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Until the night of June 3, 1989, Ding Zilin and her associates considered themselves ordinary mothers. But that was the night the Chinese government ordered its military to fire on civilians in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. Ding's 17-year-old son, Jiang Jielian, was shot and killed while crouching behind a rosebush. After that night, motherhood and massacre became inseparable for Ding and others like her. They banded together and called themselves Tiananmen Mothers...
With the foam and the bolts moving down the list of likely causes, a meteor hit moved up. Few people suggest that a cataclysmic collision simply blew the ship out of the sky--not so low in the atmosphere, anyway. But up in orbit, a bad ding by a rogue rock could have done enough damage to cause serious drag as the ship descended through the atmosphere, and Columbia indeed heeled sharply to the left before it disintegrated. Pits and gouges in the protective tiles are common during flight; ships routinely pick up close to 100 of them...
...could write a theoretical account of what we do and include it in our liner notes, bombard people with claims that ‘in seeking to amplify the object I’m participating in the Western philosophical tradition of searching for the ding an sich,’ but I don’t think it would make the beats any funkier or the song any better,” Daniel later reiterated...
...Goodbye Kitty By VALENTINE DING...
...local mandarins who still wield immeasurable power. It's at the county level that taxation and police matters are decided. And although county councils are technically elected, the slates are carefully prepared and "the Communist Party almost always finds a way to assert control over them," says Ding Xueliang, a professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology who researches local governments...