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...York, the victory of Annise Parker, who is in a committed relationship with two children, was a welcome, if puzzling, achievement for advocates of gay rights. The mayor-elect's photograph, showing her smiling sweetly and looking like Barbara Bush, was plastered everywhere from the Drudge Report to China's Xinhua news service, shattering all manner of clichés about Texas, lesbians and politics in the Old South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Houston's Gay Mayor Means for Texas | 12/16/2009 | See Source »

...After years of living abroad, I often have my doubts, confusions and a sense of loss. I feel somewhat disconnected from my motherland, China, where I spent 20 years growing up. I believe that the Chinese diaspora all have the same feeling at some point. This insightful and well-researched article is not only learning material for other countries, but also a reminder to us Chinese expatriates of where we came from, what changes are taking place in our mother country and, most importantly, who we truly are. Yang Yang Singapore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 12/14/2009 | See Source »

...What They're Opening in China: For a country that censors reports on the scope of its HIV/AIDS crisis and until 2001 deemed homosexuality a mental illness, China's announcement on World AIDS Day that it would open its first state-sanctioned gay bar came as a shock--especially after officials divulged that $18,000 in public funds would be used to create a lounge that would offer free condoms and lectures on safe sex. The bar in Yunnan province--a region that contains nearly a quarter of China's reported HIV and AIDS cases--was set to open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 12/14/2009 | See Source »

...while Yang distanced himself from China's power struggles, he couldn't escape the chaos and cruelty of his era. His son killed himself in 1979 after being sent to work in a factory while his parents were jailed. Yang later denounced the Tiananmen crackdown of 1989. The authorities, perhaps more worried about student activists than septuagenarian scholars, declined to put him back behind bars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yang Xianyi | 12/14/2009 | See Source »

...don’t think it hurts to be too cautious,” said Yuying Luo ’12, who will be traveling in China for three weeks. Luo said she is scheduled to receive an H1N1 vaccination...

Author: By Helen X. Yang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Poll Shows Travellers More Mindful of H1N1 | 12/14/2009 | See Source »

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