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Others are also finding ways to generate income and create green solutions for the grasslands and, perhaps, for the rest of China - a country that needs clean energy more than any other. A team at the Inner Mongolia Agricultural University is working in parts of the province near the Gobi Desert, planting sweet sorghum, a kind of grass that can be harvested by locals and sold for biofuel production. The plan dovetails with Beijing's ambitious goal of generating 2 million tons of bio-ethanol a year by 2010, and 15% of its energy from renewable resources by 2020. (Seventy...
This must have happened to you. You and a companion have just seen a dramatic movie. One of you is still choking back sobs. The other has eyes as dry as the Gobi. The unmoved one says, "I can't believe you were so gullible as to fall for that pap." The teary one blurts out, "If that film didn't touch your heart, maybe you don't have one." Relationships have sundered on this primal wrangle: whether or not one surrenders to the thrall of a movie weepie...
...with up to 15,000 runners pounding through a choice of scores of events each year. But for those in search of roads less jogged, Asia is beginning to offer its own share of long marches?from the Lake Saroma 100-km run in northern Japan to China's Gobi March, a six-stage, 250-km painfest that locals call the "Race of No Return." But the best of them all, for combining suffering and scenic beauty, is probably the annual Mongolia Sunrise to Sunset?a 100-km, waterside race around spectacular Lake Khovsgol and the surrounding national park, scheduled...
...with up to 15,000 runners pounding through a choice of scores of events each year. But for those in search of roads less jogged, Asia is beginning to offer its own share of long marches - from the Lake Saroma 100-km run in northern Japan to China's Gobi March, a six-stage, 250-km painfest that locals call the "Race of No Return." But the best of them all, for combining suffering and scenic beauty, is probably the annual Mongolia Sunrise to Sunset - a 100-km, waterside race around spectacular Lake Khovsgol and the surrounding national park, scheduled...
...Growth doesn't necessarily translate into profit." During a February luncheon in Hong Kong, Shan shocked the crowd by challenging Nobel-prizewinning economist Amartya Sen for praising Mao's "barefoot doctor" program as a sound way to provide health care to the poor. Shan, recalling his experience in the Gobi, noted that the government trapped people in the service in deplorable living conditions. Says he: "If there's a record that needs setting straight, I'll set it straight." Though no longer barefoot, Shan may be helping China more than ever...