Word: communist
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...Communist Party bureaucracy, however, doesn't seem to have caught up with the new law. Despite laxer regulation, the career advancement of local leaders, especially in rural areas, still often depends on keeping birthrates low. "One set of bad population figures can stop an official from getting promoted," says Tu Bisheng, a Beijing legal activist who has helped document abuses related to the one-child policy...
...during China's Cultural Revolution, Pingsha Dong, originally from Dalian, was transplanted for re-education into the hinterland, where the schools reduced the curriculum to communist rote. Before he left, his father told him that no matter what the risk, "you need to learn." So, after 16 hours in the field each day, Dong stole away at night with a kerosene lamp to pore over two math and physics books his father had salvaged for him. Eventually the authorities caught on to Dong's reading, but since he disguised his books to resemble Mao's Little Red Book, they praised...
...MONGOLIA Communist-era neglect was good for Mongolia's rivers: they're some of the world's cleanest and home to the taimen, the largest salmonid in the world, which can grow up to nearly 2 m in length and weigh up to 70 kg. You'll need a nap in your yurt after trying to land one of these monsters, but don't think about fish steak?it's all about catch and release. Contact the Association of Mongolia Angling Guides at info@taimen.mn...
...daughter of a Protestant minister, Merkel was born in Hamburg and grew up in the East German resort town of Templin. She joined the Young Pioneers, a communist youth group, but focused mainly on her studies. At home, her family talked politics nonstop, but, she said in her autobiography, "it was completely theoretical because we could not change anything." After studying physics at Leipzig University, she began looking for work. Applying for a job at a technical institute, she was approached by the secret police to spy on colleagues. She says she begged off, telling them she couldn't keep...
...MONGOLIA Communist-era neglect was good for Mongolia's rivers: they're some of the world's cleanest and home to the taimen, the largest salmonid in the world, which can grow up to nearly 2 m in length and weigh up to 70 kg. You'll need a nap in your yurt after trying to land one of these monsters, but don't think about fish steak?it's all about catch and release. Contact the Association of Mongolia Angling Guides at info@taimen.mn...