might be used to treat diabetes. Some...
...Ripples of Change in China Sorrow and rage grew in equal measure as I read Hannah Beech's unsettling account of the Chinese government's persecution of legal activist Chen Guangcheng [Sept. 4]. Disgust threatened to turn to despair. What hope is there for individuals like Chen, outgunned and outnumbered? But then I recalled the words that novelist Lu Xun wrote 85 years ago at the end of his short story My Old Home: "Hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth...
...strongly as he did, perhaps we would have reacted as Israel's army reservists did and demanded that he step down. Peace in the Middle East will come only when each side develops the ability to empathize with its leaders as well as its hated enemies. Hwun-Yee Chen San Francisco...
...taking the calendar and making the calendar work in our favor.” According to Director of Athletic Communications Chuck V. Sullivan, a committee is meeting frequently to address changes that will occur as a result of the building renovation. —Staff writer Elaine Chen can be reached at chen23@fas.harvard.edu...